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In Donald's city there are a LOT of buildings. And though they all have different needs,
they all use utilities. There's the 30-floor office buildings Donald runs, And there's
a lot of other place you might not think about. There's fire stations, and there's the convention
center and the airport. There's ports and there's traffic lights and there are stadiums
that attract big crowds.
AND there's the utility company supplying all the water gas and power.
Now, all of them, including Donald have things that are very important to them:
Donald will say: I need to meet the new city sustainability laws AND keep my buildings
up to date to maintain their market value. And the baseball stadium operator will say
'Look, its important that our fans see us as a green stadium and keep coming in the
door'
Meanwhile the firehouse is concerned about being able to stay up during a hurricane,
and the airport is concerned about the enormous utility bills they run up during the summer.
However, Donald and the rest of them have day-to-day priorities around running their
business or literally putting out fires.
'when all I have to go off of is a bill at the end of the month', Donald will say, 'Is
it really worth my time to look my building's energy use minute to minute or each of my
tenant's hot water taps? I don't even know where I WOULD look at that!'
What if it was possible for building owners and managers to hold in their hand today's
utility usage? To browse the immediate power cost floor-by-floor and room-by-room? To see
how much it cost to heat the buildings that day? That hour? That's whats possible with
a PI System and a connected city.
Now, when the city's energy demand is high -- AND the stadium turns on its lights on
TOP of it, the utility company sends out phone alerts: 'Peak Energy price in effect! Drop
your load now and you'll to receive a much lower utility bill.'
Donald's managers bring out their dashboard -- see that their building is already at a
comfortable temperature, and pause the air conditioning.
The fire department bought two more generators to supply enough power during an outage - And
the baseball stadium now has a public display of their inning-by-inning water use, and all
the fans are talking about it.
The airport is cooling its buildings early in the morning and saving tens of thousands
of dollars each month simply by avoiding the expensive peak load time in the middle of
the day. And what's more the peak load time has even started to shift as other big operators
start doing the same thing. Everyone's bill is lower -- and the utility company is burning
less gas & coal to keep up.
OSIsoft builds the data infrastructure software that makes this possible. Its called the PI
System, and we've built it since 1985. We have commercial customers and we have industrial
customers. And they use the PI System for many, many, things, but it comes down to connecting
people: the owners, the managers, and the operators to the data that's relevant to them.
And we do it really well.