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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Building automation"”.
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Improving the security in interconnecting building automation systems to outside networks
… the control system. We validate our strategy on Building Automation System (BAS) testbed with a practical application which allows users to unlock doors of the building.
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The Development of an Economic Feasibility Decision Support System for a Building Automation and Control System
… energy practices has amplified the role of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) as a means of reducing building energy consumption, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing occupant comfort. Despite these advantages, the integration of BACS in developing regions such as …
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Decentralised protocol-independent automation in smart buildings
Providing automation and reacting in time are primary functions of a modern smart building. That is done thanks to sensors and actuators distributed across the architecture. Smart building devices employ a diverse set of communication protocols, and the number of such devices grows every year. A …
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technologies Toward Smart and Autonomous Buildings
… has led to the emergence of smart buildings as a critical domain of innovation. These buildings leverage Internet of Things (IoT) devices, building automation systems, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize operations, reduce energy consumption, and enhance …
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Adaptive thermal comfort computation with Zigbee wireless sensor networks
… sensor networks have been commonly used in home automation, building automation, personal health care and fitness, consumer electronics, telecom services etc. In our thesis we investigate Zigbee's application in computing thermal comfort in indoor environments as an extension of home automation …
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Reasoning under partial observability in heterogeneous networked systems
… services rely on such systems, including building automation, cloud applications, industrial monitoring, and connected medical or sensor devices. In these systems, overall behavior is shaped by configuration choices, such as access rules, control logic, and communication settings, and by …
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Active participation of buildings in the power sector : the case of small office buildings
… decarbonization of the energy sector, commercial buildings are well-suited for providing ancillary services to the electricity grid and poised to transform from passive consumers to active electricity market participants. A data-driven multi-zonal thermal response model is formulated and fit to …
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Natural ventilation in buildings : modeling, control and optimization
Natural ventilation in buildings has the potential to reduce the energy consumption usually associated with mechanical cooling while maintaining thermal comfort and air quality. It is important to know how building parameters, in particular its thermal mass properties and heat loads incurred, …
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Design and Implementation of a Secure Web Platform for a Building Energy Management Open Source Software
Commercial buildings consume more than 40% of the total energy consumption in the United States. Almost 90% of these buildings are small- and medium-sized buildings that do not have a Building Energy Management (BEM) system. The reasons behind this are – lack of awareness, unavailability of …
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Adaptable, scalable, probabilistic fault detection and diagnostic methods for the HVAC secondary system
As the popularity of building automation system (BAS) increases, there is an increasing need to understand/analyze the HVAC system behavior with the monitoring data. However, the current constraints prevent FDD technology from being widely accepted, which include: 1)Difficult to understand the …
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The Evolution of the Chief Technology Officer and the Modernization of Technology in Education
… operations as well by assisting in or managing building automation controls which can include lighting, heating and cooling along with physical security which includes security cameras and access control systems.</p> <p>With this rapid change of technology’s usage, the rise in the individuals …
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A BIM-based Interoperability Platform in Support of Building Operation and Energy Management
Building energy efficiency is progressively becoming a crucial topic in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector. Energy management tools have been developed to promise appropriate energy savings. Building energy simulation (BES) is a tool mainly used to analyze and compare the …
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Design and Development of an Internet-Of-Things (IoT) Gateway for Smart Building Applications
… utilization of electricity in commercial buildings, which contribute significantly to the overall electricity consumption. Accordingly, there has been a number of Building Energy Management (BEM) software/hardware solutions to monitor energy consumption and other measurements of individual …
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A Framework to Support the Development of Manually Adjustable Light Shelf Technologies
… solutions, which are often controlled by building automation systems. This research proposes a framework to support the development of daylight harvesting mechanisms, which will allow for low-tech yet temporary adjustable systems, merging some of the advantages of active systems with …
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Human-centered Ambient Artificial Intelligence In Smart Buildings
… of context awareness, including user persona, building operations, and human states, as key components of an envisioned integrated smart built environment framework. First, a nationwide survey (N =307) quantified how demographics, prior smart home experience, and personal values shape users …
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Semantics for the Web of Things: Modeling the Physical World as a Collection of Things and Reasoning with their Descriptions
… semantic discovery framework on two use cases: a building automation use case provided by Intel Labs and an industrial control use case developed internally at Siemens. The relations to discover often involve anonymous nodes in the knowledge graph: the chapter also introduces a novel skolemization …
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Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments
… domains that can benefit from IoT include smart buildings, smart cities, smart water, smart agriculture, smart animal farming, smart metering, security and emergencies, retail, logistics, industrial control, and health care. For decades, building automation, intelligent buildings, and more …
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Mining Functional and Structural Relationships of Context Variables in Smart-Buildings
… IoT devices are penetrating the home and office building environments. According to current estimates, about 35 billion IoT devices will be connected by the year 20212. In the IoT business model, value comes from integrating devices into applications, e.g., home and office automation. In general, …
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Nové laboratorní úlohy pro předmět "Automatizace budov"
Tato diplomová práce rozšiřuje možnosti výuky předmětu „Automatizace budov“ o dvě oblasti. První oblastí je vizualizace KNX výukového panelu, která je provedena prostřednictvím softwarového balíku iRidium a to v několika variantách. Druhou oblastí je návrh a výroba výukového panelu se spínači …
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