5. What is innovative about your technology relative to incumbent or comparable technologies currently in use?
Summarize the unique, recently developed or designed aspects of your technology. Describe what makes this technology game-changing or disruptive to the current state of the industry. (Limit 1000 characters)
Open Energy leverages BACnet and Drupal to create a new paradigm for free, open, community supported energy dashboards.
Presently, energy dashboards are available in many costly proprietary forms. Open Energy is game-changing and will disrupt the current state of the industry by unleashing this technology to the world for free.
BACnet technology is an American national standard, a European standard, a national standard in more than 30 countries, and an ISO global standard. The open protocol is supported and maintained by an active ASHRAE community.
Drupal is a free open source content management platform powering millions of websites including WhiteHouse.gov and Energy.gov. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Free, community supported Open Energy dashboards, embedded into the normal on-line experience of building occupants, will lead to behavioral change, improve energy use patterns and help drive technological change.