Track Overview
OpenADR Workshop
Track Leader: Mary Ann Piette
May 19, 2008
This workshop focuses on a set of high-level technical presentations and demonstrations that dive into Automated Demand Response (AutoDR), standards initiative, data models, use cases, functional specifications and terminology. AutoDR does not involve human intervention, but is initiated at a home, building, or facility through receipt of an external communications signal. The receipt of the external signal initiates pre-programmed demand response strategies (Piette et al. 2005). One important feature in AutoDR is that a homeowner or facility manager can “opt out” or “override” a voluntary DR event if the event comes at a time when a reduction in end-use services is not acceptable. The topics covered will describe in-depth technology and inner-workings, presently being used for AutoDR or proposed for future and where the industry is heading. The intended audiences for these workshops are technical professionals, technology, and control vendors.
Introduction to OpenADR
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
This session will focus on DR Automation Server (DRAS) standards initiatives for AutoDR, termed called as Open Automated Demand Response or OpenADR, that describe open standards for interfacing varied AutoDR systems to enable platform-independence and interoperability among end-to-end DR systems and buildings and includes:
- Motivation and Benefits
- Recent History
- Status of Implementation
Presenters:
- Mary Ann Piette Presenter Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Presentation (pdf)
OpenADR Standards
1:20 pm - 3:00 pm
The presentations will cover technical details of AutoDR w/ demonstrations and its implementation that are standard-based using continuous, secure, reliable, 2-way communication, which listen and acknowledge both reliability and price signals. The focus will be on:
- Development of open interfaces and one common communication and signaling infrastructure for DR that is platform-independent, interoperable, and transparent to end-to-end technologies and/or software systems within buildings.
- Initiatives to develop industry-level AutoDR open standards, consistent with AutoDR, with common DR interfaces, communication, and signaling infrastructure in form of architecture, data models, use-cases, functional specifications, security policies, and guidelines for all form of events.
Presenters:
- Ed Koch Panelist Akuacom Presentation (pdf)
- Peter Palensky Panelist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of Pretoria Presentation (pdf)
- Girish Ghatikar Panelist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Presentation (pdf)
OpenADR & Building Standards
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Open standards enable control and communication to integrate with both common Energy Management and Control Systems (EMCS), strategies, and other end-use devices that can receive a relay or similar Internet-based signals (such as XML) with wide range of AutoDR programs and tariffs. This session will cover various aspects of building standards, presently developed and their applicability to OpenADR.
Presenters:
- Dave Resch Panelist Cassatt Presentation (pdf)
- Leighton Wolffe Panelist Constellation New Energy
- David Holmberg Panelist NIST - BACnet Presentation (pdf)
- Toby Considine Panelist oBIX / University of North Carolina Presentation (pdf)
- Ron Bernstein Panelist LONMARK International Presentation (pdf)