Saving energy

At Qbus we have a particular stance towards energy savings:

-       The greenest energy is the energy you don’t use.

-       Energy savings should not result in a reduction of your comfort;

-       Investments in energy savings solutions need to pay themselves back;

-       Measuring = knowing. By seeing energy consumption graphs actions can be taken to reduce unnecessary energy consumption, and on their turn the reduced energy consumption will be visible on the new graphs;

-       The right balance between energy efficiency and comfort changes over time – hence a user needs to be able to continuously optimize energy consumption.

All of these principles are present in a Qbus installation.

Via the event-handling functionality of the controller, everything that happens on the bus is logged on the SD-card of the controller. Via the Eco-dashboard (part of the EQOmmand Software), all these events can be visualized in meters (for current consumption of energy, water, temperature, CO2-levels,…) or graphs (for historical data per day, week, month, year). Hence energy consumption, average temperatures, water consumption etc can be measured, compared to previous periods and visualized per output, per room, per floor, for the entire building,… Energy savings actions can be easily taken by changing the settings of your Qbus system via the configuration software (e.g. changing a bistable on/off output to a Timer output which automatically turns off the lights after a certain time; changing the temperature settings in the living room where it gets too hot,…). And via the CO2-based ventilation system we developed, there is no need to worry about the heat-recuperation efficiency of your ventilation system: as we only ventilate when needed based on the occupancy and CO2 concentration in a room, we do not waste energy by over-ventilating and hence there is no need to recuperate the energy.