June 2010 |
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Lucid Design Group Announces First Social Network For Building Resourse Use
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Building Dashboard Network Enables Facilities to
Compare Energy and Water Use in Real Time
OAKLAND, Calif., April 27, 2010 – Lucid Design Group, Inc., an award-winning
provider of real-time energy monitoring and display systems for buildings, today
announced Building Dashboard® Network™, a new product which enables people to
view, compare and share building energy and water use information on the web.
“We’re launching a social network for the buildings in which we live and work,”
said Michael Murray, Lucid’s chief executive officer. “Now buildings, companies
and schools will feature their own profile pages with real-time energy and water
use data. You can easily search for buildings, compare performance and set up
energy reduction competitions across the Building Dashboard Network.”
“When people have timely information on resource use – particularly in
comparison to others – they make significant behavioral changes that reduce
consumption and result in tangible financial savings and environmental benefit,”
Murray added.
Over the past six years, Lucid has installed its monitoring and display systems
in hundreds of buildings across the U.S., including commercial sites and in
residence halls and academic facilities at major universities. Resource use
feedback and real-time energy use competitions have helped institutions reduce
consumption by 5 to 20 percent on a long-term basis.
Lucid’s simple, easy-to-understand interface provides real-time information on
electricity, water and natural gas use, as well as the performance of renewable
energy systems. Data are interpreted and displayed on graphs and animated gauges
– showing kilowatt-hours, cost and carbon dioxide emissions – on the web or on
touchscreen displays in buildings.
“Many years of ongoing research and expertise in the field have helped make
Lucid Design Group a long-standing leader in the commercial market,” said
Murray. “With the introduction of Building Dashboard Network, we’re making
real-time resource use exciting and social for thousands more commercial and
institutional buildings.”
Building Dashboard Network is based on Lucid’s pioneering Building Dashboard®
product and includes exciting new apps and widgets, increased interactivity and
open sharing of resource use data. Building Dashboard Network also integrates
with Facebook and Twitter to post updates to personal profile pages and feeds.
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New features include: Energy apps and widgets for making comparisons across end
uses, buildings, communities and groups; nationwide energy competitions and
community comparisons; real-time budget tracking; network-wide searching;
streaming video; discussion feeds; targeted green tips and more. Green and LEED-certified
buildings benefit from showcasing sustainable features and comparing performance
to similar non-green buildings. Third-party applications like Google Maps are
also integrated into Building Dashboard Network.
Building Dashboard Network will be used in the 2010 Campus Conservation
Nationals, which pits more than 40 of the country’s leading universities against
one another in a nationwide energy reduction competition in November.
Lucid is also working with smart meter providers and utilities to make the
technology available to residential customers. Several pilot projects are
already underway.
This newest version of Building Dashboard is available for pre-order now and
will be officially released to the public early this summer. Pricing will be
provided on request. A product tour can be found on Lucid’s website,
www.luciddesigngroup.com.
About Lucid Design Group
Lucid Design Group, Inc. is a privately held cleantech software company, founded
in 2004, and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach,
inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over
the past six years, Lucid’s team has endeavored to make resource use visible,
accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization
and communication tools to reduce and manage their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies,
community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based
Building Dashboard technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive
Building Dashboard user interface allows occupants to connect personal
electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that
take place within buildings.
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