Get Your Arms Around Your
Schools with Tracer ES™
The Trane Solution
Tracer ES accommodates the
needs of school districts and
other institutions that operate
multiple facilities. The Tracer ES
software resides on a central
server that can be accessed from
any secure Internet connection.
Its open, non-proprietary design
enables integration and commu-
nication with both Trane and
non-Trane systems.
Facility management staff can
use Tracer ES to remotely monitor
and control energy management,
lighting and HVAC systems
throughout the district to
positively impact operational
efficiency, student performance
and operating costs.
To learn more about Tracer ES,
visit www.Trane.com or contact
a Tracer ES Product Specialist
at 1-800-TRACER1.
Schools must accomplish the seemingly impossible task of containing costs
while increasing indoor air quality, comfort and student performance. Tracer ES™,
Trane’s web-based building automation solution, can help you overcome the
complex challenges of today’s school environments.
School superintendents, facility managers and building operators face many
obstacles when trying to meet the combined demands of faculty, students,
school boards, communities and government. Facility management issues can
become major concerns due to their impact on operational efficiency, energy
and maintenance costs and student performance.
Student Performance Challenges:
• Studies show that student test scores were up to 17% higher in schools with better
environmental conditions, especially as they relate to classroom temperature and
humidity.1 This places even more importance on finding ways to control indoor
space conditions and create the best possible learning environment.
• The link between poor indoor air quality and poor student health, performance
and attendance has created a strong push from government to enhance school
environments. Improving air quality is a major challenge for schools that lack
systems to effectively monitor and control their indoor air conditions.
Student Performance Solution:
Tracer ES can support efforts to boost student performance and attendance
by helping maintain comfortable, healthy learning environments. Room
temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide levels can be continuously
monitored and controlled to detect variances before they affect air quality
and comfort. These improved conditions will greatly contribute to the health
and success of both students and teachers.
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Earthman, Glen I., (2002), School Facility
Conditions and Student Academic Achievement.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
 School facilities feel performance,
productivity and budget pressures

Staff Productivity Challenges:
• Maintenance and operation
departments are asked to do more
with fewer employees as school
operating budgets are tightened.
Personnel are strained even further
because school buildings are
used for extracurricular and
community events.
• Schools lack effective tools to
simplify the management of
multiple facilities. As a result,
building managers and operators
are forced to allocate an inordinate
amount of time to make individual
temperature and lighting adjust-
ments along with other repetitive
and inefficient tasks.
• Building automation systems
purchased with the goal of
enhancing operational efficiency
are often misused or underused,
especially if building personnel
find them intimidating or difficult
to operate.
manager and operator time.
Whether it’s a surprise assembly,
weather-related closing or a
classroom complaint, Tracer ES
operators are able to make online
adjustments to temperature and
system schedules from virtually any
PC. A web-based design and
simple-to-operate search engine
make Tracer ES easy to use,
regardless of the operator’s level
of comfort and experience with
computer-based technology.
Operating Cost Challenges:
• Energy costs represent a significant
operating expense; and rising
costs make forecasting difficult.
It is imperative to control energy
consumption and develop energy
reduction strategies.
• Expenditures for purchasing,
licensing and maintaining
hardware and software are a
continuous drain on budgets
and personnel.
• The use of proprietary technology
increases costs by locking
schools into a single vendor
for system additions, which
effectively eliminates options
for competitive bidding.
Operating Cost Solution:
Tracer ES is built on an open
platform and connects with both
Trane and non-Trane systems,
so schools aren’t locked into a
single, proprietary vendor. A
modular design helps ease the
strain on budgets by reducing
expenditures on unwanted or
unnecessary features. Because
Tracer ES resides on a central
server, districts will see a reduction
in the costs of establishing and
maintaining multiple software
and hardware platforms.

Staff Productivity Solution: • Unbudgeted or surprise costs

By enabling remote, online access
to building systems across the
district, Tracer ES eliminates
many of the inefficient tasks that
consume so much facility
associated with building system
maintenance and upgrades place
added strain on operating budgets.

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Date September 2005
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