Data Collection
Flexible data ingestion that adapts to your building's infrastructure and data catalog
The Meval tool allows users to upload data from their buildings without any requirements about the names of the data features. This flexibility means you can work with your existing data exports without reformatting or renaming your data.
Supported Sensor Types
The tool supports a number of sensor types, including but not limited to:
Outdoor Temperature
Ambient temperature readings for weather normalization
Outdoor Irradiance
Solar radiation data for buildings with significant glazing
Indoor Temperature
Thermal zone air temperatures
Indoor Operation
Operational schedules and features that correlate with occupancy levels
Meter Types
Whole Building
Total energy consumption at the utility meter level
Sub-metered HVAC
Individual system consumption for chillers, boilers, AHUs
Expanding Connectivity
We are actively working on expanding connectivity capabilities with smart meters and IoT sensors to collect granular data across all HVAC systems and thermal zones in a building. The desktop version of MEVAL already allows linking features for model training to API endpoints so that users do not have to manually upload data:
Supporting Buildings with Limited Infrastructure
At the same time, Meval is being extended in the direction of lower data availability so as to support buildings without the necessary infrastructure to collect granular data. The modeling framework of Meval makes it easy to provide assumptions instead of baseline data, and verify these assumptions using granular data from the reporting period.
Flexible by Design
Whether your building has comprehensive IoT infrastructure or relies on monthly utility bills, our goal is to make rigorous M&V accessible regardless.