Campus Dashboards
The Building Energy Dashboard Project
This website is a partially complete functioning prototype. It has been designed to make resource usage data for UC Berkeley available to everyone on campus. It currently has monthly electricity and water usage for all building dating from 2007 back to the 1970's. There are also about 10 buildings with high resolution and near real-time data.
Note that this site is very much still under construction and that many of the elements you see are placeholders. To see current high resolution data, select a building from the black "buildings" pulldown at the top of the page or you can search for a specific building.
This website is a partially complete functioning prototype. It has been designed to make resource usage data for UC Berkeley available to everyone on campus. It currently has monthly electricity and water usage for all building dating from 2007 back to the 1970's. There are also about 10 buildings with high resolution and near real-time data.
Note that this site is very much still under construction and that many of the elements you see are placeholders. To see current high resolution data, select a building from the black "buildings" pulldown at the top of the page or you can search for a specific building.
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The Building Energy Dashboard Project
This tool makes available resource usage data for buildings on the UC Berkeley campus. It is intented to help raise awareness about resource use on campus, and the facilitate operational and behavioral changes related to energy use.
Soda Hall is the computer science building. It is the only classroom building on campus with showers. Completed in August 1994, Soda Hall was a $35.5 million project, funded entirely by private gifts to the College of Engineering.
This tool makes available resource usage data for buildings on the UC Berkeley campus. It is intented to help raise awareness about resource use on campus, and the facilitate operational and behavioral changes related to energy use.
Soda Hall is the computer science building. It is the only classroom building on campus with showers. Completed in August 1994, Soda Hall was a $35.5 million project, funded entirely by private gifts to the College of Engineering.
Current Berkeley Consumption (Fake for prototype)
3213 kW/H (fake data)
Check how much power your building uses (Future feature)
$1234 / hour (fake data)
Find out how much your building costs (Future feature)
123 lbs of CO2 / hour (fake data)
Calculate how much CO2 you create (Future feature)
The Green Building Research Center at UC Berkeley has developed a Building Energy Dashboard to provide users with historical and real-time performance metrics for UC Berkeley campus buildings. The system will consist of two main types of information: (1) monthly representations of energy, water, and other metrics, and (2) real-time displays of data from buildings for which network accessible data is available.
The Dashboard enables benchmarking and automated comparisons between periods of time, and/or between campus buildings. The ultimate goal of this project is to help shape the behavior and resource use decisions of campus faculty, students, and staff in creating a more sustainable campus. We released this beta-version of the dashboard at the CACS Summit on April 27, 2007.
The Dashboard enables benchmarking and automated comparisons between periods of time, and/or between campus buildings. The ultimate goal of this project is to help shape the behavior and resource use decisions of campus faculty, students, and staff in creating a more sustainable campus. We released this beta-version of the dashboard at the CACS Summit on April 27, 2007.
One of the critical goals outlined in the 2005 Campus Sustainability Assessment is to provide energy usage feedback and education, and to publicize energy consumption data in readily available venues. The Building Energy Dashboard provides building performance data in an accessible and effective form via the Internet, and has the ability to compare energy usage across time periods and buildings.
The Building Energy Dashboard can inform the campus community about the buildings they inhabit, educating users about energy efficiency on a personal and effective scale. The GBRC hopes that providing access to real-time data may inspire buildings, departments, and dormitories to set goals and/or establish competitions to reduce energy usage.