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A significant amount of energy in the buildings can be saved by inducing efficient occupant behavior. The occupant's awareness tools that have been shown to be effective in achieving energy efficiency gains depend on various computational and estimation algorithms. This paper proposes an energy feedback scheme that relies on a model based, building thermal simulation in order to identify the areas...
This paper presents an approach to automatically create a knowledge base for smart buildings and let it dynamically evolve based on the behaviors of the occupants inside. Such a knowledge base compromises all life-style experiences and intelligent buildings. Accordingly, management decisions and control can be performed. To achieve the goal, an online learning algorithm is used which is designed to...
This paper proposes and validates a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) engine for the Smart-Building (SB). It strives to virtualize the common elements found within it and integrates them transparently to an existing Building Management System (BMS), along with existing infrastructure. Thanks to this integration layer, the building management and its control intelligence are completely agnostic to the...
Localizing, identifying and authenticating the individual occupants is of paramount importance for the future intelligent buildings. Although the performance of outdoor positioning systems is sufficiently good, the indoor ones have still to converge to a universal interoperable technology. This paper proposes a hybrid, unified localization architecture for indoor and outdoor tracking of the building...
This paper addresses a bottom-up approach for energy management in buildings. Future smart cities will need smart citizens, thus developing an interface to connect humans to their energy usage becomes a necessity. The goal is to give a touch of energy to occupants' daily behaviours and activities and making them aware of their decisions' consequences in terms of energy consumption, its cost and carbon...
This paper presents the system architecture of an event-based building management platform. By incorporating the distributed computing technologies in its core, it is able to adaptively scale horizontally without the redesign and the configuration downtime. The commodity hardware and networks used, permit vertical scaling if performance requirements change after the deployment. Additionally, the proposed...
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