Context aware building energy management system with heterogeneous wireless network architecture

Y, Raja Vara Prasad and P, Rajalakshmi (2013) Context aware building energy management system with heterogeneous wireless network architecture. In: 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC 2013, 23-24 April, 2013, Dubai; United Arab Emirates.

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Abstract

Energy wastage in buildings is to be minimized to reduce the carbon footprint of electricity. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) have been providing solutions for effective energy management within buildings. In this paper, we present a decisive server based context aware energy management system for smart buildings through Cyber Physical System (CPS) models. A layered architecture for building energy management is proposed to enhance scalability of the system. Heterogeneous wireless network based multiple radio gateway is proposed and implemented to make the system more adaptive to different applications catering to variable data rates. A smart room test bed is deployed in the IIT Hyderabad campus, where the decisive server collects various physical parameters through sensors, and based on the context generates wireless control messages to power electronics based actuators. Integrating context awareness into the system increases the efficiency in terms of energy savings and was observed to be significant, around 30%. The paper also presents a detailed analysis on the turnaround time required to realise the real saving after recovering investments. Applications are developed to integrate smart phones and tabloids providing web enablement to the end user. In this paper, each of the sensors and actuators in the smart room are associated with a state machine, which enables modelling of the system using Hybrid automata for future scope of applications.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
P, Rajalakshmi	UNSPECIFIED

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Additional Information:

We also sincerely thank our Project staff CP.Srinivasu, Ruchi Tripathi and V.Anvesh for making this test bed implementation successful.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

building energy management; cognitive server; context awareness; Cyber Physical Systems; heterogeneous wireless networks; state machines; turnaround time

Subjects:

Others > Electricity
Others > Electronic imaging & Singal processing
Others > Engineering technology

Divisions:

Department of Electrical Engineering

Depositing User:

Library Staff

Date Deposited:

26 Mar 2015 07:31

Last Modified:

26 Aug 2015 09:53

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/1428