TY - RPRT T1 - Modeling Windows in Energy Plus with Simple Performance Indices Y1 - 2009/10// A1 - Dariush K. Arasteh A1 - Christian Kohler A1 - Brent T. Griffith AB - The paper describes the development of a model specification for performance monitoring systems for commercial buildings. The specification focuses on four key aspects of performance monitoring:performance metricsmeasurement system requirementsdata acquisition and archivingdata visualization and reportingThe aim is to assist building owners in specifying the extensions to their control systems that are required to provide building operators with the information needed to operate their buildings more efficiently and to provide automated diagnostic tools with the information required to detect and diagnose faults and problems that degrade energy performance.The paper reviews the potential benefits of performance monitoring, describes the specification guide and discusses briefly the ways in which it could be implemented. A prototype advanced visualization tool is also described, along with its application to performance monitoring. The paper concludes with a description of the ways in which the specification and the visualization tool are being disseminated and deployed. U1 -

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U2 - LBNL-2804E ER -