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About Toby Considine
Scheduling, building systems, electric vehicles, and the smart
grid--coordinating time, space, and energy--are the basis for the third
industrial revolution. Toby Considine works with numerous groups to define
and explore how the internet of things will meet the internet of people and
e-commerce.
Through his company TC9, Inc., Toby Considine advises building owners and
engineering companies on business strategies for enterprise-responsive
buildings. He participates in several industry-led international groups
defining the interactions between the enterprise, capital assets, building
systems, and the power grid. His work is based upon decades of experience in
IT infrastructure as well as in maintenance management and building
operations. In 2009, Mr. Considine was a sub-contractor on national projects
to define the NIST Smart Grid roadmap and to oversee its development.
TC9 also works with early stage ventures in smart energy and smart systems,
particularly those that will operate at the borders of e-commerce, energy,
the internet of people and the internet of things. Mr Considine is also a
leader in several national standards efforts in buildings and energy,
including oBIX, EMIX, and Energy Interoperation. You can find out more a
bout working with TC9 at www.tcnine.com
You can read Toby’s blog at
www.NewDaedalus.com
Columns
Smart Buildings share schedules with Business and Smart Grids Using WS-Calendar for scheduling things
Smart Buildings & Smart Energy: the Integration Challenge
Doing things at the right time We created WS-Calendar to create, share, invoke, adjust, and track coordinated response between domains and organizations.
The Integration Barrier to Smart Energy These specifications will move the markets in energy management systems into improved interfaces, for users, for enterprises, and for energy marketers.
Microgrids and Smart Energy Microgrids, whether virtual or real, are an important organizing concept of smart energy.
Buildings must get smarter because Smart Grids will be worse The grid’s reduced safety margins make even moderate adoption of intermittent energy sources risky. By every measure, the quality of the North American grid will get worse. That’s the plan.
Idle Thoughts on Smart Grids Musings from the GridWise Architectural Council, Orlando, 2010
Smart Grids and Distributed Energy create opportunities for Diversity in Energy Storage There is no reason at all to limit our concepts of grid energy storage and buffers to electricity and batteries—and many opportunities open up if we do not.
Privacy, the Essential Service for Smart Buildings Privacy issues and privacy concerns became front and center at the Grid-Interop and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).
Managed Energy, Collaborative Energy, and Autonomous Load There are two fundamentally different approaches to Energy Interoperation: managed energy and collaborative energy.
Smart Buildings and Market Information Enable Collaborative Energy Collaboration requires able partners; smart grids require smart buildings able to make intelligent decisions about energy use.
Distributed Energy Resources and Storage With the big smart grid standards roadmap conference coming up in Washington on the third and fourth, I am going to stick with writing about what this means for buildings.
Intelligent Buildings talk to the Smart Grid Last month, the National Institute for standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled the Interim Smart Grid Interoperability Roadmap. (http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/) The roadmap defines the smart grid and how it interacts with is smart end nodes.
Conversation between Intelligent Buildings and Smart Energy As I write this, the Interim Roadmap for the Smart Grid has not been published. What follows is my view of how this area will develop.
SGIX – Smart Grid Information Exchange Some feel that direct control of tomorrow’s smart buildings must be in the hands of the utilities. I feel that that building owners must be in control.
Cyber-security, Smart Buildings, and the Smart Grid We went to a distributed approach for Enterprise Building Management System EBMS, something that looks nothing like the approaches of traditional building systems and of SCADA.
Energy Interoperability Standards: Smart Buildings, Smart Grid
Energy, Innovation, and E-Tech Current assumptions of a paternalistic utility providing all control will not be sustained. New models of loose integration and symmetric interactions are required.
Working with the Wind in Chicago Next week, there will be a lot of wind surrounding the AHR Expo, the largest conference anywhere dedicated to the efficient movement of air, and thereby the biggest energy-related conference of the year.
Standards and Opportunities when Smart Buildings meet the Smart Grid The goal of the new standards efforts is to support new markets that we do not today know or understand.
The Lie in Demand—Response We encourage only the crudest, least effective energy savings, while denying the market the energy signals that would cause better.
Buildings, Emergency Response, Energy, and Situation Awareness The NG911 system, or Next Generation 911 upports better interaction. Even buildings, and building systems, might act as 911 operators.
Privacy, Price and the Cost of Control As we seek to extend Demand / Response to more systems in the house, we run into what we might call Knowledge Problems, problems of diversity and understanding.
It’s all too cheap If we are not going to manage our devices, our systems, and our energy, who will?
Clouds and Rain Cloud Computing is a name for putting computing services, whether traditional, such as CRM applications, or modern, such as SaaS, on computers up in the wider network.
Newton's Fall Efforts to solve traditional building-grid interactions as command and control interactions will fail if they leave out the human and social factors.
Stop throwing it away – Energy Recycling Once you start thinking about waste heat as a resource, it will lead a long way from where you started.
Service Performance, Compliance, and Business Responsiveness
Just as in the rest of business computing, open
source is coming to building control systems. Open interfaces such as oBIX
make open source programming effective.
Rent Seeking is Crippling Building System Markets Rent seeking is defined as when an individual, organization, or firm seeks to make money by manipulating control of the economic environment rather than by making a profit through trade and production of value.
SOB - the Service Oriented Building My passion is web services interfaces to the engineered world to let embedded systems be full participants in the enterprise.
Articles
The Price of Energy You cannot understand price unless you understand the product you are buying.
Transacted Energy End Games It starts today, with demand response, and continues with transacted energy.
Blue, Buildings, and Energy The shift from green to blue has started.
SmartGrid Domain Experts Workgroup NIST Notes on August 5, 2008 Meeting
oBIX is alive and kicking… The people who know oBIX best have been going out and doing things with oBIX. Many of these projects are large.
Professional Information
Chairman oBIX (Open Building Information Xchange)
Toby Considine has been working with enterprise applications and the integration of embedded control systems for 20 years. As a Systems Specialist in Facilities Services at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Considine has real world experience with the poor security, poor interoperability, and brittle integrations of last-generation protocols. Toby used this experience to drive his work with oBIX, and with issues of integrating buildings with larger systems and each other using enterprise-grade protocols. This experience is very pertinent to the issues faced by the GridWise Architectural Council.
Before coming to the University, Mr. Considine worked to integrate other silo processes into the enterprise for companies including multinational architecture, engineering, computer, and consumer goods companies. Toby’s dirty secret is his participation in a large free ad-supported public access computer network a decade before the DotCom boom (and bust). He began tinkering with computers using an acoustic coupler and wrote device drivers for some of the first microcomputers sold.
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