Alchemy -- for the ancients it meant turning lead into gold. For today's building operator it means transforming the data from their energy and equipment systems into financial value. SkySpark takes the data from your building and energy systems and applies rules, algorithms, and your knowledge and experience, to identify operational inefficiencies, equipment faults, and opportunities for savings.

In this issue of the Insider we look at the concepts that form the basis of automated analytics and show how SkySpark delivers true business value from your data – data that you most likely already have access to.

Information Alchemy - The February Insider

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SkyFoundry will be presenting at a series of events being held across California in February. RSD’s Total Control division is a SkyFoundry Value Added Distributor for the Western US and is hosting events in Lake Forest, Fresno, San Jose and Sacramento, during the week of Feb 21-24.

The conference series highlights new technologies and practices that can be put to work in buildings to improve energy efficiency and increase security. SkyFoundry will provide a live demonstration of SkySpark analytics in the Energy Summit portion of the event.

Information on the events can be found at: http://www.rsd.net/buildingmomentum.php

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SkyFoundry is proud to be an Emerald Sponsor of the upcoming Building Energy Summit. The District of Columbia has joined the White House Better Buildings Challenge by committing to a 20 percent reduction in commercial building energy consumption by 2020. This commitment engages public and privately held buildings in the Downtown DC ecoDistrict, which contains over 90 million square feet of building space. The 2012 Building Energy Summit is designed to empower DowntownDC ecoDistrict members and other attendees to achieve this efficiency goal and reduce their energy costs.

John Petze will be a panelist in the Advanced Energy Management Solutions session discussing the essential role that operational analytics plays in improving the efficiency of building systems and maintaining those savings over time through Monitoring Based Commissioning (MBCx).

The Energy Summit will be held on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at The Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington DC and is Produced By CoR Advisors. Complete details can be found at:

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In their most recent publicly available research paper, Harbor Research focuses on "The Internet of Interactions" and the business models, technologies and companies driving innovation in the space of smart connected devices -- what they refer to as the The Pervasive Internet. SkyFoundry is noted prominently (with some good company) in the market map of “New Eco-Systems of Technology & Smart Services" driving the pervasive Internet.

The paper can be downloaded here: The Internet of Interactions

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SkyFoundry is proud to be a sponsor and presenter of the Realcomm Webinar series for commercial real estate professionals. This month’s session, scheduled for Jan 26 at 12:30PM ET, is devoted to helping building owners and operators understand how operational analytics can help them identify and prioritize opportunities for improved performance of their building systems and result in rapid payback on their investment.

Registration is free. Detailed information on the webinar can be found at here: Building Operation ANALYTICS - We Have the Data....Now What?

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We are excited to announce the availability of the Jan 2012 issue of the SkyFoundry Insider newsletter. In this very special issue of the Insider we focus on the dynamic SkySpark community and a wide range of special applications and tools that they are developing.

SkySpark is more than just great analytics software – it’s the focal point for a growing community of reseller and development partners that are extending the platform with engineering tools, complimentary applications and service offerings – all of which are helping the industry move forward to improve how buildings operate.

You can download the January issue here:

SkyFoundry Insider - January 2012

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It’s back to technology for this issue of the Insider as we look at the new features, Apps and tools in Release 34 of SkySpark. Input from our customers and exciting new developments from the SkyFoundry team continue to advance the state of the art in operational analytics -- helping you "find what matters".

You can download the December Insider here:

SkyFoundry Insider - December 2011

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Its time to bring the benefits of SkySpark Analytics to Europe. SkyFoundry will be opening the EU market with a special event to be held on Nov 8, 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The event will kick off the building of SkyFoundry’s reseller channel for the region and Systems Integrators from across Europe and the UK have been invited to attend the in-depth session.

For information on attending this event email us at: eu@skyfoundry.com

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All of us at SkyFoundry are excited to see customers, partners and the media recognize the substantial impact that operational analytics can make to improve energy efficiency in buildings. Recently Greentech Media published an article, which discussed SkyFoundry and other companies that are improving building efficiency through the use of analytics. The Greentech Media article can be found here

The article contains a few mistakes and we want to correct those in the interest of accuracy.

Greentech Media incorrectly named Duke Energy as a SkyFoundry customer. They also attributed a dollar value for savings to them. When asked for customer names we conveyed that many customers wish to keep their results confidential. We did, however, direct them to recent articles available on-line to help with their research. In one of those articles, Duke Realty, graciously commented on the results they have achieved deploying SkySpark analytics. They did not, however, discuss numbers related to the money they have saved. The Duke Realty article is available here

We are fortunate to have many happy customers who have seen dramatic results from their deployment of SkySpark, reporting documented savings well over $2M in just the first year of deployment. And yes, there are now 1000 buildings and over 90M sq ft under continuous analytics with SkySpark (all thanks to our fantastic partners). While we would very much like to tell the world all of the details of every success story, many of our customers have requested that information about their use of SkySpark and the results they have achieved remain confidential. We respect our customer’s requests for confidentiality and value the trust they have placed in us.

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After just one year in the market we are excited to report that 1000 buildings are utilizing SkySpark analytics. Read about this milestone, customer comments, SkySpark's European market introduction, using SkySpark for monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) and other topics in this months issue.

You can download the October Insider here:

SkyFoundry Insider October 2011

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