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October 7, 2008
Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-09-09 | By Betsy Harter
Enterprises can take this idea one step further by using the LDAP structure to control lighting, heating, and cooling in the workspace. "Half of the time, employees are in meetings or in other places," Turner notes. "Using the IT infrastructure, companies can understand how a space is being used, forecast likely loads in building, control big mechanical equipment, and make climate decisions, including whether to heat and cool a space or not. When the last person logs off, we know the building is not occupied, and we can reduce energy by 30 percent."
The savings from such efficiencies can be enormous. Bank of America, for example, expects to cut as much as half its energy usage in 3,300 branches using "intelligent" building automation technology.
"Buildings consume 40 percent of the energy we use in the United States today, and 30 percent of that is wasted through inefficient systems, which include poor lighting control and practices such as running heat and air conditioning at night when no one is in the building," says Brandi McManus, global business development manager of energy services for Swedish building automation provider TAC.
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