A green roof is a specialized roof system that supports vegetation growth on rooftops.This technology is rapidly gaining popularity as a sustainable design option for buildings.In order to contribute to an understandi...A green roof is a specialized roof system that supports vegetation growth on rooftops.This technology is rapidly gaining popularity as a sustainable design option for buildings.In order to contribute to an understanding of green roof in regions with cold winters and snow,an on-site experimental investigation was present with a focus on the assessment of green roof performance during the winter.This field experiment took place on a six small buildings during the winter of 2010-2011.The work monitored three buildings with green roofs,two buildings with reference roofs and one building with a bare soil coverage for the roof.These six buildings were identically constructed and instrumented with sensor networks to provide heat flux data through the roofs.The 15 min averaged data were statistically analyzed for a week under the two separate periods,first without a snow cover and second with a snow cover.The results show that the roof type is a significant factor in affecting the thermal performance of these buildings.Most importantly,green roofs reduce heat flow through the roof and thus reduce the heating energy demand during the winter.However,the energy savings for buildings with the green roofs are reduced under snow conditions because the snow diminishes thermal resistance of the roof and increases the heat transfer process through the roofs.展开更多
Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of ...Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of electric appliances.The basic motivation of our solution is to utilize the collaboration among a mass of low-cost sensor nodes and actuator nodes to make life convenient.To achieve it,we design a novel system architecture with assembled component modules.In particular,we address some key technical challenges:1) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Implementation of Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) for audio data;2) FPGA Implementation of Lempel Ziv Storer Szymanski (LZSS) for bulk data;3) combination of complex control logic.Finally,a set of experiments are presented to evaluate the performance of our solution.展开更多
基金Project(CMMI-0900486) supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, USA
文摘A green roof is a specialized roof system that supports vegetation growth on rooftops.This technology is rapidly gaining popularity as a sustainable design option for buildings.In order to contribute to an understanding of green roof in regions with cold winters and snow,an on-site experimental investigation was present with a focus on the assessment of green roof performance during the winter.This field experiment took place on a six small buildings during the winter of 2010-2011.The work monitored three buildings with green roofs,two buildings with reference roofs and one building with a bare soil coverage for the roof.These six buildings were identically constructed and instrumented with sensor networks to provide heat flux data through the roofs.The 15 min averaged data were statistically analyzed for a week under the two separate periods,first without a snow cover and second with a snow cover.The results show that the roof type is a significant factor in affecting the thermal performance of these buildings.Most importantly,green roofs reduce heat flow through the roof and thus reduce the heating energy demand during the winter.However,the energy savings for buildings with the green roofs are reduced under snow conditions because the snow diminishes thermal resistance of the roof and increases the heat transfer process through the roofs.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61070206,No.61070205and No.60833009the National973Project of China under Grant No.2011CB302701+2 种基金the program of New Century Excellent Talents in University of China under Grant No.NCET-080737the Beijing National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.4092030the Cosponsored Project of Beijing Committee of Education
文摘Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of electric appliances.The basic motivation of our solution is to utilize the collaboration among a mass of low-cost sensor nodes and actuator nodes to make life convenient.To achieve it,we design a novel system architecture with assembled component modules.In particular,we address some key technical challenges:1) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Implementation of Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) for audio data;2) FPGA Implementation of Lempel Ziv Storer Szymanski (LZSS) for bulk data;3) combination of complex control logic.Finally,a set of experiments are presented to evaluate the performance of our solution.
