Interoperability at the management level of building automation systems: A case study for BACnet and OPC UA

Fernbach, Andreas; Granzer, Wolfgang; Kästner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1109/etfa.2011.6059106

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“…The use of this form of data transmission prevents us from having to develop a new functionality in the agents in charge of receiving information from the sensors. The communication protocol used by the architecture is BACnet [ 58 ]. The radiators, heating and air conditioning systems that are part of the system are compatible with this protocol, which allows for the individual or group control of these devices via WiFi or ZigBee connection [ 59 ].…”

Section: System Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Optimization Using a Case-Based Reasoning Strategy

González‐Briones

Prieto

Prieta

et al. 2018

Sensors

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At present, the domotization of homes and public buildings is becoming increasingly popular. Domotization is most commonly applied to the field of energy management, since it gives the possibility of managing the consumption of the devices connected to the electric network, the way in which the users interact with these devices, as well as other external factors that influence consumption. In buildings, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems have the highest consumption rates. The systems proposed so far have not succeeded in optimizing the energy consumption associated with a HVAC system because they do not monitor all the variables involved in electricity consumption. For this reason, this article presents an agent approach that benefits from the advantages provided by a Multi-Agent architecture (MAS) deployed in a Cloud environment with a wireless sensor network (WSN) in order to achieve energy savings. The agents of the MAS learn social behavior thanks to the collection of data and the use of an artificial neural network (ANN). The proposed system has been assessed in an office building achieving an average energy savings of 41% in the experimental group offices.

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Section: System Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Optimization Using a Case-Based Reasoning Strategy

González‐Briones

Prieto

Prieta

et al. 2018

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123

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“…Dealing with heterogeneity in these applications has been studied in the literature [4], [17], however, no solution integrates a friendly user interface with a mechanism to coordinate distributed devices while hiding heterogeneity. Blockly has already been used to program wireless sensor network applications in smart environments [18].…”

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Coordination Scheme Editor for building management systems

Louvel

Pacull

Vergara-Gallego

2016

IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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International audienceThis paper presents our work on the Coordination Scheme Editor (CSE). This editor provides a web interface to design building automation rules. Rules are designed with a drag and drop programming. Then rules are validated, generated and activated in the buildings. CSE allows to define template rules. The rules are then instantiated in building rooms with the available sensors and actuators. CSE also offers a monitoring interface to know which scenario is impacted by one or several faulty sensors/actuators. The CSE relies on the LINC middleware to provide coordination across several building automation systems and sensors/actuators technologies

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“…To the best knowledge of the authors, the most up-to-date procedure to create an OPC information model for the BACnet data model was presented in [1] and [2], which covers the most important BACnet information (object and property) types, i.e. the mandatory types.…”

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Integration of Bacnet Opc Ua-Devices Using a Java Opc Ua SDK Server With Bacnet Open Source Library Implementation

Anantalapochai¹,

Sikora²,

Eberlein³

et al. 2014

IJC

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The variety of technologies used in modern Building Automation Systems (BAS) calls for methods to support interoperability of the devices from different technologies and vendors. OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture (=OPC UA) provides the possibility to enable secure inter operability of devices with platform independence and efficient information model features. However, OPC has not found broad space in the world of building automation, yet. In this paper, results and experiences from a project are presented, where BACnet devices are mapped to OPC UA standard models. The values and controls are presented by the OPC UA server running on an embedded device. In this paper, we map the BACnet information models into the corresponding OPC UA information models. The actual data (in OPC UA form) of the BACnet devices can be accessed by connecting an OPC UA Clients to the OPC UA Server. This objective was be pursued by using as many available open-source projects as possible.

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Interoperability at the management level of building automation systems: A case study for BACnet and OPC UA

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

Energy Optimization Using a Case-Based Reasoning Strategy

Energy Optimization Using a Case-Based Reasoning Strategy

Coordination Scheme Editor for building management systems

Integration of Bacnet Opc Ua-Devices Using a Java Opc Ua SDK Server With Bacnet Open Source Library Implementation

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