[recipe] Recipe Bar BOF

Bruce Nordman <bnordman@lbl.gov> Sun, 22 March 2009 05:59 UTC

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Hi all--

  I dropped in at December 2007 IETF to talk about energy and IT networks.
While I still work on that topic, my greatest interest currently is 
"building networks"
of ALL energy-using devices in residential and commercial buildings.
  A current fad in the energy arena is the "smart grid".  I believe it 
critical
to define the grid as ending at the meter, and to have building networks 
that
manage things inside buildings, with just a few well-defined interfaces that
cross the meter. 
  How we network the "real world" of buildings is ultimately quite complex,
and my proposal is to eventually create a sibling of the IETF for building
networks for this purpose.  I also think that we should focus on the 
functionality
of how energy-relevant devices deliver services to people, and see reducing
energy use as a nice side-benefit of this.  I think we will do more for 
energy
efficiency by focusing primarily on functionality than we would if energy
were the prime goal.

  I'm looking forward to Wednesday evening.

--Bruce

 

-- 
Bruce Nordman
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BNordman@LBL.gov -- 510-486-7089
eetd.lbl.gov/ea/nordman

[recipe] Recipe Bar BOF Bruce Nordman