An Energy Management Platform for Public Buildings

This paper describes the development and implementation of an electronic platform for energy management in public buildings. The developed platform prototype is based on the installation of a network of wireless sensors using the emerging Long Range (LoRa) low power long-range wireless network techn...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) 2018-11, Vol.7 (11), p.294
Main Authors: Ferreira, Joao, Afonso, Jose, Monteiro, Vitor, Afonso, Joao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Buildings
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Communication
Cost control
Decision making
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy management
Internet of Things
Power consumption
Public buildings
Renewable resources
Sensors
Sustainability
Wide area networks
Wireless networks
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Summary:This paper describes the development and implementation of an electronic platform for energy management in public buildings. The developed platform prototype is based on the installation of a network of wireless sensors using the emerging Long Range (LoRa) low power long-range wireless network technology. This network is used to collect sensor data, which is stored online and manipulated to extract knowledge and generate actions toward energy saving solutions. In this process, gamification approaches were used to motivate changes in the users’ behavior towards more sustainable actions in public buildings. These actions and the associated processes can be implemented as public services, and they can be replicated to different public buildings, contributing to a more energy-sustainable world. The developed platform allows the monitoring and management of the heating/cooling, electric power consumption, and lighting levels. In order to validate the proposed electronic platform, sensor information was collected in the context of a university campus, which was used as an application scenario in public buildings.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics7110294