ABSTRACT

From the utility distribution standpoint, Yale University is divided into three areas: Central, Science and Medical School areas. The Medical School area consists of Yale School of Medicine (YSM), with it's own management of operations and maintenance, and Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) - an independent health care organization adjacent to or sharing space with YSM. Utilities in the Central and Science areas - namely electrical, steam/condensate and chill water are provided to the buildings from the Central Co-generation Plant; steam and chill water for YSM/YHNN are generated in the Sterling Power Plant, electricity is purchased from the local utility company, United Illuminating (UI). The Yale Utilities Department manages the respective generation and distribution systems.

The objective of the Central Building Utilities Metering System (CBUMS) is to provide real time monitoring, alarm reporting, on line diagnostics and report generation for billing, energy management and engineering relevant to the utilities systems. CBUMS is an integral part of the Yale real time facilities network called Maxnet. The CBUMS meters installed throughout the buildings communicate with their servers via serial communication and industry standard communication drivers. The servers reside on the Campus Ethernet backbone, sharing information with other servers connected to Maxnet. Engineers and managers within the Facilities Department have direct access to all information residing on the Maxnet. Clients within or outside Yale can access the data available on the Maxnet by Netscape browser. 

Interested parties can look up the information
via the Internet.

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You can access Yale Facilities real time automation and information network's (Maxnet) public server by clicking on the following address:

http://pub-max.facilities.yale.edu/Maxweb/Viktor.htm 

Accessing the public server will allow you:

• to view Viktor's complete article,

• to view on line real time metering information from the utilities metering,
  system (chilled water, condensate and electricity),

• to view on line real time information from Yale Cogeneration and Power Plants,

• to have access to Yale University home page, Yale Facilities home page,

• or browse through the campus using the Campus Map.

If you would like to read Viktor Boed's  complete article it is available in PDF (834 kb) 
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Biography - Viktor Boed, CEM

Viktor has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University in Brno, Czech Republic. As a consulting engineer he has designed automation systems in Europe and USA. He also taught courses in electrical engineering and controls in Europe and Cairo, Egypt.

Boed came to the US in 1979 and worked as a product manager and senior research engineer for Johnson Controls, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He joined Yale University in 1983 as Manager of Building Automation Systems and became Manager of Plant Engineering in 1989, where he is involved today in design and implementation of automation systems for buildings, power plants, maintenance management systems, utilities metering systems and their networking. The Plant Engineering is also involved in implementation of energy conservation projects, and review and approval of capital projects for the University.

Boed is an active member of the Association of Energy Engineers and started the Connecticut Chapter of AEE. He is a recipient of the Energy Manager of the Year and the regional Energy Engineer of the Year awards, and is frequent speaker on at World Energy Engineering Congresses and other professional conferences. He is also a member of ASHRAE and was on the committee that developed the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135/1995, BACnet (a data communications protocol for building automation and control networks). 

Viktor has published numerous technical papers in various trade magazines. He has also published three books:

• "Efficient DDC Systems Implementation" (1996)
• "DDC Applications Engineering" (1998)
• "Networking and Integration of Facilities Automation Systems" (1999)

The books are available from CRC Press or amazon.com.

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