A framework for smart location-based automated energy controls in a green building testbed

Pan, Junjun; Jain, Raj; Biswas, Pratim; Wang, Weining; Addepalli, Sateesh

doi:10.1109/energytech.2012.6304645

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“…In this paper, we added new contributions besides summarizing our previous work regarding the IoT framework for smart energy in buildings. The work includes: (1) energy consumption data analysis of the green building testbed, (2) new smart location-based automated energy control framework designs, and (3) experimental prototype that applies IoT networking and computing technologies to improve the energy efficiency in buildings. We put them into a complete three-step research and added significant new contributions proving the ideas and concepts we proposed.…”

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“…Moreover, the proposed system also involves every user and organization to participate in the energy saving efforts, which is potentially a very good training and education method to encourage everyone to study and participate in resolving global climate and sustainability issues in everyday life. Further incorporation of social network plugin into the smart mobile phone based energy control platform would generate even broader impacts [2].…”

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“…We discuss a few of them briefly. Limited by the space, a longer list of the related work can be found in papers [2,3].…”

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An Internet of Things Framework for Smart Energy in Buildings: Designs, Prototype, and Experiments

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IEEE Internet Things J.

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Abstract-Smart energy in buildings is an important research area of Internet of Things (IoT).Buildings as important parts of the smart grids, their energy efficiency is vital for the environment and global sustainability. Using a LEED-gold-certificated green office building, we built a unique IoT experimental testbed for our energy efficiency and building intelligence research. We first monitor and collect one-year-long building energy usage data and then systematically evaluate and analyze them. The results show that due to the centralized and static building controls, the actual running of green buildings may not be energy efficient even though they may be "green" by design. Inspired by "energy proportional computing" in modern computers, we propose a IoT framework with smart location-based automated and networked energy control, which uses smartphone platform and cloud computing technologies to enable multi-scale energy proportionality including building-, user-, and organizational-level energy proportionality. We further build a proof-of-concept IoT network and control system prototype and carried out real-world experiments which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution. We envision that the broad application of the proposed solution has not only led to significant economic benefits in term of energy saving, improving home/office network intelligence, but also bought in a huge social implication in terms of global sustainability.

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An Internet of Things Framework for Smart Energy in Buildings: Designs, Prototype, and Experiments

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“…Applying such "active low-power modes" feature in building could avoid the transition penalties while maintaining the active status. Key components like HVAC in the buildings can be tuned to offer somewhat similar features like energy-proportional computers by adjusting the running policies dynamically [2] and consume less energy.…”

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“…Our study is based on a new on-campus green building testbed. Our previous work [2] was about the third step. Unlike many other existing works that are based solely on simulations, our work is based on real measured data for a currently in-use building testbed.…”

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Toward an Energy-Proportional Building prospect: Evaluation and analysis of the energy consumption in a green building testbed

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Biswas

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2013 IEEE Energytech

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Abstract-Energy efficiency for the buildings is vital for the environment and sustainability. Buildings are responsible for significant energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Using a LEED-gold-certified green office building we built a unique experimental testbed for a multi-disciplinary research project on energy efficiency. We collected the building energy data for almost a year's period through a networked metering infrastructure. In this paper, we systematically evaluate and analyze this data. The findings show that due to the centrally controlled Heating, Ventilation, Air-conditioning, and Cooling (HAVC) systems, the total energy consumption in large office buildings of this type is not proportional to the actual usage and occupancy. Even correlation to outside weather is low. Through the lessons learned from energy saving efforts in computer industry, we envision an Energy-Proportional Building design in future. The energy consumption of such buildings would be proportional to the actual usage and occupancy. We also discuss the key ideas we learned from computer industry for such buildings.

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Systematic Mapping Study on Energy Optimization Solutions in Smart Building Structure: Opportunities and Challenges

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A framework for smart location-based automated energy controls in a green building testbed

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

An Internet of Things Framework for Smart Energy in Buildings: Designs, Prototype, and Experiments

An Internet of Things Framework for Smart Energy in Buildings: Designs, Prototype, and Experiments

Toward an Energy-Proportional Building prospect: Evaluation and analysis of the energy consumption in a green building testbed

Systematic Mapping Study on Energy Optimization Solutions in Smart Building Structure: Opportunities and Challenges

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