The document summarizes EcoFactor's approach to understanding home thermal characteristics using smart grid data to optimize HVAC efficiency. EcoFactor's software analyzes thermostat, weather and usage data to adjust home HVAC systems, reducing energy consumption by 20-30% without compromising comfort. This benefits various stakeholders - HVAC providers through leads and subscriptions, consumers through savings, utilities through demand response and energy efficiency, and energy retailers through increased subscriptions and margins. EcoFactor's data-driven approach requires collecting large amounts of usage data to make automated adjustments that optimize each home's HVAC efficiency daily.

1. EcoFactor
November 4, 2010
Presented by:
Scott Hublou
SVP, Products Co-Founder

2. The data available from Smart Grid-
connected devices allows for the
understanding of an individual home’s
Thermal Characteristics

3. That’s cool…
But who cares?

4. Understanding thermal characteristics 
increase Demand Response yield/AC
by 36%

5. Understanding thermal characteristics 
decrease heating and cooling energy
consumption by 20-30% without
compromising comfort.

6. But again who cares...?
Consumers care about
saving money.
Big businesses care about
selling new services to their
residential customers.
Utilities care about driving
adoption of residential DR.

7. Who REALLY cares…
HVAC Service
Providers
Why: Maintenance Contracts
What they get: Lead gen, Subscription $
Consumers
Why: Hands-free Energy Management
What they get: Savings
Digital Service
Providers
Why: Stickiness, leverage
What they get: Subscription $
Utilities
Why: DR, EE
What they get: kW, kWh
Energy Retailers
Why: Stickiness,  margins
What they get: Subscription $

8. Ecofactor understands the thermal characteristics of your home
Optimized HVAC efficiency program for your house each day
20-30% reduction of HVAC energy use
No loss of control, comfort or convenience
Thermostat Adjustments
Thermostat Data
Weather Data

9. Energy Management Requires a LOT of Data
Each month, EcoFactor will:
Make 144,000 data collection calls
Log 64.8 million points of data
Make ≈120,000 adjustments
Each year, EcoFactor will:
Make 17 Billion data collection calls
Log 7.8 Trillion points of data
Make ≈14 Billion adjustments
100
thermostats
1,000,000
thermostats

10. Thank You