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·Aug 24, 2020

Office Wars: The Space Heaters Awaken

The cold weather is here at Verdigris HQ (yes, it gets cold in California!) and we received the annual email titled,”Use of Office Space Heaters,” from our landlords. This email was unsurprising: our NASA research campus building is old and inefficiently heated. My co-worker has his toasty toes next to…

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Office Wars: The Space Heaters Awaken
Office Wars: The Space Heaters Awaken

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 24, 2020

Great Design is a Poka-Yoke

Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ) is a Japanese term used at Toyota which means “mistake-proofing”. If you’ve never heard of it before, that’s okay. Not many people I know outside of Toyota actually heard of the term. It’s basically what we know as “foolproofing” (poka-yoke actually used to be called baka-yoke, baka meaning…

Energy Efficiency

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Great Design is a Poka-Yoke
Great Design is a Poka-Yoke
Energy Efficiency

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 24, 2020

Find Hidden Savings in Your Time-of-Use Electricity Billing

Is your facility on Time of Use billing? If you don’t know the answer to that question, there’s a large chance you have thousands of dollars to save by digging deeper. New digital smart meters collect electricity consumption data at regular intervals (typically every 15 or 30 minutes). This evolution…

Silicon Valley

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Find Hidden Savings in Your Time-of-Use Electricity Billing
Find Hidden Savings in Your Time-of-Use Electricity Billing
Silicon Valley

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

Automating Short Cycling Detection to Maintain Equipment Health

What is Short Cycling? Short cycling is the rapid turning on and off of a mechanical system, and occurs frequently in air-compressors, furnaces, chillers and AC units. It can be caused by dirty air filters, an oversized system, or the differential pressure being set too small. This rapid state-change adds unnecessary stress on the…

Equipment Health

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Automating Short Cycling Detection to Maintain Equipment Health
Automating Short Cycling Detection to Maintain Equipment Health
Equipment Health

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

How to Turn Green Buildings into Green Money

Generating revenue is better than avoiding costs — pretty much any business school will tell you that. What you may not know is that when your product is real estate, it’s possible to do both at once. For a commercial real estate manager investing in sustainability, Verdigris provides high definition…

Energy Efficiency

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How to Turn Green Buildings into Green Money
How to Turn Green Buildings into Green Money
Energy Efficiency

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

Delivering cost-effective, high-granularity, virtual-meter energy data

One year ago we launched our fifth generation of Verdigris hardware. Our proprietary hardware crucially samples current and voltage at an extremely high frequency (8 kHz, or 8 thousand times every second). Our algorithms use this information to create a virtual physical layer of data. One of these enhanced data…

Energy

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Delivering cost-effective, high-granularity, virtual-meter energy data
Delivering cost-effective, high-granularity, virtual-meter energy data
Energy

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

3 Ways Hotels Can Prevent the Holiday Under-Staffing Blues

It’s that time of year: the smell of Christmas trees, sugar cookies, and the flu bug are in the air. Employees are getting sick, vacationing, and no-showing during the time of year when hotel needs them the most. …

Energy Efficiency

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3 Ways Hotels Can Prevent the Holiday Under-Staffing Blues
3 Ways Hotels Can Prevent the Holiday Under-Staffing Blues
Energy Efficiency

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

IoT Data Security: or, how to keep the NSA out of your building

Everyone is worried about data security these days. And rightfully so — good actors and bad are constantly trying to access your data. The recent dustup between Apple and the FBI shows that protecting personal data is a constant concern, especially when that personal data includes sensitive information like financial…

Energy Efficiency

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IoT Data Security: or, how to keep the NSA out of your building
IoT Data Security: or, how to keep the NSA out of your building
Energy Efficiency

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

The Superhero Secret to Achieving Corporate Energy Reduction Goals

Corporate are increasingly looking at their employees to be superheroes in the good fight against energy waste. This year 57% of corporations have formal energy reduction initiatives, up from 46% last year. That’s a lot of corporations, and a lot of energy waste to conquer! Corporate energy reduction initiatives often…

Energy Efficiency

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The Superhero Secret to Achieving Corporate Energy Reduction Goals
The Superhero Secret to Achieving Corporate Energy Reduction Goals
Energy Efficiency

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Verdigris Tech

·Aug 21, 2020

Zombies, Monsters, and…Vampire Loads? Oh My!

What’s your Halloween costume? I have a feeling nobody will be dressed as an energy-sucking overnight-running computer monitor. But if you’re a commercial building engineer — or a cost-conscious homeowner — you can be sure that unknown devices in your building are sucking up energy when you don’t know about…

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Zombies, Monsters, and…Vampire Loads? Oh My!
Zombies, Monsters, and…Vampire Loads? Oh My!

2 min read

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