Carnegie Mellon University teamed up with partner OSIsoft to learn the language of buildings. It turns out, buildings talk a lot – about lights, ventilation, air quality, all sorts of things – but it took this team, plus Microsoft Power BI to “translate” what they’re saying. With data from hundreds of devices, the University was able to make buildings, and the people who work in them, more energy efficient. With OSIsoft’s PI System in place, energy use dropped, as did the University’s costs and environmental impact. Read the full story here: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/buildings-that-speak

1. Buildings that Speak
To save energy, sometimes all you need is a translator.

2. Learning Energy Efficiency's Language
Imagine if a building could talk about how it was operating and the ways in
which it could be more energy efficient.
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—a school founded on
technology—its Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics decided to
focus on what it knew the most about: buildings. They partnered with OSIsoft
to bring the building’s systems into a single data infrastructure. Using the
OSIsoft PI System, they connected automation system, lights, ventilation, air
quality, weather, and security data sources in order to show energy usage
information in real time. Using PI Integrator, Carnegie Mellon connected to
Azure Machine Learning for predictive analytics. They also implemented Power
BI for Office 365 to give all university employees a way to see information
about the building in an accessible way

3. If science fiction has taught us anything, it’s that
talking robots will control the human race.
The predictive analytics enabled infrastructure at CMU built on top of
the OSIsoft PI System and Azure ML helped people understand that
everyone-not just the monitoring experts-could participate in making
the building more efficient. Identifying and acting on faulty equipment
was suddenly easier than ever. As a result of tapping into the building's
data, presenting it in a comprehensive way, and changing behaviors
energy consumption in the laboratory building alone dropped by
nearly one-third.

4. PARTNER
CUSTOMER
SOLUTION
TECHNOLOGY
OSIsoft
• Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
• Microsoft Power BI for Office 365
• OSIsoft PI System
• OSIsoft PI Integrator
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
The OSIsoft PI system deployed at
CMU integrates building automation
systems as well as lights, air quality,
weather, and security data sources; PI
System is connected via PI Integrator
to Azure ML and Power BI for Office
365, providing everyday users a high-
level overview of building operations
and energy consumption patterns that
can be monitored through real-time
dashboards with PI Coresight and the
Power BI Dashboard.
Behind The Scenes

5. OSIsoft provides an open infrastructure to connect
sensor-based data, operations and people to enable
real-time intelligence. Their flagship product, the PI
System, enables businesses to capture and leverage
sensor-based data across the enterprise to improve
efficiency, sustainability, quality and safety. Discover
how a single data infrastructure can transform business
operations.
OSIsoft gains high
visibility in the
Microsoft Partner
Network
Microsoft Partner
2014 Partner of the Year Winner
Cloud : Business Intelligence

6. EXPLORE THE LIBRARY
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