How can We Tackle Energy Efficiency in IoT Based Smart Buildings?

Sensors

M. Victoria Moreno¹  Benito �²  Antonio F. Skarmeta² 

[1]Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain

关键词: internet of things;    smart building;    energy efficiency;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s140609582

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays, buildings are increasingly expected to meet higher and more complex performance requirements. Among these requirements, energy efficiency is recognized as an international goal to promote energy sustainability of the planet. Different approaches have been adopted to address this goal, the most recent relating consumption patterns with human occupancy. In this work, we analyze what are the main parameters that should be considered to be included in any building energy management. The goal of this analysis is to help designers to select the most relevant parameters to control the energy consumption of buildings according to their context, selecting them as input data of the management system. Following this approach, we select three reference smart buildings with different contexts, and where our automation platform for energy monitoring is deployed. We carry out some experiments in these buildings to demonstrate the influence of the parameters identified as relevant in the energy consumption of the buildings. Then, in two of these buildings are applied different control strategies to save electrical energy. We describe the experiments performed and analyze the results. The first stages of this evaluation have already resulted in energy savings of about 23% in a real scenario.

【 授权许可】

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