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June 18, 2015 — Lucid, a developer of software to connect, analyze, and manage building portfolio-wide metering and building systems data, has launched a new program to help cities ramp up their efforts to reduce energy and water costs while maximizing team productivity.
Connected Cities aims to improve access to energy consumption data, provide cities with tools to make it easier to find and justify energy-saving opportunities, and enable cities to learn from one another’s experience.
Connected Cities aims to connect 100 cities to Lucid’s BuildingOS in the next three years. Lucid is partnering with Dell to enable rapid on-boarding under the program.
The program includes these main elements:
• Lucid’s BuildingOS to centralize historical energy and water data for all buildings and automate utility bill data capture for 15 key buildings.
• BuildingOS’ ENERGY STAR application that automates reporting and energy use benchmarking, an increasingly common requirement for city buildings. BuildingOS connects to 163 existing metering and building systems as well.
• IoT hardware solutions, provided by Dell, that will enable real-time electricity data collection for one high-profile city building.
Bolstering the Connected Cities offering is the Connected Cities Exchange, a network of experts in city resource and benchmarking efficiency. The exchange enables collaboration between cities to share scalable tactics and creates a network effect for all city stakeholders to collectively yield significant cost, energy, and time savings.
“Taking the city and walking it up the sophistication slope is really important and that’s what the program is designed to accomplish,” said Vladi Shunturov, cofounder and CEO of Lucid. “We are going in at a very low price point to give cities a taste of everything.”
The program, born out of Lucid’s commitment to action to the Clinton Global Initiative, is being anchored by two U.S. cities: Orlando, Fla., and Santa Cruz, Calif.
“The City of Orlando has worked to become one of the most sustainable cities in America, and we are committed to building partnerships and sharing resources that foster positive environmental changes,” said Buddy Dyer, Orlando's mayor. “Over the past eight years, the city has achieved more than $1 million in annual energy savings. Our partnership with Lucid will enable us to go beyond energy savings; Connected Cities will help us to build a smarter city that is ready to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.”
About Lucid: Lucid is making building management simple. By connecting people to buildings, its intuitive solutions empower organizations to make smarter decisions that reduce costs, improve occupant comfort, and accelerate team productivity. BuildingOS, the leading building management platform, integrates, organizes, and aggregates portfolio-wide building performance data and asset information for simple, collaborative analysis. The intuitive suite of BuildingOS applications enables a diverse set of teams to drive action from data, guiding them in decisions about building optimization, planning, and tenant engagement. Lucid is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with additional offices in Portland and Toronto.
