Webinar Library

Introduction to Energy Charting and Metrics (ECAM)

Webinar Presenter: Bill Koran, P.E., Director of Energy Analytics, Northwrite, Inc.

Hosted by Onset and presented by Bill Koran, this webinar will show how the free Energy Charting and Metrics (ECAM) tool can help you understand energy consumption patterns and trends in buildings. You will learn how ECAM can help you interpret data from energy meters and BMS points, furthering your ability to identify underlying causes of inefficiencies and pinpoint potential solutions.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand how ECAM can greatly simplify the analysis of data from loggers and interval meters
• Learn that it is possible to easily do the analyses you want or need
• Gain sufficient knowledge to get started with ECAM for analysis of data

This webinar is targeted at Building Owners, Energy Engineers and Managers, Energy Consultants, Facility Managers, Energy Efficiency Program Managers and anyone interested in managing their buildings' energy usage.

Optimize Energy Investments Data Driven Strategies

Hosted by Onset and presented by Gregory Johnson of Kilawatt Technologies, this free online webinar will explain how the best way to approach decisions for a building's capital and operational budget is through the use of data from controls and data loggers.

Using real-world examples, Gregory will show how you can begin to understand building energy usage following the collection and analysis of more than a million points of data within a building, and then statistically determine the best course of action to take.

Choosing the Right Temp/RH Data Logger to Meet Your Needs

Onset has a full suite of data loggers for monitoring temperature and humidity in buildings. Figuring out which one to choose for your application can sometimes be confusing. This on-demand webinar explains the range of HOBO temp/RH data loggers, from HOBO standalone devices and web-based monitoring systems to wireless data nodes, and outlines the important things to consider when evaluating them for your application.

Benchmarking and Monitoring Residential Building Performance

Presented by Paul Eldrenkamp from DEAP Energy Group, this webinar introduces strategies and methods for establishing benchmarks against which to measure residential building performance. Paul will also demonstrate tools and techniques for measuring and monitoring, including data loggers, flow meters, CO2 monitors, and others.

After completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Start to develop appropriate performance benchmarks for projects, including energy and water usage, temperature, relative humidity, moisture content of materials, and carbon dioxide levels
• Incorporate strategies and methods for monitoring whether performance benchmarks are being met
• Have a broad overview of the range of devices available for monitoring various residential building performance criteria
• Start to create a list of tools and resources that will foster ongoing development of performance monitoring capabilities

An Innovative Approach to Low Cost Monitoring Based Commissioning

Patrick J. O'Neill, Ph.D., a highly acclaimed expert in the field of mechanical and industrial engineering and CEO and co-founder of NorthWrite, Inc., discusses an innovative, low-cost approach to Monitoring-based Commissioning (MBCx) that helps identify, implement, and track cost-effective energy savings measures in small and mid-sized commercial buildings. The following topics are covered:

• The MBCx process and associated benefits
• Getting 80-90% of the benefit of MBCx for 20% of the cost
• Establishing energy baselines
• Using web-based monitoring hardware to track building performance
• Common low-cost/no-cost energy savings opportunities
• Ensuring persistence of energy saving

The Tale of Two Roofs - White Roof Webinar

Chris Walker, Owner of Roofpal Services LLC, presents his "Tale of Two Roofs" webinar describing the process of upgrading the roof of the Nationwide® Scottsdale Insurance Company headquarters building in Scottsdale, Arizona to a new white roof. Doing so greatly increased structural integrity, reduced maintenance costs, as well as energy consumption of the 18 year old current roof installation.

Exploring the Power of HOBOware

Hosted by Elena Rice, an Onset software engineer, this on-demand webinar provides useful information on how HOBOware Pro software's powerful graphing and analysis tools can help you easily and quickly plot, analyze and extract key information, including the following:

1. How to simplify data analysis using data assistants
2. Easily import and export data using HOBOware's file management tool
3. Steps on filtering basic statistics for any subset of data within a graph
   

Using the HOBO U26 DO Logger

Learn how to set up and deploy the Onset HOBO U26 Dissolved Oxygen logger for measuring concentrations of oxygen in lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. You will learn how to:

• Calibrate the DO logger in the lab
• Use field calibration to compensate for measurement drift from fouling
• Properly clean the DO logger
• Offload data quickly and easily using the HOBO Waterproof Shuttle
• Replace the DO sensor cap
• Work with HOBOware's basic graphing tools and the DO Assistant

Using Underwater Epoxy to Install Temperature Sensors in Mountain Streams

Monitoring stream temperature is critical to understanding aquatic ecosystems. Temperature monitoring in mountain streams, however, has been limited to summer months, when streams are accessible and snowmelt floods have abated. This webinar describes how a team from the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Boise, Idaho developed a protocol for using an underwater epoxy to adhere HOBO® TidbiT v2 temperature data loggers securely to large rocks in mountain streams for long-term, durable deployment.

Presented by Dan Isaak of the U.S. Forest Service, the webinar addresses the benefits of year-round temperature data collection, the methods to achieve it, and the increasingly extensive monitoring network being developed across the Northwest.

Exploring HOBOware Software Webinar

Presented by Scott Ellis, Product Specialist, Onset Computer Corporation. You will learn:

• Copying a Series to another plot
• How to Merge Data files - gives you the ability to combine data files from same loggers and save it as a project file
• How to Filter your Data - different filters for Interval based data vs Pulses or Counts data vs Run time data
  • Using Data Assistants
  • kWh Assistant
  • Linear Scaling Assistant
  • Pulse Scaling Assistant
    

Using the HOBO U26 DO Logger

Learn how to set up and deploy the Onset HOBO U26 Dissolved Oxygen logger for measuring concentrations of oxygen in lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. You will learn how to:

• Calibrate the DO logger in the lab
• Use field calibration to compensate for measurement drift from fouling
• Properly clean the DO logger
• Offload data quickly and easily using the HOBO Waterproof Shuttle
• Replace the DO sensor cap
• Work with HOBOware's basic graphing tools and the DO Assistant

Quantifying the Effects of Discharge on Groundwater Exchange and Temperature in Rivers

This webinar presents a novel, field-based approach for quantifying the effects of river discharge on groundwater-surface water exchange and stream temperature in a gravel-bed lowland river. Erin Bray, Hydrology and River Systems Scientist, explains how Onset HOBO Water Temp Pro v2 data loggers were used to monitor water temperature in three field investigations and describes specific installation and retrieval techniques for the loggers.

Exploring HOBOware Software Webinar

Presented by Scott Ellis, Product Specialist, Onset Computer Corporation. You will learn:

• Copying a Series to another plot
• How to Merge Data files - gives you the ability to combine data files from same loggers and save it as a project file
• How to Filter your Data - different filters for Interval based data vs Pulses or Counts data vs Run time data
  • Using Data Assistants
  • kWh Assistant
  • Linear Scaling Assistant
  • Pulse Scaling Assistant
    

Product Tour of the HOBO U30 Remote Monitoring System

Take a product tour of the HOBO U30 Remote Monitoring System. This webinar discusses how the system’s plug-and-play design, remote communications capabilities and web-based data access can save you time and money in the field.