Buildings are the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The document discusses how energy business intelligence (EBI), a web portal that monitors and analyzes building energy usage data, can help create more efficient and integrated green buildings of the future. EBI will provide real-time data and analytics to highlight inefficient areas, similar to how the iPod revolutionized the music industry. Developing IT solutions like EBI could help reduce emissions while benefiting consumers.

1. Green Intelligent Buildings of the Future Josh Wentz Penn State August 5, 2009

2. FACT: Buildings are the top contributor of greenhouse gas emissions affecting climate change [Energy Information Administration, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2008]

3. FACT: Buildings are the top contributor of greenhouse gas emissions affecting climate change [Energy Information Administration, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2008]

4. Information technology is needed to create integration CONNECTIVITY INTEGRATION

5. Energy Business Intelligence will benefit both the environment and consumers by making an efficient integrated building

6. Energy Business Intelligence (EBI) is a web portal that will monitor and highlight inefficient areas for concern [Engineered Systems, 2009]

7. EBI will provide online externally controlled data warehouses

8. EBI will provide powerful analytical processing power that can turn data into knowledge

9. EBI will offera real-time intuitive way to see what is happening in a home or building

10. “Energy business intelligence will be to buildings as the iPod was to music” [Jack McGowan, 2009]

11. Consider iPhone applications and their future role in the home [Jack McGowan, 2009]

12. FACT: Buildings are the top contributor of greenhouse gas emissions affecting climate change [Energy Information Administration, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2008]

13. Increasing funds to encourage the development of an IT solution such as EBI will benefit both the environment and consumers Architectural Systems Information Technology