Little update

We are currently confirming the layout and functionality for the iBuilding dashboards.  This includes identifying what the icon is staff will see as they login to the UCLan network, what widgets / web parts the main dashboard will consist of and what data should be included in the lower levels users can drill down to.

A survey has been launched to all students to try and establish their current attitudes towards energy consumption on campus.  So far the survey has had 42 results.  The survey briefly explores the students’ energy consumption habits and explores their attitude towards energy consumption on campus. The results so far have been interesting - quite a mix in the answers to "How do you think levels of energy consumption at UCLan directly affect you?"

This survey will be repeated after the dashboard has been launched as part of the evaluation.

First glimpse at the potential dashboard

Yesterday we had the first glimpse at our potential dashboard. The product looks like it will do everything we need with drill down into building data, looking at energy consumption in several unit I.e kph, £'s, etc.

We are starting to realise the potential of the dashboard, it is likely that the academics and students in the School of Built and Natural Environment are likely to be interested in getting more data out of the dashboard than others.

The next stage is to review the demo dashboards in more detail to ensure they meet our requirements before we give the go ahead to develop the dashboard with this product. The new system we want to use will not be able to be hosted at UCLan until November, however we can develop and launch the dashboard with the providers hosting it in the interim.

A question for you?
How do others think staff and students might like to use the dashboard?

Start up programme meeting

The programme start up meeting was really interesting. It was great to see so many good and interesting projects relating to greening ICT. As an addition to our project I was really interested to hear about the issues around the purchase of goods. Those with budgets for the purchase are looking at immediate purchase price, however those in estates are looking at the long term cost of goods - the life cost.

I am pleased to say that I had a very productive conversation about this and we are discussing how the life cost of a product could be considered at purchase. Hopefully it's another message we can spread when we launch the iBuilding dashboard. If anyone includes this on purchase processes please let me know!