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SMART : experiences with e-services for smart buildings
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ECN
Energy in the Built Environment
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1-2-2002
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ECN-RX--02-002
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Conference Paper
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Presented at: ISPLC-2002, Athens, Greece, 27-29 maart 2002.
Abstract:
Apart from communication services in homes, orchestrating utility buildingswith PLC-technology provides a natural means for extending the scope
of installation control and energy management systems. Implementation
of this technology for establishing micro-networks in buildings and
for enhancing the scope of building management systems using last-mile
access to the Internet generates a promising application area.
The SMART-project focuses on disclosing this wealth of additional information
as a source for an extra level of optimisation of the operational strategy
of these software systems. The SMART project has the aim to show how
new smart building services, such as optimisation for energy efficiency
and individual comfort management, are possible on the basis of software
agent-mediated electronic marketplaces. Further aim is to show how the
communication and computation possibilities using the Internet and PLC
can be mobilised to decrease energy consumption and cost significantly
in a real-time energy-pricing environment and how more frequent feedback
and new feedback mechanisms add an extra contribution to this goal.
In the ISPLC-2001 conference the subject of what added value can be
attributed to Power-Line Communication services in managing energy consumption
in buildings was dealt with. In the present paper, the first results
of applying these services in a multi-disciplinary, real world, field-test
context are presented. The viewpoints discussed are the hardware and
software application architectural and computational aspects of a SEBOS
(Smart Enhanced scope Building Optimiser Shell)-shell that yields information
to existing building management and control systems. Critical, non-technical,
success factors in optimally designing the interfaces of this shell
to the building user community are important aspects in the SMART-project
and are also discussed.
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