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What’s Really Happening?. Building Smart, Building Green…. Smart building technologies can improve buildings’ energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality. Definitions. Smart Building:
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Building Smart, Building Green… • Smart building technologies can improve buildings’ energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
Definitions Smart Building: A building that provides a productive and cost-effective environment through optimization of its four basic components - structure, systems, services and management - and the interrelationships between them." Source: Intelligent Buildings Institute (IBI)
Commonalities Green Building Smart Building Integrated design Individual comfort control Indoor environmental quality Productive workplace Flexibility Energy efficiency Automatic climate response Advanced controls Eco-friendly materials Ecological site planning Advanced security and communications systems Water efficiency Advanced structural system Transportation efficiency
Wireless Measurement & Control • Objective: • Study how small multi-modal sensing technology could affect the operation of buildings • Motivation • Wireless (50-90% of sensor cost due to wiring) • Small, could be embedded or attached to furniture, ceiling tiles, walls (“smart dust”) • Self locating, could also be used to keep track of furniture and equipment • Low cost (>$5 possible)
Wireless Measurement & Control • Issues • Power sources • What to do with additional data points? • Method • Collaboration with other UCB research groups • Sensor development • Computer simulations of sensor networks • Demonstration projects on UCB campus
Mixed-mode Buildings • Field Study Findings: • Buildings energy efficient • Occupants prefer ventilation and IAQ over conventional systems • Occupants preferred window control to HVAC control • Engineers very concerned about how to control the HVAC systems • Potential to control via wireless sensors in windows and space
Armstrong World Industries Arup* Calif. Dept. of General Services California Energy Commission HDR Architecture* Hellmuth, Obata, + Kassabaum IFMA* NBBJ Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Tate Access Floors* Trane United Technologies US Department of Energy* US General Services Agency* Webcor Team* — Webcor Builders, Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers, Critchfield Mechanical, Rosendin Electric York International Center for the Built EnvironmentIndustry Partners *Founding Partners