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Modular Building Institute

Energy-Management Command Center

Oct. 2, 2013
The Virtual Engineer communicates with Telkonet’s EcoSmart intelligent wireless thermostats, occupancy sensors, door and window contacts, outlets and light switches to forms a robust, secure wireless mesh network that communicates information between rooms, floors, and buildings

EcoCentral Virtual Engineer is a cloud-based energy-management command center that offers tools for building managers to aggressively save energy. The Virtual Engineer communicates with Telkonet’s EcoSmart intelligent wireless thermostats, occupancy sensors, door and window contacts, outlets and light switches to forms a robust, secure wireless mesh network that communicates information between rooms, floors, and buildings. It is designed to enable facility staff to control buildings, zones, rooms, or individual devices from the cloud in real time; visualize facility data points; facilitate intelligent load-shed actions, enable logical profile-shifting; evaluate equipment performance; and monitor total energy savings. EcoSmart integrates with numerous third-party technology providers to control everything in buildings, from temperature and lighting to drapes and media centers. In addition, the EcoCare Service & Support platform provides 24/7/365 proactive monitoring to ensure that a building consistently runs at peak efficiency. —Telkonet