Services & Applications · 03

Operation & Maintenance

No equipment replacement needed: adjusting operating setpoints alone is achievable savings.

Plant operation optimisation

No equipment replacement needed: adjusting operating setpoints alone is achievable savings. Every saving has a cost. A model without cost terms pushes setpoints to the limit and produces impressive but unachievable percentages.

  • Design-day demonstration: pumps −27.9%, towers −22.4%, plant total −5.9% (simulated)
  • Supported systems: primary-only, primary-secondary, common-pipe, ice storage, heat recovery, VRF, data-centre air and liquid cooling
  • Keep your BMS: connect via Modbus / BACnet and run optimisation as a background subsystem (points list and database required)

M&V: every number carries its error

“3%” and “3% ± 8%” are two different things. When uncertainty exceeds the saving, it should not be the basis for invoicing. Client and AirFuture look at the same data, so shared-savings disputes do not arise.

  • IPMVP Option B / C / D
  • 14 Energy Administration equipment-level methods, 4 heat-pump hot-water methods
  • ASHRAE Guideline 14
  • Energy Administration format Word reports

Digital twin & AI control

AI goes live in three stages: shadow → advisory → autonomous, and the client decides when to release each. Safety interlocks cannot be bypassed and every command is auditable.

  • AI vs conventional automatic control, annual simulation −13.1% (Hsinchu climate, 280 RT average, prototype simulation)

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