Commercial Buildings Research and Development

Commercial Buildings Research & Development
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Automated Diagnostics and Prognostics

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Motivation / Problem Statement

Automated tools have the potential to reduce the cost and skill level associated with detecting and diagnosing operational faults and problems in buildings.

Activities / Approach

Enhance and extend LBNL's model-based diagnostics toolbox, assess commercialization pathways for diagnostic tools.

Accomplishments / Outcomes

Most enhancements nearly ready for testing, preliminary conclusions on commercialization.

Future / Follow-on

Diagnostics for building control systems.

Relationship to Other Projects

STAC, Annex 47

Principal Investigator

  • Philip Haves
  • (510) 486-6512
  • with
  • Peng Xu
  • (510) 486-4549

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