Facility Energy Management via a Commercial Web Service

The World Wide Web (the Web) is rapidly transforming many business practices. The purpose of this chapter is to show readers how facility management tools provided by application service providers (ASPs) via the Web may represent a simple, cost-effective solution to their facility and energy management problems. Accessing tools simply by using a web browser and an Internet connection, all participants in the management of a facility can get convenient access to the information and tools to get their needs met more effectively. Further, energy tools that are integrated into these facility management software environments become readily accessible and can be linked to other tools for managing work orders for getting energy-wasting problems fixed. The chapter also describes how the Federal Energy Management Program is working to make such energy tools readily available.