SkyFoundry, LLC applications

A truly intelligent building measures, understands and responds to its own behavior. Achieving this level of intelligence requires more than just the latest, efficient HVAC and lighting systems. The building needs the ability to automatically analyze all of the data produced by its equipment systems, the resources it consumes and the external environmental conditions it is subject to. Control systems on their own simply aren’t designed to accomplish this.

Industrial facilities have their own special requirements based on their unique use and production output, but in the end their equipment systems produce huge volumes of time series data making SkySpark an ideal solution for analyzing and optimizing processes and the environmental systems that support those processes. SkySpark’s Folio database accepts high frequency sensor data with millisecond precision.

SkySpark is deployed in Government facilities of all types from office buildings to military facilities. One of the most notable being the GSA Link project, launched in 2013. GSA Link generates a over 27 million data samples each day from more than 13,000 sensors embedded throughout 81 GSA properties encompassing more than 44 million square feet of space. Using SkySpark analytics, the system has resulted in significant savings in energy and operational costs as well as automating certain environmental outcomes based on given inputs.

Multi-site retail portfolios have unique needs related to their equipment systems and the responsibilities of the teams that manage them. First there are the sheer number of sites and equipment systems and data samples generated. Think of a portfolio with 1000 sites, each with 10 HVAC units, each with 25 data points (sensors and control points), with each point producing 1 data sample every minute. That’s 360 million data samples per day! In the course of a year that’s 131 Billion data samples. Talk about BIG DATA. SkySpark unique database, historian and analytics technology handles projects of that size with ease.