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Building Dashboard

Building Dashboard tracks and communicates patterns of real-time resource use in buildings in ways that engage, are easy to understand and make connections between resource conservation and resulting environmental and community benefits.

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Citywide Dashboard

Citywide Dashboard is an animated visualization of whole-community flows of electricity, drinking water, and current environmental conditions. It is designed to enhance residents’ understandings of how they are connected to a larger whole — a whole that is ultimately dependent on renewable resource flows and a healthy environment.

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Orbs

Oberlin College electricity

Each orb sits on a building and shows how much of a resource it is using, such as electricity or water.

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Cleveland air quality

Each orb sits on a building and shows how much of a resource it is using, such as electricity or water. Here each orb shows the air quality at a spot in Cleveland. This demo runs on simulated readings.

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Oberlin Ecolympics 2024

Ecolympics runs at the City Schools, community buildings and Oberlin College, with the biggest percentage cut against each building's own baseline winning.

Whole community · electricity

Ecolympics 2024 slide: Oberlin met its community-wide electricity reduction goal and saved 10,050 kilowatt-hours
10,050 kWh saved community-wide, meeting the 10,000 kWh goal

Oberlin City Schools · water

Ecolympics 2024 slide: Oberlin City Schools achieved the greatest water reduction, saving 2,570 gallons
2,570 gallons saved, the biggest water cut of any group

Building Dashboards

A heat map from Prospect Elementary and a results chart from the Oberlin College dorms, both during Ecolympics.

Historical Prospect Elementary heat map showing before, during and after an Ecolympics competition
Prospect Elementary: before, during and after Ecolympics
31%less electricity at the winning Oberlin school during Ecolympics
30%+less electricity at Prospect Elementary, in both 2014 and 2015
Oberlin dorm electricity chart for the 2006–07, 2007–08 and 2008–09 academic years
Oberlin College dorm electricity, 2006–2009

Where Citywide readings come from

Oberlin's Citywide Dashboard combines data from the city's own utility, its water system and local weather and air monitoring.

  • Oberlin Municipal Light and PowerWhole-city electricity. The community-owned utility was founded in 1934.
  • Drinking water plantWater comes from the West Branch of the Black River and is stored in the Parsons Rd reservoir, which holds 450 million gallons when full.
  • Wastewater plantTreated water flows into Plum Creek, whose watershed covers 12.4 square miles and is 60% farmland.
  • Weather and airAir temperature and air quality, read through the day.
Participants in an Environmental Dashboard workshop at the Great Lakes Science Center