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Monitoring & Analysis Program of Prison Sites for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Abstract
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice
(TDCJ) and the Energy Systems Laboratory
(ESL) at Texas A&M University have
collaborated to extend the LoanSTAR
Monitoring & Analysis Program to Texas' prison
facilities. Data loggers are in place in eleven
1,000-bed prison units recording the energy use
patterns of the administration, kitchen, laundry,
medical, training, and inmate housing units.
Specialized software has been developed that
will allow TDCJ personnel to customize the data
presentation and analysis in-house.
A second effort involved the development of
a Utility Billing Audit Database program. This
database accepts customized entry of the utility
bill calculation parameters from the utility
company rate schedules and contracts, and
provides storage of the parameters for monthly
auditing of billed amounts. Storage of all the
entered monthly data allows for exporting of the
data to satisfy reporting requirements for the
Texas State Agency Natural Resources End-Use
Database (SANRED) (B. Hunn et a1 1995) and
other internal TDCJ reporting needs. Bills for all
monthly purchases of electricity, natural gas,
water, waste water, and solid waste removal are
audited using this software.
Citation
Eggebracht, J. A.; Heneghan, T. (1996). Monitoring & Analysis Program of Prison Sites for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6686.