Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings
With the growing need to obtain information about power consumption in buildings, it is necessary to investigate how to collect, store, and visualize such information using low-cost solutions. Currently, the available building management solutions are expensive and challenging to support small and m...
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| author | Mohamed A. Ahmed Sebastian A. Chavez Ali M. Eltamaly Hugo O. Garces Alejandro J. Rojas Young-Chon Kim |
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| description | With the growing need to obtain information about power consumption in buildings, it is necessary to investigate how to collect, store, and visualize such information using low-cost solutions. Currently, the available building management solutions are expensive and challenging to support small and medium-sized buildings. Unfortunately, not all buildings are intelligent, making it difficult to obtain such data from energy measurement devices and appliances or access such information. The internet of things (IoT) opens new opportunities to support real-time monitoring and control to achieve future smart buildings. This work proposes an IoT platform for remote monitoring and control of smart buildings, which consists of four-layer architecture: power layer, data acquisition layer, communication network layer, and application layer. The proposed platform allows data collection for energy consumption, data storage, and visualization. Various sensor nodes and measurement devices are considered to collect information on energy use from different building spaces. The proposed solution has been designed, implemented, and tested on a university campus considering three scenarios: an office, a classroom, and a laboratory. This work provides a guideline for future implementation of intelligent buildings using low-cost open-source solutions to enable building automation, minimize power consumption costs, and guarantee end-user comfort. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df97825024804508bb3949d2eeb18abe2023-11-24T12:07:34ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-11-012223904510.3390/s22239045Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart BuildingsMohamed A. Ahmed0Sebastian A. Chavez1Ali M. Eltamaly2Hugo O. Garces3Alejandro J. Rojas4Young-Chon Kim5Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, ChileDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, ChileElectrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, EgyptDepartamento Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, ChileDepartamento Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción, Victor Lamas 1290, Concepción 4070386, ChileDepartment of Computer Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Republic of KoreaWith the growing need to obtain information about power consumption in buildings, it is necessary to investigate how to collect, store, and visualize such information using low-cost solutions. Currently, the available building management solutions are expensive and challenging to support small and medium-sized buildings. Unfortunately, not all buildings are intelligent, making it difficult to obtain such data from energy measurement devices and appliances or access such information. The internet of things (IoT) opens new opportunities to support real-time monitoring and control to achieve future smart buildings. This work proposes an IoT platform for remote monitoring and control of smart buildings, which consists of four-layer architecture: power layer, data acquisition layer, communication network layer, and application layer. The proposed platform allows data collection for energy consumption, data storage, and visualization. Various sensor nodes and measurement devices are considered to collect information on energy use from different building spaces. The proposed solution has been designed, implemented, and tested on a university campus considering three scenarios: an office, a classroom, and a laboratory. This work provides a guideline for future implementation of intelligent buildings using low-cost open-source solutions to enable building automation, minimize power consumption costs, and guarantee end-user comfort.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/23/9045intelligent campussmart buildinginternet of things platformremote monitoring and control |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed A. Ahmed Sebastian A. Chavez Ali M. Eltamaly Hugo O. Garces Alejandro J. Rojas Young-Chon Kim Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings Sensors intelligent campus smart building internet of things platform remote monitoring and control |
| title | Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings |
| title_full | Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings |
| title_fullStr | Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings |
| title_short | Toward an Intelligent Campus: IoT Platform for Remote Monitoring and Control of Smart Buildings |
| title_sort | toward an intelligent campus iot platform for remote monitoring and control of smart buildings |
| topic | intelligent campus smart building internet of things platform remote monitoring and control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/23/9045 |
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