Energize Andover

  • Mission
  • Team
  • Meeting Log
    • Summer 2015
    • Summer 2015 - Presentations
  • Reference
    • Ubuntu, Python etc
    • Metasys - Building Management App >
      • Metasys Logs
    • BACnet
    • Theory Refresher
  • About
  • Community News
    • LED Pilot - Fall 2016
  • Contact
  • 2016-17
  • AGAB
  • Mission
  • Team
  • Meeting Log
    • Summer 2015
    • Summer 2015 - Presentations
  • Reference
    • Ubuntu, Python etc
    • Metasys - Building Management App >
      • Metasys Logs
    • BACnet
    • Theory Refresher
  • About
  • Community News
    • LED Pilot - Fall 2016
  • Contact
  • 2016-17
  • AGAB

Shared Folders

  • Town of Andover 

Solarize Andover

2014, the town led a program to significantly increase residential solar system deployment in Andover. Read more here...

Andover Energy - Live

In 2016 Town of Andover signed a contract to buy electricity generated from from Solar source. We have started benefiting from venture now. Here is a live link to energy produced from this solar farm located at Palmer, MA. Read more here

AHS class room layout

  • School classroom layout - 1
  • Official P&F drawings 
  • Electrical Control Panel info (New)
  • ​Full E-Topology
  • ​Old location - New location map (New)

Metasys 

Picture

​Schneider Collaboration

Power Monitoring Expert

Power Monitoring Expert is a software package that tracks real-time power conditions.It can be used to improve energy efficiency, improve system reliability and availability, and maximize the performance of electrical appliances, pumps, lights etc.

Read more about it here
  • Installable Demo  - Here
  • Link to Live demo (U:demo, P:demo) - PMEDemo

Building Analytics

Product Info 
Application Login 

Electrical Usage

  • National Grid Rates (T&D) 2016
  • A typical electrical bill 
  • Same bill in Google spreadsheet
  • Ideas to save Building Energy
  • 2016 - Aug 2015 | Apr 2016  - Electrical Daily Trend 
  • PA Dashboard using BuildingEnergy

Distribution

  • Distribution Panel
  • Main Control Panel

HVAC - Introduction

  • Heating, ventilation and air conditioning 
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Thermal Comfort
  • Heat Transfer

 Pneumatic thermostats inventory 

  • Inventory of pneumatic  thermostats in AHS as of Aug 2015 

Misc

  • Pump Inventory
  • Prior Work, AHS interns etc.

Bancroft

  • Dashboard Info (login)​ 
  • ​Dashboard View
  • Lucid | BuildingOS  | JCI  | Jace 

Energy usage - Historical perspective

  • Heat - Natural Gas usage 2009 - 2014
  • Electricity - Usage 2009 - 2014 

Energizing Andover 

  • Design Thinking for Town Governance
  • Gigabit Broadband
  • Water Infrastructure
  • Code for America

Basics

Lights

BERt - Proto

  • 3 Lights - Incandescent, Compact fluorescent, LED
  • ** Two printers,  An office and Poland Spring Bottle dispenser 

Media

Local Publications

  • Andover Townsman - Jan 7, 2016 
  • Pike School 

Presentation Archive

School Committee New
Meeting, 
Nov  10, '16

School Committee
Meeting,
Dec 3, '15 

  • Video 
  • Presentations

  • ​Pictures
  • Video
  • Summer 2015 findings - Frank Cai 
  • Beyond summer 2015 - Jordan Altaffer ​​

Important Bookmarks


Presentations 
  • Alex Laskey
  • David Mackay
  • Amory Lovins
  • Arun Majumdar
  • Design Thinking -- Maximizing Your Students' Creative Talent
  • Stanford Webinar - Design Thinking = Method, Not Magic 
  • Tony Seba on Disruptive Technologies - 2017
  • Global Calculator
  • Carbon Clock - Bloomberg
  • Food - What to eat? "In Defense of Food"
  • The Future of Renewable Energy: Quayle Hodek
  • The Solar Window Of Opportunity - Joe Jordan worked at NASA Ames Research Center 
  • Energize Andover - Presentations
  • Presentation Ideas

Saving Energy - Portal
  •  Useful energy efficiency tips and more
  • Kill-A-Watt meter

Technology
  • 3 Phase Electricity (15 Min)
  • 3 Phase Electricity (40 Min) 
  • 3 Phase Animation 
  • 3 Phase Calculations - (51 Min)
  • Pumps
  • Variable Frequency Drives (VFD)
  • Variable Speed Motor
  • Transformer 101
  • HVAC Acronyms 


Excel **
  • Lookup and reference functions ()
  • Lookup () - look in a single row or column and fetch a value from the same position in a second row or column
  • VLOOKUP() - New improved Lookup()
  • The indirect() function
  • Excel chit sheet of misc examples
  • Video tutorial  on Vlookup()
  • Graphing in Excel - Video Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2, Tutorial 3, Tutorial 4
  •  Comparative Histogram in Excel   - Video Tutorial
  • Pivot Tables - Get here last - Video Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2
MSPaint **
  • A video tutorial on MSPaint - Start at 3:30 min in to it. 
  • Video tutorial  -II - For Older Windows version 


Blue Ribbon Program - US Dept Of Education
  • Acton-Boxborough  Regional  School  District
  • Blue Ribbon Program - US Department of Education 
  • Blue Ribbon Program - Link II
  • Intro Presentation
  • News Coverage
Plugs in the world
  • Plugs and Sockets

Complementtary intereests

Collage courses online - Harvard
  • Learn on line - Learning Computer Science 
  •  CS50 - Introduction to Computer Science 
Hardware Build Your Own (BYO)
Raspberry Pi
  • Introduction
  • Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2

Summer 2016

  • Flyer and program info​​ 

Story in Pictures

Picture
  • Visit to Heat and Generation Plant
  • ** Class Room experience