Raley Field is a unique and challenging set of buildings and environments. The facilities have the needs of an office building and a hotel, as well as the special needs of a data center and huge heat generating equipment (like an enormous scoreboard). To manage these diverse needs and physically spread out locations, COAC delivered a solution that provides energy savings, full, flexible and immediate controls from anywhere at a very affordable price. The solution was the Pelican Wireless System.

The Pelican system automatically creates an advanced mesh network where all the thermostats communicate with each other and the gateway simultaneously. This enables thermostats to be controlled even if they are not directly connected to the gateway.

The system allows owners and property managers to access a simple-to-use, dynamic and powerful management platform for their building with full diagnostic and trend data right on any internet enabled device, including their smart phones. This is a user-friendly solution to more enhanced building controls at a relatively budget price.

For more information, watch a live demo or to see if the Pelican System is the right solution for your building, contact COAC's John McAlpine at 916.381.4611.

Organizations spend a lot of money deploying energy efficiency systems and "tuning" buildings to peak efficiency. These, of course, are good steps to take. In a sense, though, they are just the beginning.

The key is to follow those moves with common sense steps that maintain those initial gains. The logical reality is that a building that is working at optimal efficiency at one point in time won't continue to be unless great care is taken it to make course corrections along the way.

The article estimates that 20 percent to 30 percent of inefficiencies "are purely from operational pieces that have nothing to do with capital improvements." This is good news for building managers. The author points out three things that "go out of whack" in building operations:  1. Building Scheduling,  2. Peak Demand Management, and 3. Building Changes.  READ MORE