SmartBuildings: an AmI system for energy efficiency

De Paola, Alessandra; Re, Giuseppe Lo; Morana, Marco; Ortolani, Marco

Abstract

Nowadays, the increasing global awareness of the importance of energy saving in everyday life acts as a stimulus to provide innovative ICT solutions for sustainability. In this scenario, the growing interest in smart homes has been driven both by socioeconomic and technological expectations. One of the key aspects of being smart is the efficiency of the urban apparatus, which includes, among others, energy, transportation and buildings. The present work describes SmartBuildings, a novel Ambient Intelligence system, which aims at reducing the energy consumption of "legacy" buildings by means of artificial intelligence techniques applied on heterogeneous sensor networks. A prototype has been realized addressing two different scenarios, i.e. the management of a campus and of a manufacturing facility. A complete description of the elements included in the case study is presented.

Citation

De Paola, A., Re, G. L., Morana, M., & Ortolani, M. (2015). SmartBuildings: an AmI system for energy efficiency. In 2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT). https://doi.org/10.1109/sustainit.2015.7101372

• Conference Name: 2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT)
• Conference Location: Madrid, Spain
• Start Date: Apr 14, 2015
• End Date: Apr 15, 2015
• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Book Title: 2015 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/sustainit.2015.7101372
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7101372