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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
1.2 Establish a BMI platform for facilitating ongoing communication and interaction between
diverse industry professionals regarding TIR and Smart Industry / IoT opportunities,
changes, and actions.
1.2.1 Internet-based communication platforms are essential collaboration and innovation
tools for sustaining networking on initiatives and projects set up intra-firm across
functions (RDI, accounting, IT), inter-firm, and between sectors (buildings, grids,
mobility).
1.2.2 More knowledge can be communicated and retrieved more quickly, thoroughly, widely
and cheaply, while enabling ongoing sharing of comments and ideas.
1.2.3 Moreover, IoT tools enable communication represented and presented in a rich
diversity of ways (text, spreadsheets, data visualization, videos, audio, animated
walkthroughs, 3D virtual reality and augmented reality experiences, etc.), as well as
allowing for rapid formation of self-organized ad hoc working teams with specific
missions or goals.
1.3 As part of or in parallel with the BMI platform, set up a data-driven, visually mapped,
inventory of exergy opportunities. This exergy platform would take the form of compiling
all of the energy, water and resource consuming processes and equipment in the industry
sector.
1.3.1 This is the first key step in developing a living roadmap and action map for implementing
exergetic efficiency-productivity gains. It is also core to initiating an industry-wide
Knowledge-as-a-Service expertise as an export business model innovation.
1.3.2 One major caveat, exergetic gains always should be examined and applied from a
systems-integrated perspective rather than by focusing on single pieces of equipment or
artificially constrained limited packages of equipment. For example, avoid using
smaller-sized piping laid out with sharp (elbow) turns in favor of lower friction largerdiameter
pipes laid out straight and minimum turns. This system vantage point results
in the reducing the size and number of necessary motors, pumps, and compressors to
deliver the same chiller service with lower capex and opex.
1.3.3 At the office building scale, where U.S. utility sponsored energy efficiency retrofits
average 18% savings, a system-integrated deep retrofit can achieve 80+% savings. Many
of the savings that are cost-effective in the deep retrofit would not be cost-effective if
only considered as a stand-alone option. For example, upgrading windows with ultra-
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