70NANB24H201
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Purpose: Commercial buildings 50,000ft or less in size account for 94% of all commercial buildings and 44% of commercial building energy use.
There is also an increased public awareness of the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and poor ventilation in many indoor spaces.
Building automation systems (BAS) are an effective tool for improving energy efficiency and IAQ, but an astonishing 87% of smaller commercial buildings lack any form of BAS due to the cost and complexity of such systems.
XMARK will develop a data-driven approach to building efficiency in smaller commercial buildings, delivering BAS-like results with far lower cost and complexity.
Potential commercial activities to be performed: XMARK Labs LLC has an affordable, reliable, building efficiency sensor for retrofits in commercial buildings that will combine with intelligent building agents resulting in a BAS that will improve the buildings energy efficiency and IAQ.
Expected outcomes: The achievements realized in its SBIR Phase I project will carry over to this Phase II project where XMARK Labs LLC will incorporate their efficient sensors into a system that would lead to automatic optimization of HVAC and IAQ.
Intended beneficiaries: Recipient's intended beneficiaries include mostly smaller commercial buildings given that 87% of those buildings have no such system.
Subrecipient activities: The recipient does not intend to make subawards for this Phase II project.
There is also an increased public awareness of the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and poor ventilation in many indoor spaces.
Building automation systems (BAS) are an effective tool for improving energy efficiency and IAQ, but an astonishing 87% of smaller commercial buildings lack any form of BAS due to the cost and complexity of such systems.
XMARK will develop a data-driven approach to building efficiency in smaller commercial buildings, delivering BAS-like results with far lower cost and complexity.
Potential commercial activities to be performed: XMARK Labs LLC has an affordable, reliable, building efficiency sensor for retrofits in commercial buildings that will combine with intelligent building agents resulting in a BAS that will improve the buildings energy efficiency and IAQ.
Expected outcomes: The achievements realized in its SBIR Phase I project will carry over to this Phase II project where XMARK Labs LLC will incorporate their efficient sensors into a system that would lead to automatic optimization of HVAC and IAQ.
Intended beneficiaries: Recipient's intended beneficiaries include mostly smaller commercial buildings given that 87% of those buildings have no such system.
Subrecipient activities: The recipient does not intend to make subawards for this Phase II project.
Awardee
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Barrington,
Rhode Island
02806-3560
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
None
Xmark Labs was awarded
Cooperative Agreement 70NANB24H201
worth $400,000
from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in October 2024 with work to be completed primarily in Barrington Rhode Island United States.
The grant
has a duration of 1 year 4 months and
was awarded through assistance program 11.620 Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach.
SBIR Details
Research Type
SBIR Phase II
Title
Feasibility and Proof of Concept of a Dense, Low Cost, Network of Sensors Driving Intelligent Building Agents for Air Quality and Energy Control
Abstract
Commercial buildings 50,000ft² or less in size account for 94% of all commercial buildings and 44% of commercial building energy use. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
consumes 40%-60% of total building energy, and up to a third of that energy is wasted. Rising fuel costs, climate change concerns, and policy directives from the Biden Administration are driving the need to increased energy efficiency and the elimination of waste. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic increased public awareness of the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and highlighted the poor ventilation in any indoor spaces. Building Automation Systems (BAS) are an effective tool for improving energy efficiency and IAQ, but an astonishing 87% of smaller commercial buildings lack any form of BAS due to the cost of complexity of such systems. The proposed research enables a data-driven approach to building efficiency in smaller commercial buildings, delivering BAS-like results with far lower cost and complexity. Xmark Labs LLC has developed an affordable, reliable, building efficiency sensor for retrofits in commercial buildings. The research combines this system with BACnet functionality and intelligent building agents, enabling interoperability between building systems, and the potential for automatic optimization of HVAC and IAQ.
Topic Code
6
Solicitation Number
2024-NIST-SBIR-02
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/6/24
Period of Performance
10/1/24
Start Date
2/28/26
End Date
Funding Split
$400.0K
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$400.0K
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
70NANB24H201
SAI Number
70NANB24H201_0
Award ID URI
EXE
Awardee Classifications
Small Business
Awarding Office
1333ND DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST
Funding Office
1333ND DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST
Awardee UEI
LN72K8KM4VM7
Awardee CAGE
7PYT3
Performance District
RI-01
Senators
Sheldon Whitehouse
John Reed
John Reed
Modified: 9/6/24