%0 Conference Paper
%A Guanjing Lin
%A Eliot Crowe
%A Valerie Nibler
%A Jessica Granderson
%B The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue
%D 2022
%G eng
%T Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility
%8 07/2022
%X <p>Energy management and information systems (EMIS) are combined hardware and software products that comprise a<br />broad range of analytics and/or optimal control functionality to manage commercial building energy use, covering<br />three main types of functionality: energy information system focus on interval meter data analysis, fault detection<br />and diagnostics focus on system or equipment-level data analysis, and automated system optimization focus on<br />optimal control. More and more researchers and building owners seek to field test and pilot EMIS. However, the<br />studies were conducted differently with disparate design and metrics. The field validation of EMIS also facing the<br />challenges of qualification of non-energy benefits and linkage between information analysis and energy savings.<br />In response, this paper presents a standardized field testing protocol for EMIS assessment based on literature review<br />and stakeholder interviews. The protocol provides a standardized approach for assessing EMIS’ energy and non-<br />energy benefits. It balances rigor and flexibility by specifying a set of required and optional evaluation metrics that<br />can be tailored to the needs of technology evaluators, including energy savings, demand reduction, cost<br />effectiveness, operation and maintenance improvement, capability to enable efficiency, etc. With this protocol,<br />consistent evaluation results can be generalized across multiple studies to support the adoption and further<br />advancement of EMIS.</p>