Privacy preservation is a crucial issue for smart buildings where all kinds of messages, e.g., power usage data, control commands, events, alarms, etc. are transmitted to accomplish the management of power. Without ap...Privacy preservation is a crucial issue for smart buildings where all kinds of messages, e.g., power usage data, control commands, events, alarms, etc. are transmitted to accomplish the management of power. Without appropriate privacy protection schemes, electricity customers are faced with various privacy risks. Meanwhile, the natures of smart grids and smart buildings—such as having limited computation power of smart devices and constraints in communication network capabilities, while requiring being highly reliable—make privacy preservation a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a group key scheme to safeguard multicast privacy with the provisions of availability, fault-tolerance, and efficiency in the context of smart buildings as a part the smart grid. In particular, hybrid architecture accommodating both centralized and contributory modes is constructed in order to achieve both fault-tolerance and efficiency with only one set of group key installed. Key trees are sophisticatedly managed to reduce the number of exponentiation operations. In addition, an individual rekeying scheme is introduced for occasional joining and leaving of member smart meters. Experimental results, on a simulation platform, show that our scheme is able to provide significant performance gains over state-of-the-art methods while effectively preserving the participants’ privacy.展开更多
Recent advances in information and communications technology(ICT) have initiated development of a smart electrical grid and smart buildings. Buildings consume a large portion of the total electricity production worldw...Recent advances in information and communications technology(ICT) have initiated development of a smart electrical grid and smart buildings. Buildings consume a large portion of the total electricity production worldwide, and to fully develop a smart grid they must be integrated with that grid. Buildings can now be"prosumers"on the grid(both producers and consumers), and the continued growth of distributed renewable energy generation is raising new challenges in terms of grid stability over various time scales. Buildings can contribute to grid stability by managing their overall electrical demand in response to current conditions. Facility managers must balance demand response requests by grid operators with energy needed to maintain smooth building operations.For example, maintaining thermal comfort within an occupied building requires energy and, thus an optimized solution balancing energy use with indoor environmental quality(adequate thermal comfort, lighting, etc.) is needed. Successful integration of buildings and their systems with the grid also requires interoperable data exchange. However, the adoption and integration of newer control and communication technologies into buildings can be problematic with older legacy HVAC and building control systems.Public policy and economic structures have not kept up with the technical developments that have given rise to the budding smart grid, and further developments are needed in both technical and non-technical areas.展开更多
Buildings are becoming smarter as a result of a variety of advanced technologies that enable energy management, optimal space utilization, and smart surveillance for safety, among other things. Energy-efficient smart ...Buildings are becoming smarter as a result of a variety of advanced technologies that enable energy management, optimal space utilization, and smart surveillance for safety, among other things. Energy-efficient smart building ideas and execution are of great interest and top priority due to the building’s occupants’ misused and high-power consumption. This paper addresses the design and execution of an energy management system that includes a solar power system for generating power for the building’s needs and a PIR-based automation system for efficient power use. This project was carried out at the Military Technological College (MTC) in Muscat, in the system engineering department’s offices. This project seeks to generate power for the building’s energy needs using solar photovoltaic panels and reduce energy consumption within the office using a PIR-based automation system. The results demonstrate that after the breakeven point (the time it takes to recoup the initial investment), it can provide power to the building for another 17 years. The calculations and practical results presented in this study approve that the system is extremely helpful.展开更多
This paper presents the design of a wireless building monitoring network implemented at the University of Nottingham's Creative Energy Homes test site.The network is installed in seven smart buildings with the aim...This paper presents the design of a wireless building monitoring network implemented at the University of Nottingham's Creative Energy Homes test site.The network is installed in seven smart buildings with the aim of holistically collecting energy data.Data will be used to inform a central control algorithm to optimise the energy flows between buildings,in turn promoting the smart cities concept.Sensors and meters measuring temperature,humidity,CO_2,heat energy,power,and stratified tank temperature are described.Furthermore,the communication protocols utilised are also discussed,which include wireless MBus and EnOcean.This paper also covers the methods used for ensuring the reliability of data signals and the system controls.展开更多
This paper presents a study to optimize the heating energy costs in a residential building with varying electricity price signals based on an Economic Model Predictive Controller (EMPC). The investigated heating syste...This paper presents a study to optimize the heating energy costs in a residential building with varying electricity price signals based on an Economic Model Predictive Controller (EMPC). The investigated heating system consists of an air source heat pump (ASHP) incorporated with a hot water tank as active Thermal Energy Storage (TES), where two optimization problems are integrated together to optimize both the ASHP electricity consumption and the building heating consumption utilizing a heat dynamic model of the building. The results show that the proposed EMPC can save the energy cost by load shifting compared with some reference cases.展开更多
In its broadest interpretation, the smart grid vision sees the future of power industry transformed by the introduction of intelligent two-way communications, ubiquitous metering and measurement. This enables much fin...In its broadest interpretation, the smart grid vision sees the future of power industry transformed by the introduction of intelligent two-way communications, ubiquitous metering and measurement. This enables much finer control of energy flows and the integration and efficient use of renewable forms of energy, energy efficiency methodologies and technologies, as well as many other advanced technologies, techniques and processes that wouldn’t have been practicable until present. The smart grid vision also enables the creation of more reliable, more robust and more secure power supply infrastructure, and helps optimize the enormous investments required to build and operate the physical infrastructure required. The smart grid promises to revolutionize the electric power business that has been in place for the past 75 years. This work discusses the efficiency, targeted at the consumer units of electricity, with a view to sustainability and potential for technological innovation. The issue is addressed from two perspectives: the systems for generation and power distribution, and the design of a building “smart energy”. Because of the novelty of the subject in our country, the concepts presented and treated throughout this work come from material obtained at events and specialized sites on electric power system in Brazil and worldwide, being accompanied by information and data from NIPE’s building at University of Campinas’s campus case study in which it exemplifies the applicability of the techniques and recommended technologies.展开更多
This work investigates the economic, social, and environmental impact of adopting different smart lighting architectures for home automation in two geographical and regulatory regions: Algiers, Algeria, and Stuttgart,...This work investigates the economic, social, and environmental impact of adopting different smart lighting architectures for home automation in two geographical and regulatory regions: Algiers, Algeria, and Stuttgart, Germany. Lighting consumes a considerable amount of energy, and devices for smart lighting solutions are among the most purchased smart home devices. As commercialized solutions come with variant features, we empirically evaluate through this study the impact of each one of the energy-related features and provide insights on those that have higher energy saving contribution. The study started by investigating the state-of-the-art of commercialized ICT-based light control solutions, which allowed the extraction of the energy-related features. Based on the outcomes of this study, we generated simulation scenarios and selected evaluations metrics to evaluate the impact of dimming, daylight harvesting, scheduling, and motion detection. The simulation study has been conducted using EnergyPlussimulation tool, which?enables fine-grained realistic evaluation. The results show that adopting smart lighting technologies have a payback period of few years and that the use of these technologies has positive economic and societal impacts, as well as on the environment by considerably reducing gas emissions. However, this positive contribution is highly sensitive to the geographical location, energy prices, and the occupancy profile.展开更多
The ways which are used today in order to light houses, offices, and most of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">indoor a...The ways which are used today in order to light houses, offices, and most of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">indoor areas are inefficient as a lot of energy is consumed unnecessarily during the day time. Mainly this problem</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">because the interior lighting design consider the worst case when the light service is at night, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">which</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is not always valid. Also in most cases the lighting system design rel</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ies</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> on people to control the lights switching on and off. This problem is also one of the design concern</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> in Green Building. In this paper, a solution to this problem and a method for people’s comfort who use the indoor facilities in industrial building</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is presented. In the proposed smart lighting system, lights switch on automatically when there is somebody in the room or in the occupied space and switch off when there is no occupancy. In addition to this known technique, adjustment of the brightness level of the lights will be possible via the personal computer or any other smart device. In this method, for the illumination level in the area, where is needed to be controlled for better energy saving, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">light automatically is measured by </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">sensor and considering the amount of background lights coming from outside, automatically the brightness of lights is controlled to reach the preset level that determined for that room. By the means of this method, it is possible to provide better user comfort, avoid human forcedness to switch the light on and off, and hence effective energy sav</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. Arduino controller is used to build the controller and to demonstrate the results. Economic analysis was done to calculate the percentage of the energy saving that can be obtained by implementing the proposed smart lighting controller. As an outcome </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the economic analysis, energy saving norm for an office with </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">a </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">standard size was calculated.展开更多
针对目前智能楼宇监测中数据可靠性低、测量点位分散、数据传输实时性不高和误报频繁等问题,提出基于物联网(Internet of Things,IoT)技术的智能楼宇监测系统设计。首先,采用ZigBee技术组建无线传感器网络,实现分散点位传感器数据的收集...针对目前智能楼宇监测中数据可靠性低、测量点位分散、数据传输实时性不高和误报频繁等问题,提出基于物联网(Internet of Things,IoT)技术的智能楼宇监测系统设计。首先,采用ZigBee技术组建无线传感器网络,实现分散点位传感器数据的收集,并将数据通过网关传输到物联网云平台。其次,利用改进的自适应加权算法融合传感器数据,有效提升多传感器检测数据的准确性。系统云平台能够分析和展示传感器数据,而且能够实时查看待测区域的视频图像,预留数据分析接口。应用表明,系统数据测量准确、相对误差较低、稳定性较好。展开更多
文摘Privacy preservation is a crucial issue for smart buildings where all kinds of messages, e.g., power usage data, control commands, events, alarms, etc. are transmitted to accomplish the management of power. Without appropriate privacy protection schemes, electricity customers are faced with various privacy risks. Meanwhile, the natures of smart grids and smart buildings—such as having limited computation power of smart devices and constraints in communication network capabilities, while requiring being highly reliable—make privacy preservation a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a group key scheme to safeguard multicast privacy with the provisions of availability, fault-tolerance, and efficiency in the context of smart buildings as a part the smart grid. In particular, hybrid architecture accommodating both centralized and contributory modes is constructed in order to achieve both fault-tolerance and efficiency with only one set of group key installed. Key trees are sophisticatedly managed to reduce the number of exponentiation operations. In addition, an individual rekeying scheme is introduced for occasional joining and leaving of member smart meters. Experimental results, on a simulation platform, show that our scheme is able to provide significant performance gains over state-of-the-art methods while effectively preserving the participants’ privacy.
文摘Recent advances in information and communications technology(ICT) have initiated development of a smart electrical grid and smart buildings. Buildings consume a large portion of the total electricity production worldwide, and to fully develop a smart grid they must be integrated with that grid. Buildings can now be"prosumers"on the grid(both producers and consumers), and the continued growth of distributed renewable energy generation is raising new challenges in terms of grid stability over various time scales. Buildings can contribute to grid stability by managing their overall electrical demand in response to current conditions. Facility managers must balance demand response requests by grid operators with energy needed to maintain smooth building operations.For example, maintaining thermal comfort within an occupied building requires energy and, thus an optimized solution balancing energy use with indoor environmental quality(adequate thermal comfort, lighting, etc.) is needed. Successful integration of buildings and their systems with the grid also requires interoperable data exchange. However, the adoption and integration of newer control and communication technologies into buildings can be problematic with older legacy HVAC and building control systems.Public policy and economic structures have not kept up with the technical developments that have given rise to the budding smart grid, and further developments are needed in both technical and non-technical areas.
文摘Buildings are becoming smarter as a result of a variety of advanced technologies that enable energy management, optimal space utilization, and smart surveillance for safety, among other things. Energy-efficient smart building ideas and execution are of great interest and top priority due to the building’s occupants’ misused and high-power consumption. This paper addresses the design and execution of an energy management system that includes a solar power system for generating power for the building’s needs and a PIR-based automation system for efficient power use. This project was carried out at the Military Technological College (MTC) in Muscat, in the system engineering department’s offices. This project seeks to generate power for the building’s energy needs using solar photovoltaic panels and reduce energy consumption within the office using a PIR-based automation system. The results demonstrate that after the breakeven point (the time it takes to recoup the initial investment), it can provide power to the building for another 17 years. The calculations and practical results presented in this study approve that the system is extremely helpful.
基金supported by the University of Nottingham’s Architecture,Energy&Environment research groupthe Energy Research Accelerator(ERA)the Energy Technologies Institute(ETI)
文摘This paper presents the design of a wireless building monitoring network implemented at the University of Nottingham's Creative Energy Homes test site.The network is installed in seven smart buildings with the aim of holistically collecting energy data.Data will be used to inform a central control algorithm to optimise the energy flows between buildings,in turn promoting the smart cities concept.Sensors and meters measuring temperature,humidity,CO_2,heat energy,power,and stratified tank temperature are described.Furthermore,the communication protocols utilised are also discussed,which include wireless MBus and EnOcean.This paper also covers the methods used for ensuring the reliability of data signals and the system controls.
文摘This paper presents a study to optimize the heating energy costs in a residential building with varying electricity price signals based on an Economic Model Predictive Controller (EMPC). The investigated heating system consists of an air source heat pump (ASHP) incorporated with a hot water tank as active Thermal Energy Storage (TES), where two optimization problems are integrated together to optimize both the ASHP electricity consumption and the building heating consumption utilizing a heat dynamic model of the building. The results show that the proposed EMPC can save the energy cost by load shifting compared with some reference cases.
文摘In its broadest interpretation, the smart grid vision sees the future of power industry transformed by the introduction of intelligent two-way communications, ubiquitous metering and measurement. This enables much finer control of energy flows and the integration and efficient use of renewable forms of energy, energy efficiency methodologies and technologies, as well as many other advanced technologies, techniques and processes that wouldn’t have been practicable until present. The smart grid vision also enables the creation of more reliable, more robust and more secure power supply infrastructure, and helps optimize the enormous investments required to build and operate the physical infrastructure required. The smart grid promises to revolutionize the electric power business that has been in place for the past 75 years. This work discusses the efficiency, targeted at the consumer units of electricity, with a view to sustainability and potential for technological innovation. The issue is addressed from two perspectives: the systems for generation and power distribution, and the design of a building “smart energy”. Because of the novelty of the subject in our country, the concepts presented and treated throughout this work come from material obtained at events and specialized sites on electric power system in Brazil and worldwide, being accompanied by information and data from NIPE’s building at University of Campinas’s campus case study in which it exemplifies the applicability of the techniques and recommended technologies.
文摘This work investigates the economic, social, and environmental impact of adopting different smart lighting architectures for home automation in two geographical and regulatory regions: Algiers, Algeria, and Stuttgart, Germany. Lighting consumes a considerable amount of energy, and devices for smart lighting solutions are among the most purchased smart home devices. As commercialized solutions come with variant features, we empirically evaluate through this study the impact of each one of the energy-related features and provide insights on those that have higher energy saving contribution. The study started by investigating the state-of-the-art of commercialized ICT-based light control solutions, which allowed the extraction of the energy-related features. Based on the outcomes of this study, we generated simulation scenarios and selected evaluations metrics to evaluate the impact of dimming, daylight harvesting, scheduling, and motion detection. The simulation study has been conducted using EnergyPlussimulation tool, which?enables fine-grained realistic evaluation. The results show that adopting smart lighting technologies have a payback period of few years and that the use of these technologies has positive economic and societal impacts, as well as on the environment by considerably reducing gas emissions. However, this positive contribution is highly sensitive to the geographical location, energy prices, and the occupancy profile.
文摘The ways which are used today in order to light houses, offices, and most of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">indoor areas are inefficient as a lot of energy is consumed unnecessarily during the day time. Mainly this problem</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">because the interior lighting design consider the worst case when the light service is at night, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">which</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is not always valid. Also in most cases the lighting system design rel</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ies</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> on people to control the lights switching on and off. This problem is also one of the design concern</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> in Green Building. In this paper, a solution to this problem and a method for people’s comfort who use the indoor facilities in industrial building</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> is presented. In the proposed smart lighting system, lights switch on automatically when there is somebody in the room or in the occupied space and switch off when there is no occupancy. In addition to this known technique, adjustment of the brightness level of the lights will be possible via the personal computer or any other smart device. In this method, for the illumination level in the area, where is needed to be controlled for better energy saving, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">light automatically is measured by </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">sensor and considering the amount of background lights coming from outside, automatically the brightness of lights is controlled to reach the preset level that determined for that room. By the means of this method, it is possible to provide better user comfort, avoid human forcedness to switch the light on and off, and hence effective energy sav</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. Arduino controller is used to build the controller and to demonstrate the results. Economic analysis was done to calculate the percentage of the energy saving that can be obtained by implementing the proposed smart lighting controller. As an outcome </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">of </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the economic analysis, energy saving norm for an office with </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">a </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">standard size was calculated.
文摘针对目前智能楼宇监测中数据可靠性低、测量点位分散、数据传输实时性不高和误报频繁等问题,提出基于物联网(Internet of Things,IoT)技术的智能楼宇监测系统设计。首先,采用ZigBee技术组建无线传感器网络,实现分散点位传感器数据的收集,并将数据通过网关传输到物联网云平台。其次,利用改进的自适应加权算法融合传感器数据,有效提升多传感器检测数据的准确性。系统云平台能够分析和展示传感器数据,而且能够实时查看待测区域的视频图像,预留数据分析接口。应用表明,系统数据测量准确、相对误差较低、稳定性较好。