Bluenote - Maximizing the energy efficiency of buildings
INTRODUCTION
The world is a globalized village and the advancement in technology has brought about the construction of gigantic commercial real estates, skyscrapers etc. These edifices consume about 60% of global electricity and they are responsible for over 30% of world's carbon emissions, making them they largest singular source of carbon emissions. Building owners and traditional investors are more concerned about asset appreciation and cash flow rather than energy use and as such valuable data on building's energy are locked in the building's greenhouse gas emissions footprint. Even when available, the data generated are fragmented, thus limiting trust and understanding between utilities, vendors and consumers.
Bluenote seeks to address this issue by launching the world's first blockchain energy protocol where building operators around the world will be able to learn from one another how to waste less energy through distributed data intelligence.
BLUENOTE: THE WORLD'S FIRST OPEN DATA PROTOCOL NETWORK
Bluenote provides alternative to keeping data locked in vendor silos and allows for the easy sharing the intelligence exposed by data across a decentralized network, opening opportunities for easy energy efficiencies that wouldn't have been possible. An integral element of Bluenote is the Bluenote protocol which is a decentralized network of building data, paired with token-based system for data processing and decision making services. The Bluenote protocol will utilize blockchain technology to provide more trustworthy and secure energy data to its users and also enable everyone to use this data to develop better energy solutions.
Building data be uploaded to a node of which it has control over and it's part of a network connected to other nodes. Activities and transactions on the platform are transparent as all data stream location and transaction are recorded on the blockchain ledger and to maintain confidentiality, all data stream is identified by a unique key only known to the owner and anyone the owner chooses to share it with. In order to have a strong data set for use that is readily available to the large public, Bluenote will incentivize buildings for sharing identifiable and non identifiable data with the broader community.
HOW ARE DATA GENERATED?
Data are gotten out of the vendor silos of building through smart meters and building management systems such as utility smart meter, sub meter and uploaded to the Bluenote network. The data is linked to a distributed ledger so that it can be audited to its source and trusted by everyone and building owners are rewarded based on the quality, frequency and demand for the uploaded data.
BENEFITS OF BLUENOTE AND THE POTENTIALS IT HOLDS
Bluenote can checkmate the performance of commercial buildings and help avert the environmental challenges such buildings pose. As we know that only precise data can expose particular weaknesses such as airtightness, HVAC performance etc. Acting on these insights through improved operations and measuring the impact of those changes, creates actionable evidences which will prove to real estate owners that energy efficiency is in their best interest. Accelerating the energy upgrade of the vast stocks of older building can both unlock a massive financial opportunity and lower global emissions.
Bluenote creates opportunity for data gathering agents to reap rewards for sharing data, thus incentivizing them to collect more and higher quality data. It is of immense benefits to building owners, engineers, lenders and investors as interested parties that require certain energy efficiency performance of a building can easily access data streams from participants with the use of Bluenote protocol, thus eliminating the need for conducting separate engineering studies, audits or evaluation regimes which takes longer period of time and consumes a lot of resources. Building managers and engineers get new resources and tools to create better performing buildings, lenders gain confidence in building investment through real-time performance and financial trading and utility companies can verify energy reductions and energy performance in real-time, enabling new pay-for-performance markets and models. All this will effectively help in unlocking trillions in global real estate value, bring enormous financial opportunities and tackle the largest source of pollution in the world.
THE BLUENOTE TOKEN
The Bluenote token is denoted by the symbol BNOW and it's an Ethereum ERC-20 compliant utility token that will be used to power the Bluenote network.
TOKEN SALE INFORMATION AND ITO DETAILS
Token Name Bluenote
Token Symbol BNOW
Price 1 BNOW = 0.01 CHF
Total Token Supply 12,500,000,000
Token Available for Sale 6,250,000,000
Platform ERC20
Accepting currency BTC
Soft cap 2,500,000 CHF (Reached)
Hard cap 20,000,000 CHF
KYC/AML Yes
Minimum Buy-in (Private sales) 2,500 CHF
Minimum Buy-in (Public sales) 100 CHF
Minimum Buy-in 1,000,000
Private Sale Date June, 2018 - Nov, 2018
Public Sale Date Dec, 2018 - 31 Jan, 2018
Restricted Country USA
CONCLUSION
Bluenote is clearly one of those rare spectacles only occasionally spotted in the blockchain space, a project which is heavy on genuine innovation yet light on hype. Bluenote is an innovative project that will revolutionize the commercial estate sector, it makes buildings more profitable, lowers the energy cost, increases the energy efficiency and drastically lowers carbon emission.
For more information and resources:
Bluenote Website
Bluenote WhitePaper
Bluenote Telegram
Bluenote Facebook
Bluenote Twitter
Bluenote LinkedIn
Bluenote Reddit
ETH ADDRESS - 0x5792d852cCdCAb3822F79A052d6bBD95Fc383755