Kilavi platform for wireless building automation

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

Santa

Zamora

et al. 2014

Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision towards Future Internet where "things" are provided with enough intelligence to communicate with each other without the human intervention. In the near future, the number of IoT-enabled nodes is expected to grow substantially, therefore the heterogeneous nature of implementations demands effective IoT deployments that ensure proper interoperability and reliability of network infrastructures. In this line, we present a holistic IoT-based platform to gather and analyze information, and propose concrete actions according to different goals in smart environments. This platform bases on the optimal integration and use of data collected from a plethora of different sources. It has been deployed in a real IoT context framed in the smart buildings field. For its validation and evaluation, a reference scenario for indoor energy efficiency and comfort has been considered, where a set of tests have been carried out to validate the building management techniques implemented to maintain user comfort while assuring a good energy balance.

Section: A Technologies Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

A holistic IoT-based management platform for smart environments

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

Santa

Zamora

et al. 2014

“…, there is no friendly local interface for users, and most importantly, integration with energy efficiency capabilities is weak. The work presented in [20] is based on a sensor network to cope with the building automation problem for control and monitoring purposes. It provides the means for open standard manufacturer-independent communication between different sensors and actuators, and appliances can interact with each other with defined messages and functions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can We Tackle Energy Efficiency in IoT BasedSmart Buildings?

Ubeda

Skarmeta

et al. 2014

Sensors

116

Nowadays, buildings are increasingly expected to meet higher and more complex performance requirements. Among these requirements, energy efficiency is recognized as an international goal to promote energy sustainability of the planet. Different approaches have been adopted to address this goal, the most recent relating consumption patterns with human occupancy. In this work, we analyze what are the main parameters that should be considered to be included in any building energy management. The goal of this analysis is to help designers to select the most relevant parameters to control the energy consumption of buildings according to their context, selecting them as input data of the management system. Following this approach, we select three reference smart buildings with different contexts, and where our automation platform for energy monitoring is deployed. We carry out some experiments in these buildings to demonstrate the influence of the parameters identified as relevant in the energy consumption of the buildings. Then, in two of these buildings are applied different control strategies to save electrical energy. We describe the experiments performed and analyze the results. The first stages of this evaluation have already resulted in energy savings of about 23% in a real scenario.

“…However, the system proposed lacks automation flexibility, because each node of the network only offers limited I/O capabilities through digital lines, that is, there is no friendly local interface for users in the house, and, what is most important, the integration of energy efficiency capabilities is weak. The work presented in is based on a sensor network to cope with the building automation problem for control and monitoring purposes. It provides the means for open standard manufacturer‐independent communication between different sensors and actuators, and appliances can interact with each other with defined messages and functions.…”

Section: Solutions To Energy Efficiency In Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

User‐centric smart buildings for energy sustainable smart cities

Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech.

Zamora

Skarmeta

2013

Over six billion people are expected to live in cities and surrounding regions by 2050. Consequently, in the near future, the autonomic and smart operation of cities may be a critical requirement to improve the economic, social, and environmental well‐being of citizens. Smart urban technologies represent an important contribution to the sustainable development of cities, making smart cities a reality. In this sense, the energy sustainability of cities has become a global concern, bringing with it a wide range of research and technological challenges that affect many aspects of people's lives. Because most of the human lifetime is spent indoors, buildings, which make up a city subsystem, require special attention. Indeed, buildings are the cornerstone in terms of power consumption and CO2 emissions on a global scale. In this paper, we analyze the role that buildings play in terms of their energy performance at city level and present an energy‐efficient management system integrated in a building automation platform based on an Internet of Things approach. Occupants play a crucial role in the system's operation to achieve energy efficient building performance, and any impact on self‐sustainable smart cities will be a consequence of efficient user‐centric smart building designs. Our proposal represents a user‐centric smart solution as a contribution to the energy sustainability of modern cities. The building management platform has been deployed in a real (smart) building, in which a set of tests were carried out to assess different concerns involved in the building's infrastructure management. The first stages of this experiment have already resulted in an energy saving in heating of about 20% at building level, which could translate into a reduction of 8% in the energy consumption of buildings at a European city level. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.