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<b>"</b>ecoLong is an energy technology startup that is committed to building resilient communities by leveraging interconnected and smart devices.
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By integrating Eclipse VOLTTRON, a secure, cost-effective open-source platform as a part of ecoLong's energy management and virtual power plant solutions, ecoLong
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strives to build best in class enterprise-grade technology solutions to actively monitor, optimally control, and intelligently manage energy assets and create grid-interactive
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<b>"</b>Since 2021, Volttron has played a significant role within EPRI’s energy storage research. The open source nature of the tool paired with its enthusiastic and
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supportive community have allowed EPRI researchers to efficiently and affordably implement this technology within our controls, emerging energy storage technology, and microgrid
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research. Although EPRI’s current use cases (energy storage system controls) are not technically within Volttron’s smart building automation scope, the tool has proven more than capable in these contexts <b>"</b>
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— <b>Joe Thompson, Technical Leader, Electric Power Research Institute</b>
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<b>"</b>The open source component of Eclipse VOLTTRON is revolutionary; it gives many residential and small commercial
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buildings a chance to be smart, while allowing all of us to contribute to the technology.<b>"</b>
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— <b>Da-Wei Huang City University of New York</b>
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<b>"</b>Instead of using a commercial occupancy sensor, we built a driver in Eclipse VOLTTRON to connect a $2 motion sensor. We estimate our low-cost Eclipse VOLTTRON solution can save 20% on energy and make building occupants much more comfortable.<b>"</b>
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— <b>Lourdes Gutierrez Rochester Institute of Technology</b>
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<b>"</b>Instead of using a commercial occupancy sensor, we built a driver in Eclipse VOLTTRON to connect a $2 motion sensor. We estimate our low-cost Eclipse VOLTTRON solution can save 20% on energy and make building occupants much more comfortable.<b>"</b>
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— <b>Lourdes Gutierrez Rochester Institute of Technology</b>
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<b>"</b>We're working to deploy Eclipse VOLTTRON in a big way in buildings, where it will collect and send building automation system data to the cloud for further analysis in order to optimize building system operations. <b>"</b>
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— <b>Terry Herr, President Intellimation</b>
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<b>"</b>We think Eclipse VOLTTRON can play a large role as a middleware platform for enabling smart-energy-analytics. <b>"</b>
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— <b>Terry Herr, President Intellimation</b>
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<b>"</b>Eclipse VOLTTRON is an elegant and robust system for developing lightweight, deployable solutions for the Building Energy field..<b>"</b>
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— <b>Tyrone Kirk Shillingford City University of New</b>
description: Eclipse VOLTTRON capabilities improve control and operation of building devices and systems, leading to enhanced performance and energy efficiency.
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**It’s a solution to build on!**
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been developing a low-cost central control system for SMBs to more effectively manage heating and cooling, hot water, connected lighting, and potentially other building functions. The system will be interoperable, user-centric, and retrofittable.
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Eclipse VOLTTRON enables secure, efficient management of a wide range of building-related functions, including heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, electric vehicles, distributed energy resources, or even whole building loads. Building owners, management firms, energy services vendors and others are applying this versatile technology to maximize building performance and energy-efficient operations.
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**Impact**: Researchers estimate that not only will SMB owners and managers save money and equipment life, but broad deployment of the control system potentially could deliver source energy reductions between 2,000 and 2,500 trillion Btus yearly with commensurate emissions reductions
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With Eclipse VOLTTRON, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.
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**The Case for Eclipse VOLTTRON in Buildings**
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Homes and buildings use a lot of energy, often inefficiently. The federal government estimates that structures account for approximately 40 percent of the nation’s total primary energy consumption. Many buildings are designed to support efficiency features that reduce energy consumption for heating, lighting, hot water and other functions. However, these features often are not fully deployed. Eclipse VOLTTRON addresses this deficiency and helps make buildings more efficient while ensuring overall functionality and minimizing impacts at the service level.
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**The Answer for Improved Performance and Efficiency**
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The Eclipse VOLTTRON software platform and associated applications perform monitoring, data collection and analysis in devices and building systems, producing actionable information that streamlines control and implementation of energy- and cost-saving measures.
Description: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, Eclipse VOLTTRON is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.
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summary: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, Eclipse VOLTTRON is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.
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Connecting the power system and utilities with the functions that improve home livability, Eclipse VOLTTRON plays a key role in helping to manage wiser, more efficient use of energy resources.
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The PNNL technology can enable the heating and cooling units and hot water heaters to manage their electricity use in ways that help the grid coordinate supply and demand, while enabling occupant cost and comfort preferences.
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### Bringing home the savings!
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Connected home devices—such as smart appliances and security systems—are projected to grow their market share significantly. However, many smart technologies lack connections to their community and the power grid.
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Truly connected smart homes should not only benefit their occupants, they should also benefit the community as a whole by helping strengthen the grid and by building a more resilient and reliable utility network. Eclipse VOLTTRON makes this possible.
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### Efficiency, Savings, Comfort
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As with commercial buildings, residential homes can benefit from Eclipse VOLTTRON’s secure capabilities. Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, Eclipse VOLTTRON enables features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience. And the best part is that utilities don't have to worry about smart devices. Eclipse VOLTTRON does that for them, serving as a single, central point-of-contact for homes.
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With Eclipse VOLTTRON, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.
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**Impact**: The technology could benefit an estimated 120 million homes. Working in concert with utilities and the grid, such smart appliances can quickly and automatically change their electricity demand to help even out grid variations and ultimately reduce the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.
Description: Eclipse VOLTTRON provides a flexible and secure open-source platform for molding solutions in any field involving devices, data and decisions.
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**Looking for solutions?** Eclipse VOLTTRON’s virtually limitless potential offers unique opportunities to identify and create a wide range of marketable products and services. Companies or organizations that develop solutions for the marketplace involving data and devices will find much to like about this technology’s design, security and cost-effectiveness.
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ILC was created as part of the PNNL-led Clean Energy and Transactive Campus project, an effort initially funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Washington State. ILC offers three primary buildings-grid capabilities: capacity bidding, which incentivizes targeted consumption reductions; transactive energy methods for enabling a rapid negotiation process between buildings and the grid; and peak power load management.
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With Eclipse VOLTTRON, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.
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**Use Your Imagination**
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Eclipse VOLTTRON is versatile. Designed initially for the power grid, the technology’s potential continues to grow and evolve. Examples of existing and potential markets include:
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* Building Operations and Efficiency
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* Connected Homes
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**Impact**: The technology’s peak power load management capability has rapidly dropped electricity demand in buildings by 10 to 20 percent, reducing grid stress while maintaining occupant comfort within an acceptable range. ILC has been successfully deployed in multiple buildings at PNNL, at the University of Toledo, in two Washington, D.C. commercial buildings, and will be central to two DOE Connected Communities projects in 2024.
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Eclipse VOLTTRON is a central component in an efficiency and grid services solution for a key,
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underserved segment of the nation’s commercial buildings sector: small- and medium-sized buildings (SMBs).
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<p>In a PNNL-developed technology for homes, Eclipse VOLTTRON and associated algorithms from the Connected Homes project effectively transform existing home heating and cooling units and hot water heaters into smart appliances.
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<p>The PNNL-developed <b>Intelligent Load Control</b> (ILC) technology is delivered to buildings via the Eclipse VOLTTRON platform. ILC coordinates operation of building devices,
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