Web-based Display Tracks Campus Energy Use

Harvard Medical School has debuted a new tool that allows members of the community to monitor energy consumption across campus in real time.

The interactive energy display, available at https://facilities.med.harvard.edu, allows users to choose which utilities to view—such as electricity, cooling or heating—and what units to view them in. The website receives continuous updates from a database that collects information from meters located in buildings around the HMS campus. Readings can be viewed for the entire campus or building by building. A historical usage graph displays usage patterns by the hour, day, week or month, which can be compared with the previous hourly, daily, weekly or monthly usage.