University Latest Institution to Implement Innovative Energy Management Project with Triacta Technology

Smart sub-metering technology used for monitoring makes service tenants fully aware of energy consumption

April 5, 2010: Ottawa, ON: Unique energy management technology from Triacta® Power Technologies Inc. is riding a wave of change in facilities management particularly at large institutions where property managers are looking to reduce energy costs, as well as seeking ways and means of communicating costs to their third party service tenants, such as cafeteria operators.

The University of Ottawa, a landmark institution in Canada’s Capital City with a total enrolment of over 38,000, is the latest institution to tap Triacta technology for the energy management purposes. The University of Toronto, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Rainbow District School Board in Sudbury, Ontario and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board have all recently deployed Triacta sub-metering technology for building monitoring.

Triacta is installing their PowerHawk® multi-circuit smart meters on the UOttawa campus focusing on the Central Kitchen and Servery at the University Centre. The technology will monitor the electricity used by all the major kitchen appliances, exhaust fans, air circulation units, freight and passenger elevators, as well as lighting and wall outlets.

Because of their ability to integrate with meters used for other services, the PowerHawk meters will also monitor the gas consumption, energy (BTU) used by the HVAC system, both hot water and chilled water, as well as volume of domestic hot and cold water used in the kitchen.

The data is collected with intervals as granular as five minutes and pushed to the Web-based PowerHawk Manager server at the same intervals. Property managers can review the data from their desk top computers via the Web. They can then use the data to communicate costs to their third party service tenants, making them aware of their actual energy consumed. Tenants are expected to respond by initiating energy conservation programs.

“By deploying PowerHawks strategically on our campus, and using the PowerHawk Manager Service as a management dashboard and for cost communication, we can reduce our costs by enabling those directly responsible for energy consumption to be aware of the costs of their actions. We can also identify degrading equipment and inappropriate ratcheting of building system settings. The PowerHawk meters’ ability to directly connect to IP networks and contact the management platform in the ‘cloud’ makes it easy to deploy in our distributed, urban campus” said Pierre De Gagné, Assistant Director of Physical Resources Services at the University of Ottawa.

About Triacta
Triacta develops and sells revenue-grade, smart submetering products that enable facility managers, property owners, institutions and enterprises to inventory, benchmark, verify, bill for and reduce energy use. All Triacta PowerHawk meters have built-in IP networking and advanced features such as DHCP, remote firmware upgrade, and built-in Building Automation System protocols.

For more information visit www.TRIACTA.com.

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