Management and monitoring of public buildings through ICT based systems: Control rules for energy saving with lighting and HVAC services

Aghemo, Chiara; Virgone, Joseph; Fracastoro, Giovanni Vincenzo; Pellegrino, Anna; Blaso, Laura; Savoyat, Jérôme; Johannes, Kévyn

doi:10.1016/j.foar.2012.11.001

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“…Another comment made by van Arem et al [20] states that "The Keys to Success in Transportation Systems are Networks and Information". Aghemo, C. et al [21] note that one of the major challenges in today's society concerns the reduction in energy use and CO2 footprint in existing public buildings without significant construction works. In this context, key challenges are concerned with the design and the development of a monitoring and control infrastructure to manage appliances so as to effortlessly optimize energy efficiency usage without compromising comfort for occupants in lighting and HVAC (Heating, ventilating and air conditioning) services and to offer to decision makers dedicated tools to plan and manage energy saving strategies.…”

Section: Energy Plus Knowledge Equals Smart Utilities and Smart Citiementioning

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“…Nevertheless savings can be achieved by designing intelligent ICT-based service to monitor and control environmental conditions, energy loads and plants operation. [21] It would be proper here to recall IBM effort in 'smart planet' and European plans for Green Europe. In the year 2010, IBM started a move that they called then "Let's build a smarter planet" and declared "The decade for a smarter planet".…”

Section: Energy Plus Knowledge Equals Smart Utilities and Smart Citiementioning

confidence: 99%

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Future of Humanity: Energy and Knowledge Engineering

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Energy has become the keyword relevant to the economic and social development and sustainability of all countries as well as the ecological future of the world. Knowledge-based strategic planning and decisions in energy are therefore very crucial for all. Knowledge may be defined as the information needed for good planning and intelligent decisions for any human being, from a lay man to a top man in a public or private organization up to even the country president. In the article, after some introductory remarks about energy and knowledge, knowledge -energy relation is defined. Smart cities and intelligent utilities / smart energy, Energy Engineering and Knowledge Engineering terms are also elaborated. As a conclusion, the synergy and even a symbiosis between energy and knowledge is noted and it is stated that energy engineering and knowledge engineering together with nano science and technology will be very crucial for the future of humanity.

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“…Other important measures regard the improvement of heating systems and the installation of PV systems. It is worth to be noted that only few investments are expected for solar control devices and for control and management systems, despite these interventions can be very effective in terms of energy savings (Aghemo et al, 2013;Torriti, 2014).…”

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Energy efficiency in buildings: What drives the investments? The case of Lombardy Region

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“…Several previous research initiatives have highlighted the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as key enablers to decrease energy usage in buildings [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and thus, they can help us to attain the new targets set in the recently agreed 2030 climate and energy policy framework for the European Union [9]: a 27% improvement in energy efficiency, 27% of energy consumption from renewable resources, and a 40% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, in relation to 1990 levels. However and as shown by the in-depth reviews presented by Shaikh et al [1], Beaudin et al [2] and Khan et al [3], most of the works performed focus on domestic energy management systems and leave undetermined how ICT systems can cope with different scales of buildings where the complexity of the optimisation increases [4].…”

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SEAM4US: An intelligent energy management system for underground stations

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Aquesta és una còpia de la versió author's final draft d'un article publicat a la revista Applied energy. URL d'aquest document a UPCommons E-prints: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/87703 Article publicat / Published paper:Casals, M., Gangolells, M., Forcada, N., Macarulla, M., Giretti, A., Vaccarini, M. (2016) SEAM4US: an intelligent energy management system for underground stations. . Aquesta versió està disponible sota la llicència CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 1 Casals M., Gangolells M., Forcada N., Macarulla M., Giretti A., Vaccarini M. SEAM4US: an intelligent energy management system for underground stations. Applied Energy, 2016, 166: 150-164. ABSTRACT Several previous research initiatives have highlighted the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as key enablers for decreasing energy usage in buildings. However, few advances have been achieved in underground public spaces. This paper introduces a novel intelligent energy management system for underground stations. The system implements artificial intelligence solutions for autonomous building system control, based on advanced control algorithms that can learn from previous operations and situations. The robustness needed to operate in public spaces is achieved through a seamlessly integrated monitoring grid with self-diagnosis mechanisms. A middleware platform integrates existing devices, subsystems and newly deployed sensor-actuator networks. Results obtained during the implementation of the system in a prototype underground station showed potential yearly energy savings ranging between 74,336 and 87,339 kWh. The highest energy savings potential was found in the ventilation subsystem (30.6 % ± 2.0%), followed by the lighting system (24.1% ± 1.9%) and escalators (8.5% ± 1.9%).

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Management and monitoring of public buildings through ICT based systems: Control rules for energy saving with lighting and HVAC services

Cited by 51 publications

References 16 publications

Future of Humanity: Energy and Knowledge Engineering

Future of Humanity: Energy and Knowledge Engineering

Energy efficiency in buildings: What drives the investments? The case of Lombardy Region

SEAM4US: An intelligent energy management system for underground stations

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