Internet of Things for Green Building Management: Disruptive Innovations Through Low-Cost Sensor Technology and Artificial Intelligence

By Wayes Tushar, Nipun Wijerathne, Wen-Tai Li, Chau Yuen, H. Vincent Poor, Tapan Kumar Saha, Kristin L. Wood. 2018

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Buildings consume 60% of global electricity. However, current building management systems (BMSs) are highly expensive and difficult to justify for small- to medium-sized buildings. The Internet of Things (IoT), which can collect and monitor a large amount of data on different aspects of a building and feed the data to the BMS's processor, provides a new opportunity to integrate intelligence into the BMS for monitoring and managing a building's energy consumption to reduce costs. Although an extensive literature is available on, separately, IoTbased BMSs and applications of signal processing techniques for some building energy-management tasks, a detailed study of their integration to address the overall BMS is limited. As such, this article will address the current gap by providing an overview of an IoT-based BMS that leverages signal processing and machine-learning techniques. We demonstrate how to extract high-level building occupancy information through simple, low-cost IoT sensors and study how human activities impact a building's energy use-information that can be exploited to design energy conservation measures that reduce the building's energy consumption.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering

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A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, background): “For instance, fusion of building energy and building security data to develop a building management system [97]–[99] is an example of data fusion at building level.”
Peer-to-Peer Energy Systems for Connected Communities: A Review of Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges (2020, background): “2) Internet-of-Things: Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a platform that enables devices to communicate with one another and with humans over the internet to achieve various objectives, such as energy saving, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote monitoring and control [49].”