AMES, IOWA—Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. has expanded its sustainability product offering to include the industry leading educational touchscreen kiosk software, GreenTouchscreen, developed by Quality Attributes Software, Inc. (QAS).
Siemens selected QAS technology so that it could offer its customers a powerful but accessible interface that displays energy consumption data and real-time interactive analysis. By presenting live building energy consumption data on the GreenTouchscreen kiosk in the foyer of the building, Siemens can reveal “hidden” energy conservation measures to building occupants. As people become aware of the energy they use and better educated as to its environmental impact, they just might change their behavior. Ultimately the information can help people understand the role they can play in saving energy in the spaces where they learn, work or live.
Through sophisticated integration to the Siemens APOGEE building automation system, the GreenTouchscreen software translates dense building operational data into clear, relevant information that helps even the casual observer understand a variety of energy and sustainability related concepts. Examples of features include showing how much energy a building is currently using, how much a building has saved over time, and what that savings means in carbon kept from the atmosphere, pounds of coal or even hours of playing X-Box. GreenTouchscreen software is implemented at facilities throughout the nation offering other highly interactive material about what makes a building green, what organizations did for each LEED credit, and animations of those hidden green systems.
Quality Attributes Software has also expanded its software applications to include iBPortal (Intelligent Building Portal), an enterprise-wide powerful and flexible dashboard tool for executive and operational level reporting and analysis. Siemens is working with QAS to pilot iBPortal for select customers.
