Energy - A New Vertical Market for Drupal
( During the Fall of 2014 we submitted a response to the GSA RFI Green Proving Ground program. It required a “Title” so we called it “Open Energy - A New Paradigm for Energy Dashboards”. The GSA program leverages its real estate portfolio to evaluate innovative sustainable building technologies. Our objective was to promote the means to extract additional energy savings from real estate portfolios by simply integrating two very common ‘open’ technologies, BACnet and Drupal. The RFI (Request For Information) required a series of answers to a series of pretty specifc questions. This FAQ presents our response in pretty much its entirety with the intent to promote Energy as A New Vertical Market for Drupal. )
(ref: Energy - A New Vertical Market for Drupal )- What is the Technology Category?
- What is a short, descriptive and informative title for your technology.?
- What is it?
- How does your technology work?
- How does it compare to like technologies currently in use?
- What is the value proposition of this technology?
- What are the technical risks of using this technology?
- What is the current state of this technology's commercialization?
- How will this technology reach broad-based adoption?
- What are the major barriers to widespread deployment of your technology?
- Does the technology have independent laboratory or validated performance data using industry standard testing protocols?
- Is there information on real-world deploymnet or test cases?
- What is the projected simple payback period ?
- What are the details and scenario associated with the Projected Simple Payback Period calculation?
- What is required to achieve the benefits of your technology cost effectively?
- What is the ideal "proof-of-concept" project to get started?
- Are there web links to help explain your technology?