Customer Success Story: Town of Arlington/Peirce School
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite
- AnalytiX® suite
- Facility AnalytiX predictive software
Tech Stack
- Microsoft Azure
Implementation Scale
- Departmental Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Energy Saving
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Building Energy Management
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
The Peirce School is a public elementary school located in the town of Arlington, MA. The school is named after Captain Solomon Peirce, who served in the Revolutionary War. The original school building was built in 1924 and demolished in 2001. The current school facilities were built in 2003. The Town of Arlington, working with Microsoft, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite, in addition to the AnalytiX® suite of analytical tools, including Facility AnalytiX predictive software for facilities management.
The Challenge
Arlington Public Schools sought to consolidate its summer-school operations into one building at The Peirce School. Anticipating the need for an increase in air conditioning, the district immediately purchased a new chiller for the school building. The Regional Energy Manager for the town of Arlington, Ruthy Bennett, is responsible for looking for ways to reduce energy costs, a high priority for a town named a Green Community by the State of Massachusetts in 2010. The town and school district, both operating on tight budgets, wished to ensure that their decisions to consolidate summer school classes to one location and to purchase a new chiller made financial sense. With the goal towards lower energy and operational costs, Bennett sought energy management software that would be more beneficial than what she considered “glorified schedulers”. While researching solutions, she learned of ICONICS’ Facility AnalytiX being used to help cut energy costs at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA.
The Solution
After taking a look at competitors’ offerings, Bennett, the town and the school district decided on ICONICS. Based on advanced Facility Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) technology, Facility AnalytiX uses customizable fault rules to weigh the probability of equipment failure and alerts staff to actions they can take when faults occur. When equipment fails, the software analyzes current and historical information (along with symptom/cause relationships), executes probability algorithms, and provides a list of possible causes sorted by probability. To save on project costs for the town and school district, Bennett opted to utilize Facility AnalytiX’ ability to integrate with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. With no additional hardware required, installation was quick. ICONICS engineers connected equipment with control boxes that communicate with the cloud. Using Facility AnalytiX with Azure also allows the school district to access and store millions of data points across a wider range of time, rather than their previous 72-hour restriction.
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