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The Open Energy Information System (OpenEIS) is both a toolkit for analyzing building energy information, and a platform that supports general data analysis applications.
- OpenEIS as a building energy analysis toolkit
- OpenEIS as a platform for data analysis
- How to use OpenEIS
- Links to further documentation
OpenEIS is an open-source software tool for analyzing building energy and operational data, to identify improvement opportunities.
Continuous monitoring and analysis can increase whole building energy efficiency by up to 20%. However, most managers of building space conditions and energy consumption do not have cost-effective access to commercial tools and algorithms for identifying potential savings. Conversely, diagnostic methods developed by the National Laboratories, by university researchers, and by publicly funded research projects do not have a common distribution path by which to put new tools in the hands of energy managers.
In response, OpenEIS was designed to provide standard methods for authoring, sharing, testing, using, and improving algorithms for operational building energy efficiency. The OpenEIS strategy is aimed at getting the market to validate and implement state-of-the-art analytical and diagnostic algorithms. This in turn should create market demand for control system manufacturers and integrators serving small and medium commercial customers, as well as for commercial tool offerings.
## OpenEIS platformOpenEIS provides such a set of tools, bundled as a set of building-specific applications under the OpenEIS platform. However, OpenEIS also provides the framework needed to build such platforms for other types of analysis tools. TODO: PNNL should fill this in to reflect their vision of how platform would be repurposed.
## How to use OpenEISTODO: Talk about people can download and use as-is, can extend with own algorithms internally, or can use to contribute own algorithms to public (is that last bit still on the plate, or does it still need to be built out?).
## DocumentationThis wiki contains further documentation for OpenEIS. Documentation is grouped broadly into:
- TODO: Add user documentation, on GUI.
- Documentation on selected building energy applications that ship with OpenEIS.
- Developer-oriented documentation.
- Using PostgreSQL with OpenEIS