"Energy Management at a Campus-Wide Scale: From End Devices to Entire Buildings" by Yuvraj Agarwal

"Energy Management at a Campus-Wide Scale: From End Devices to Entire Buildings" by Yuvraj Agarwal, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Engineering

In this talk Dr. Agarwal will first give a brief overview about the UCSD micro-grid and how his group is using it as a "Living Laboratory" for cutting-edge energy management research. He will then highlight some of the research projects the team have been doing as part of the Synergy and MESL labs in reducing the energy consumption of buildings across the UCSD campus. Dr. Agarwal will first present the "Energy Dashboard", which allows measurement and visualization of energy usage at multiple scales: from a campus-wide level, to highlighting the energy use of individual buildings and finally to individual devices plugged into wall outlets. Using the Energy Dashboard he will identify where all the energy is consumed within a modern mixed-use building, the CSE department, highlighting the opportunities for energy savings. Finally the Research Scientist will outline several techniques that his group has successfully implemented and deployed across a real building -- from "SleepServer" that allows computers to talk in their sleep, to smart HVAC systems that use real-time occupancy information to control building cooling and ventilation -- that demonstrate significant real-world energy savings and get the campus closer to the utopic goal of Net-Zero Energy-Use Buildings (NZEB).

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