RESET® Operational Standards
RESET is the world's first sensor-based and performance-driven BUILDING STANDARD and certification program.
The RESET Standard is a data quality standard explicitly designed for continuous monitoring sensors in the built environment. The Standard outlines the requirements necessary for the deployment of monitors, collection of monitor data and reporting of results. The RESET Standard aspires to elevate the role of continuous monitoring, increasing its use and credibility on a global scale. Our goal is to enlighten our current understanding of how our buildings operate in order to create a healthier and more sustainable future.
The RESET Standard is the world's first sensor-based and performance-driven program for the built environment. It is a data standard, a set of tools, and a certification program. The RESET Standard creates a structure for data quality, continuous performance assessment, and benchmarking. The standard harnesses the power of technology in order to assess the embodied and operational performance of buildings and interiors during their entire lifecycle.
1. RESET Operational Standards
The RESET Standards are modular and can be certified separately. Project teams can implement individual modules over time, opening up the opportunity to pursue criteria that are most relevant to a project's priorities and needs.
Operational data encapsulates data associated with the continuous operations of a built environment.
RESET Air
Make visible the invisible factor that impacts all indoor spaces in regards to health, productivity, and sustainability.
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RESET Energy
Bring to the forefront the carbon operating costs of the built environment and leverage faster feedback loops to improve.
- Learn more about the RESET Energy Standard.
RESET Water
Generate awareness around water conservation and improve water use efficiency and water quality.
- Learn more about the RESET Water Standard.
RESET Waste
Automatically track and understand the lifecycle input and output of waste; where and how much it is generated and consumed.
- Learn more about the RESET Waste Standard.
2. How RESET Operational Works
The RESET Standard is data-driven and performance-based. RESET requires long-term continuous monitoring data to be streamed to the cloud using qualified, multi-parameter devices. Standardization of data leads to improved comprehension so that we can better operate and maintain our built environments.
Standardized Methodology
RESET codifies how to install hardware and software in order to properly aggregate, report, and communicate data as collected from the built environment. When data has integrity, it can be utilized for comparative purposes such as benchmarking and goal setting. Only data derived from curated, standardized methodologies have the ability to be used for deep analytics on a global stage.
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Operational Monitoring
The RESET Standard is results driven and performance based, so reliable connectivity to continuous monitors is integral to the program. Monitoring throughout the operational lifetime of a building encourages consistent, long term maintenance for both system and structure. Further, teams are incentivized to work together in a collaborative way.
Browse the list of RESET Accredited Monitors or Data Providers.
Non-Prescriptive Solutions
Buildings are uniquely designed, constructed, operated, and maintained across the world. RESET understands this and takes a non-prescriptive approach that allows project teams to explore solutions most suited to their scenario. A non-prescriptive standard means that RESET outlines monitoring methods and performance targets, but allows teams to apply their own design expertise to their projects.
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Continuous monitoring allows projects to better understand how the building performs over time instead of relying on the on-paper specifications and metrics. On-paper metrics and operational metrics are not equivalent since performance can change over time due to prolonged use and maintenance protocols.
Click here to learn more about how to use RESET.3. A Performance and Data-Driven Standard
The RESET Operational Standards is a performance and data-driven standard for evaluating the operational building performance by standardizing the continuous monitoring requirements as it pertains to indoor air quality, energy consumption and production, water consumption and quality, and waste consumption in the built environment.
RESET Operational takes into consideration aspects including monitor performance, deployment, and installation requirements, as well as data reporting and data platform requirements, with the goal of standardizing the data collected is trusted, actionable, and relevant.
RESET Operational's fundamental approach to data requirements can be divided into 3 parts:
Completeness
RESET Operational standardizes the continuous monitoring requirements for performance in built environments. Continuous monitoring brings to the forefront the performance data and provides easier access to understanding how to leverage the faster feedback loops to improve efficiency.
The completeness of data verifies whether or not all the data is there and whether there is enough data to understand the state of the operational performance.
Data Quality
RESET is first and foremost a standard for data quality. Performance results are only as good as the data being assessed.
RESET addresses data quality at the source and specifies requirements for the monitors and the deployment methodology in a project. RESET also makes sure the data is trusted and relevant by requiring monitors to be installed in the right way and to have plans for long term maintenance. Lastly, RESET sets requirements for how the data is reported and connected to guarantee transparency and access via analysis and reporting.
RESET addresses data quality at the source and specifies requirements for the monitors and the deployment methodology in a project. RESET also makes sure the data is trusted and relevant by requiring monitors to be installed in the right way and to have plans for long term maintenance. Lastly, RESET sets requirements for how the data is reported and connected to guarantee transparency and access via analysis and reporting.
Performance
RESET Operational is performance-based, so performance data must be collected to verify the actual performance of the built environment. The data can then be leveraged for benchmarking, setting targets, and iterative improvements.
4. Difference from Other Building Standards
RESET is a data standard, not a design standard.
As a data standard, the focus is on collecting data and data quality. RESET does not require nor offer specific solutions because each indoor space and/or building is different and will require different solutions depending on the situation reflected in the data.
RESET is first and foremost a standard for data quality and the goal is to collect data that is trusted, actionable, and relevant.
Therefore, all of RESET's requirements involve specifications and requirements around data collection, including:
Monitor Specifications and Deployment Requirements
RESET addresses data quality at the source and specifies requirements for the monitors and the number deployed in a project.
Installation Requirements
RESET makes sure the data is trusted and relevant by requiring monitors to be installed in the right way.
Data Reporting and Platform Requirements
RESET sets requirements for how the data is reported and connected to guarantee transparency and access via analysis and reporting.
