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Intelligent Building Agents

Achieving national goals of net zero energy buildings requires substantial reduction in the energy consumption of commercial building systems. Although
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Building Integration with Smart Grid

Developing a next generation "smart grid" requires new measurement science and industry standards that enable homes and buildings to interact with the grid. In
buildings

Building Integration with Smart Grid

New measurement science and industry standards are needed to enable building systems and consumers to interact with a future "smart grid," which supports the

Publications

Users Guide to the HVACSIM+ Configuration Tool

Author(s)
Michael A. Galler
HVACSIM+ (HVAC SIMulation PLUS other systems) was introduced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1985 as a computer simulation tool

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and building

Tools and Instruments

Image of the Virtual Cybernetic Building Test Bed

Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed

The NIST Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT) is a whole building emulator designed with enough flexibility to be capable of reproducibly simulating