Development of a Smart Sensor Network with Application in Self-Adapting Energy Management Systems for Buildings

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first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessAbstract Development of a Smart Sensor Network with Application in Self-Adapting Energy Management Systems for Buildings † by Ciprian Lapusan *, Olimpiu Hancu and Ciprian Rad Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. † Presented at the 5th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2017), Barcelona, Spain, 27–29 September 2017. Proceedings 2017, 1(8), 730; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1080730 Published: 11 December 2017 (This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2017)) Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Versions Notes To satisfy ever-increasing needs for efficiency and environment protection, the energy management systems for buildings have become more and more complex products that integrate advanced sensor networks and control algorithms into their structure. The integration of these two modules allows the development of new context-aware responses for the control strategies that allows the system to adapt better to the building and environment dynamics. In this paper, the results of developing such a system are presented. The controlled environment was developed using Matlab simulation software. The smart sensor network was developed and optimized using this virtual environment. The data provided by the sensor network are used to better control the energy consumption in the building. For this, a model-based control algorithm was developed which takes advantage of the extra information provided by the network. The obtained system is tested using hardware in the loop approach on the dSpace and Discovery STM32F4 real-time simulation platforms. The obtained results show that the proposed approach offers good results and increases the efficiency of the building. Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare no conflict of interest.Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Lapusan, C.; Hancu, O.; Rad, C. Development of a Smart Sensor Network with Application in Self-Adapting Energy Management Systems for Buildings. Proceedings 2017, 1, 730. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1080730 AMA Style Lapusan C, Hancu O, Rad C. Development of a Smart Sensor Network with Application in Self-Adapting Energy Management Systems for Buildings. Proceedings. 2017; 1(8):730. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1080730 Chicago/Turabian Style Lapusan, Ciprian, Olimpiu Hancu, and Ciprian Rad. 2017. "Development of a Smart Sensor Network with Application in Self-Adapting Energy Management Systems for Buildings" Proceedings 1, no. 8: 730. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1080730 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.