{"470251":{"#nid":"470251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Data Visualization and Benchmarking Tools for Predictive Sustainable Decision-Making","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELike many universities, Georgia Tech has a lot of data, but decision-makers do not always know how to best interpret the vast amounts of data or how to use it to help set campus priorities, especially when it comes to making investments in the campus infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis past October, Anne Rogers, program manager for the Office of Campus Sustainability, and Scott Duncan, a research engineer in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, presented at the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference on developing a \u201cSmart Campus,\u201d using Georgia Tech\u2019s campus as a living\u0026shy;-learning laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmart Campus is a modeling program consisting of 20,000 data points from utility meters across campus that help stakeholders understand how campus infrastructure systems are operating in real time. In addition, Smart Campus offers outputs of predictive tools and savings \u2013 key metrics used by operation personnel in Facilities Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis collaborative campus effort is designed to help answer system-level sustainability questions across campus operations, interpret the data, and develop visualization tools to develop and prioritize a sustainable agenda.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech enables a \u0022smart campus\u0022 through the development of tools to help utilize campus data more effectively."}],"uid":"27164","created_gmt":"2015-11-16 15:37:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Rachael Pocklington","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"247111":{"id":"247111","type":"image","title":"Solar power at CNES","body":null,"created":"1449243758","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:42:38","changed":"1475894924","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:44","alt":"Solar power at CNES","file":{"fid":"197955","name":"cnes_002.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cnes_002_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cnes_002_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":182685,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cnes_002_0.jpg?itok=n6lqg3gr"}}},"media_ids":["247111"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Campus Sustainability"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.aashe.org\/","title":"AASHE"}],"groups":[{"id":"64319","name":"Administration and Finance"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"148081","name":"Administration and Finance newsletter"},{"id":"171502","name":"smart campus"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anne.rogers@sustain.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAnne Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECampus Sustainability\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}