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Overview


The Building Energy Monitoring and Carbon Footprinting Demonstrator will provide a collaborative platform across a number of different groups within CLARITY and European industry collaborators, as well as providing an opportunity for existing and new partners to participate in a substantial development opportunity.

The overall aim of the demonstrator is to provide a opportunity for small to medium scale carbon footprinting. In brief, a wide range of sensor technologies will be used to measure and analyse the energy consumption, activity, and waste management profiles of individuals and groups of individuals in both home and small-office environments.

The primary output will include a software platform that is designed to work with a variety of expandable set of readily available sensor types, allowing the real-time harvesting and analysis of sensor information. In addition, a number of application prototypes will be developed to explore different ways in which the resulting information can be presented to end users with a view to communicating their personal carbon footprint in order to encourage engagement between individuals on this key environmental topic.The demonstrator has 3 main European associated projects in the space of building energy monitoring.

 

 European Projects

Project PI: Dr. Antonio Ruzzelli

The main objective of this project is the development of an innovative energy management system for existing and new residential buildings (BEMS), which pursues the increase of the efficiency of the energy used and the reduction of the global energy demand of the building, but without penalizing the comfort levels of the users. To the achievement of this goal, it will follow two main strategies:

  • Minimizing the energy demand from external resources, through the reduction of the energy consumption in the building and the correct management of local generation (heat and electricity) and energy storage equipment to satisfy the energy demand of the building, and even provide the capability to export energy to the utilities when needed.
  • Interaction with the building user, in such a way as to increase the consciousness of the consumer of his energy consumption and CO2 emissions, providing hints to make punctual changes in his behaviour without major disruptions of his comfort conditions.

 
Project PI: Dr. Antonio Ruzzelli

 

The objective of EnPROVE is to develop a software model for predicting the energy consumption of a specific building, with different scenarios implementing energy-efficient technologies and control solutions, based on actual measured performance and usage data of the building itself.

The key hypothesis of EnPROVE is that it is possible, from adequate gathering and assessing data on how a structure performs and is being used from an energy viewpoint, to build highly accurate and specific energy consumption models relevant for prediction of alternative scenarios.

 
Project PI: Dr. Antonio Ruzzelli

 

The main objective of HOBNET is to ease and maximize the use of FIRE platforms by multidisciplinary developers of Future Internet applications focused on automation and energy efficiency for smart/green buildings.

The project's research addresses algorithmic, networking and application development aspects of Future Internet systems of tiny embedded devices: a) an all IPv6/6LoWPAN infrastructure of buildings and how IPv6 can integrate heterogeneous technology (sensors, actuators, mobile devices etc) b) 6lowApp and its standardization towards a new embedded application protocol for building automation c) novel algorithmic models and scalable solutions for energy efficiency and radiation-awareness, data dissemination, localization and mobility d) rapid development and integration of building management applications e) support for the deployment and monitoring of resulting applications on FIRE test beds.

 

People: 

A.G. Ruzzelli,

EU-project PI

G.M.P. O'Hare,

CLARITY PI

M. Dragone,

Postdoc researcher

 

A. Schoofs,

PhD student

Xing Liu,

PhD student

A. Kazmi,

PhD student

A. Sintoni,

PhD student

  

 

Research Activities

  • Buildsys 2009, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009, Berkeley, US
    Buildsys 2010, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2010, Zurich, CH

    BuildSys is a selective forum for the presentation of research results on systems' issues in the area of building controls, energy management, embedded, and networked sensors. The workshop provides an ideal convergence venue for the Sensor, Building and Energy research communities to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems.

    For more information about BuildSys, please contact the general chair of the current edition available in the website.

  • EU-Weeb: European Workshop on ICT for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings

    Information and Communication Technology can greatly help achieving a significant energy reduction in new and existing  buildings, which is key to accomplish the European energy policy towards a low consumption economy and more sustainable energy.

    The School of Computer Science and Informatics is pleased to announce the Workshop on ICT for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings  as a networking event to facilitate synergy and harmonization between  the  EnPROVE, Energy Warden and FIEMSER projects funded by the European commission during the FP7 call 4.

 

Commercialization Effort

 

Available Software

RECAP:REcognition of Appliances Activity in Real-time