Energy efficient building automation: A survey paper on approaches and technologies for optimized building operation

Abstract

Building automation is a trusted technology to ensure user comfort in buildings. Today the challenge is not only to provide comfort, but to do it while having a close eye on the energy performance of the building. Distributed, renewable energy sources, advances in IT and tighter legislative constraints offer and demand changes in the way we operate buildings. We look at the core fields that enable building operation: monitoring of operation data, controls, automation and the management organization to show that innovation can be achieved by integrating cross-domain knowledge and getting inspirations from other domains, where existing approaches and technologies can be used and transferred to the domain of building automation.

A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings

“…In fact, building management systems have been utilizing increasingly extensive sensor networks, but these networks often fail to correctly collect building occupancy data [155] and therefore do not effectively leverage total energy consumption data as a measurement of individual occupant's energy consumption. The fact that there are so few publications about approaches for monitoring occupant-specific energy use [156][157][158][159], gives evidence to the fact that less attention has been paid to this approach than to the other two main approaches (i.e., simulation and improvement of occupants' energy consumption). However, the success of simulation and improvement approaches highly depends on detailed occupant-specific energy consumption.…”

Building Information Modeling and Digital Twin Approaches in Building Automation and Distributed IoT Networks – Review and New Challenges Discussion

“…In the context of designing building infrastructure and building automation systems supported by BIM and DT tools, attention should also be paid to the problem of fragmentation and granularity resulting from the technical nature of these systems [57]. Modern BACS are distributed in nature, and assuming their integration with IoT solutions, other fieldbus networks and edge level modules [2,10,11,53,58], the granularity will increase, which is a problem and a challenge in building effective BIM, but also in the organization and integration of data acquisition structures for DT discussed in [59].…”

Đánh Giá Hiệu Năng Hoạt Động Của Giao Thức Định Tuyến RPL Với Các Hàm Mục Tiêu Khác Nhau

“…Người ta đã dự đoán rằng số lượng các đối tượng thông minh sẽ tăng lên tới hàng tỉ thiết bị trong 10 năm tới và sẽ có những thay đổi cơ bản trong cách thức để con người tương tác với cả thế giới số và thế giới vật lý. Mạng các đối tượng thông minh có rất nhiều ứng dụng tiềm năng như tự động hóa tòa nhà [2], ngôi nhà thông minh [3], tự động hóa trong sản xuất công nghiệp [4], lưới điện thông minh [5], thành phố thông minh, hệ thống theo dõi sức khỏe [6].…”