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?

The start up meeting

The first project team meeting has taken place and the project is now underway.  The team in Facilities Management are developing the business requirements for the new dashboard to enable us to develop an “ideal template” with no software influence to release to the HE sector as an example or starting point for similar projects. 

The decisions to be made are; where will this dashboard sit? How do we ensure it is easy to access, that people are aware of it and people look at it without making it appear in a way that will frustrate users? Once we have our ideal dashboard created, we will bring in the software suppliers to start developing it.

Evaluation will soon be underway to create a baseline for us to measure the success of the project against.  This will include assessing the current energy consumption of buildings and the attitudes of staff and students towards energy consumption on campus.