Home Automation application notes BLAZE AUTOMATION 2010

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Human Impact on the environment
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• When you look at the history of humanity it's
  basically a relationship between the two most
  complicated systems on Earth Human society and
  nature.
• Now , We are causing the devastation to our very
  foundation of our life system that has given us
  birth.
• We should come out of the illusion that people
  are separate from nature.

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Pollution

• Since the industrial revolution, society has had
  a tendency to assume that the environment can
  absorb any amount of pollution.
• Many of the most disastrous incidents of
  pollution involve industrial chemicals that are
  toxic or carcinogenic

Pollution from thermal power plant
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Pollution and Acid rain

• Rain and snow carry the sulfuric acid formed
  when sulfur reacts with water back to the surface
  in the form of acid rain.
• It causes loss of species diversity in bodies of
  water.
• Destruction of trees and organisms due to low pH
  levels in ground water.
• Extinction of a lot of species.

Trees killed due to acid rains
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Depletion of Ozone Layer

• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are a class of
  chemicals involved in ozone destruction.
• Coolant in refrigerators and air conditioners
  propellant in aerosol dispensers release CFCs.
• Ozone depletion will cause and increase in the
  number of people who develop skin cancer and
  cataract.

Ozone layer
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Global Warming

• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere influences
  global temperatures.Global warming during Earth's
  current interglacial warm period has greatly
  altered our environment and the distribution and
  diversity of all life.
• Global surface temperature increased
  0.74  0.18 C (1.33  0.32 F) between the
  start and the end of the 20th century
• Broader effects are expected to include glacial
  retreat, arctic shrinkage,  including long-term
  shrinkage of  Greenland ice sheet, and worldwide
  sera level rise due to global warming.

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Extinction of Species

• Over the last 50 years, about half the worlds
  rain forests have been destroyed for pasture and
  farmland or for timber
• Rain forests have the highest species diversity
  in Earth
• It is estimated that at least 1/5 of the worlds
  animals and plants will become extinct over the
  next 50 years

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Non-replaceable Resources

• Fossil fuels Fossil fuels like coal, natural gas
  and petroleum products once used are not
  replaceable and will add global warming gasses
  in to the environment.
• Loss of top soil by repeatedly turning over soil
  to eliminate weeds, by allowing animals to
  overgraze ranges and pastures, and by practicing
  poor land management we permit the wind and rain
  to remove more and more
• Pollution and depletion of ground water Water
  seeps into aquifers at too slow a rate to replace
  the large amount of water being withdrawn for
  unnecessary use (watering lawns, washing cars,
  and running fountains)

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Examples of Disastrous Events

• In the early 1970s, Lake Erie was so polluted
  from large amounts of industrial chemicals that
  few fish could survive there
• The Exxon Valdez ran around on the Alaska coast
  in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of oil and
  killing thousands of marine animals. Even today
  the evidence of damage to local wildlife
  continues to mount
• UN estimates by the middle of the century there
  may be 150 million environmental refugees at any
  given time from climate change.

Katrina
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Natural calamities
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The 5 components of solving any environmental
problem

• Assessment
• Risk analysis
• Public education
• Political action
• Follow-through

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Assessment

• The gathering of information
• Data collection
• Performing experiments
• Make predictions

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Risk Analysis

• Use the information from assessment to predict
  the consequences of environmental intervention
• Evaluate the potential to solve the problem as
  well as any adverse effects the plan might create

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Public Education

• Inform the public
• Explain the problem in understandable terms
• Present alternative actions
• Explain probable costs and results

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Political Action

• The public, through its elected officials,
  selects and implements a course of action.
• Exercise your right to vote.
• Write to elected officials.
• Support special interest groups.

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Global Warming Solutions

• Reducing the amount of gas released in the
  atmosphere
• energy efficiency
• renewable energy
• vehicle technology solutions
• Increase the efficiency of photosynthesis

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Why aren't we responding to climate change?

• First and foremost economy
• gtgtThe greatest weapon of mass destruction is
  corporate economic globalization.
• gtgtPeople think that, to implement
  eco-friendly measures
• is expensive.
• Lack of awareness
• gtgtMany people still dont know what is green
  house effect.
• gtgtwhat extent it is damging our eco-system

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Fundamental opportunity cost of economic growth

• As the economy grows, it displaces, it encroaches
  upon the biosphere, and this is a fundamental
  cost
• What would it cost us to take carbon dioxide out
  of the air and put oxygen back in it, which all
  the green things do for us for nothing.
• What would it cost to pollinating all of the
  flowering plants.
• In our modern globalized world growth continues
  to be the focus of many corporations and
  governments who deplete our environment for
  economic gain.

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What BLAZE can offer?

• Blaze considered both environment and economy to
  design products which keep balance between both
  of them.
• One of its kind is BLAZE occupancy based
  lighting system.
• On an average 30 of the energy on lighting can
  saved by implementing occupancy based lighting.
• There are other indirect benefits from occupancy
  based lighting like reduction in Air
  conditioning bills etc.

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How occupancy based lighting works (example)
Provide light when and where it is required an
egress path for late night workers eliminates
unnecessary energy usage after hours.
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Estimates average saving potential for different
space types using occupancy sensors

• Private office 1350
• Conference room 2265
• Classroom 4046
• Restrooms 3090
• Corridors 3080
• Store areas (including warehouses) 4580

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Detection pattern of Occupancy sensors
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Features Blaze Occupancy sensors

• All occupancy detection sensors feature advanced
  robust wireless RF platform
• Easy installation with out retrofit or
  reconstruction
• On-board management selectable setting for
  maximum control without requiring advanced
  technical knowledge
• Multiple rooms, HVAC and balcony doors easily
  accommodated with no additional wiring required
• Occupancy detection only requires single occupant
  movement.

Wide range of cost effective and reliable
occupancy sensor are available with BLAZE
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ROI - Conclusions

• Average ROI for 30 saving 18-24 months
• Note Here we have assumed that the
  Lighting fixtures are ON 12 -14 hours per day and
  there is a saving of only 30 averaged
  considering all the areas in a typical corporate
  setup of the energy for Lighting through
  Occupancy sensors.
• This also includes savings through indirect
  savings.

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What it contributes to environment

• Suppose if you going to save minimum of10000KWh
  per month for you whole building see how it will
  help environment

10000
90
90
7.5
450
37.5
Note Reference for this calculation
http//www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm
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Thank you

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