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Connected Campus

Team 8: Tori Rice, Prafulla Badeanahalli, Kevin Logan

How can we help Indiana University get closer to leaving the grid by the year 2030?

The exploration of our project was guided by this specific framing of the problem space.

We started by learning how IU is approaching sustainability and learning about new, greener technologies that will soon be available.

Our primary research goals were:Learn about problems in Indiana University’s sustainability plansUnderstand how buildings become energy efficient or lack efficiencyLearn about the problems facility and operation workers deal with on a daily basisExplore new emerging tools and methods used to assist in the practice of sustainabilityUnderstand how GE Current and Predix can help offer support for sustainable practices

Kyle StepanskiFactory Worker

Tom YoungOperations Engineer

To learn, we interviewed three people and gathered secondary research.

Bill BrownDirector of Sustainability

Indiana University

● New technologies are expensive now, but will become cost effective in 10 - 15 years

● Campus tradition obstructs innovation ○ Bureaucracy prevents the implementation of many ideas

● Government Policies impact sustainable practices

○ Certain states offer tax rebates, incentives, etc

● Software tools are being used to simulate how sustainable buildings can be build

○ Example: SketchUp with plugins

INTERVIEWS

● IU operates on a 10 year sustainability plan○ Can’t adopt new technologies unless they are proven to

demonstrate a positive ROI within 10 years

● Lack of communication amongst groups○ Engineering, Operations, Administration, Facilities

● Lack of energy transfer between buildings● The use of combined energy source units can

help reduce energy loss○ If you create an energy unit that produces heat and power

at the same time, you can reduce energy use by 52% and carbon emissions by 37%

SECONDARY

KEY FINDINGS

After becoming educated on the problem domain, we began exploring ideas.

Brainstorming sessions were completed to explore various ideas.

Affinity Diagramming helped form organization and recognize patterns amongst ideas.

Sketches were used to visually articulate our concepts to each other.

We narrowed down to three specific opportunity areas.

Energy RecommendationsAwareness Safety

Our Vision

We want to help IU leave the grid by gradually improving their energy efficiency and building an infrastructure that connects the campus’ power supply to renewable energy.

2020 2030Building Sensors Solar Bike Lanes Connect Campus Energy

We will implement a strategy that can start in 2020 and gradually evolve into IU’s sustainable campus of the future.

2025

2020

We would install GE hardware sensors in all the buildings. IU has many older buildings, so would be starting with those first. From our research, we learned that having a poor building envelope leads to energy waste.

With sensors, we are able to detect any issues in the building’s infrastructure, such as: quality of air, radiation, electromagnetic feedback, leaks in walls, floors, roofs, fenestrations and doors.Building Sensors

The collected data will be used with GE’s Predix to create a mobile app, called “Connected Campus”

This app will have an assortment of features. The data can be used to pinpoint where waste or hazards are coming from. Predictions can be made to recommend when to update the building infrastructures.

2020

Solar Bike Lanes

We would then install solar panels on the bike lanes throughout campus.

This would build an infrastructure for transferring energy and to start powering smaller components such as traffic lights and lampposts with renewable energy.

2025

Connect Campus Energy

Finally, we will connect the solar bike lanes with the buildings on campus. This will create a connected campus that can transfer/store energy between buildings that are least efficient, decreasing energy waste.

We will install solar batteries in centralized buildings to store energy for future use. These batteries will be more affordable by 2030.

2030

The collected data will be used with the “Connected Campus” mobile app.

With a connected grid, the data will be used to predict adverse driving conditions on the roads, sense danger of students, or just inform when repairs are needed for specific panels.

2030

Operations Administration Engineer

USER GROUPS

● Become aware of the energy being used across campus

● Obtain a detailed analysis of each building’s energy usage and hazards

● Use the recommended building changes feature to guide the installation of energy efficient components

● Become aware of the energy being used across campus

● Become aware of hazards and health risks in each building or street

● Use the predictions of hazards to inform policy making decisions

● Energy reports will be used to guide budgetary planning and spending

● Become aware of the energy being used across campus

● Use the data and prediction of hazards to come up with solutions to combat potential problems

● Communicate easier with administration and operations, via a centralized data platform

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BENEFITSA 10 year plan to help IU gradually move towards a sustainable campus

Decrease energy waste by detecting and predicting failures and hazards in the current and future infrastructure

Reduce energy costs by introducing an adaptable, connected campus energy grid

Our solution will help IU gradually become a sustainable campus and easily adapt new trends in green technology.

Thank You

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Research

Who is Tesla’s Home Battery For?:http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/who-is-teslas-home-battery-for/?_r=0

Big Data from The Built Environment: Azam Khan and Kasper Hornbæk. 2011. Big data from the built environment. In Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Research in the large (LARGE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 29-32.

Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid: Will Simm, Maria Angela Ferrario, Adrian Friday, Peter Newman, Stephen Forshaw, Mike Hazas, and Alan Dix. 2015. Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1965-1974.

Assets

Sustainabilty icon:http://sustainability.umw.edu/dot/files/2011/06/UMW_environment_dot.jpg

IU icon:http://www.iub.edu/~collegia/images/block_IU_large.jpg

GE icon:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/General_Electric_logo.svg/1000px-General_Electric_logo.svg.png

All other assets were found at:https://thenounproject.com/ Many thanks to the various users on their website! Especially: Blake Thompson, Misirlou, Andre Luiz Gallo, Luis Prado, Robert Beerwerth, Creative Stall, Dimitros Stamatis, Diego Naive, Vicons Design, Aha-Soft,

RESOURCES