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Smart grids need smarter buildings
Feb 23, 2010

Carol Prince says part of the problem is that the marketplace has been flooded with a plethora of products of increasing sophistication and functionality, leaving the end user with a bewildering choice of systems. Competing technologies also raise the issue of cost-effectiveness, as the general perception is that building efficiency is a costly business.

"What a lot of companies are not aware of is that you can just do one room at a time. A developer might say to us it is impossible to retrofit 300 rooms at a time, for example. We say approach it simply – introduce the new technology as one tenant leaves and before the next moves in." Prince says that RWN Trading is engaged in a major contract involving a 1000-bed hotel, where it has installed a mock-up room in order to obtain real-time energy-efficiency data.

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