Integrated Smart Buildings Communication and Networks | Puvishanan S. Naguleswaran
| | Abstract | From the moment we wake up, we are surrounded by technology. Many organizations such as educational institutions, hospitals and airports work within strict budgets while also improving services. Schools too, have to provide the best learning environments for children and students while working within limited budgets. However, there is an answer in maintaining exceptional energy efficiency in schools while saving money on energy expenditure and this money can be used to improve schools in ways such as hiring teachers or providing more technology for students and so on. These are big challenges as there are lots of schools with different building types, these buildings, old and new, offer challenges in bringing in old facilities along with new facilities. For these challenges, there are Smartstuxure solutions, enabled by the StruxureWare building operation software. Implanting the Smartstruxure solution into the facilities gives the user handling of the entire buildings and energy. The product will help the user to migrate all the old legacy systems into new generations. Smartstruxure solutions allows the district to monitor and measure energy as a granular level which means it can make decisions on how to manage energy use in real time. As it will be able to see all the connected equipment, the district can implement proactive maintenance to decrease the equipment failure and respond to problems much more quickly. Their users are able to use mobile devices from any location to monitor the schools and make adjustments. Moreover, the user is able to pull in BACnet, LonTalk or Modbus network paths on several different protocols in the system to monitor and control third party systems. These network paths are also able to communicate with each other through a controller and can be accessed through an Internet of Things system. The main benefit through using Smartstruxure is to help provide greener features and save money for further benefits. The project is focused on to create smart algorithm, which will help the user to control and monitor the entire buildings and energy consumptions. Moreover focusing on to have Building automation and control managed network (BACnet), which is designed to have services and data communications protocols used for control and monitor the building systems. These provide BACnet/IP for interfacing it to Internet. To do the interfacing there are BBMD (BACnet Broadcasting Management Device) placed to maintain the communication link between devices inside and outside the buildings. This integration method shows how the BBMD devices can be used to have communication in the BACnet/IP network. | | Type | Master's thesis [Academic thesis] | | Year | 2016 | | Publisher | Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science | | Address | Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk | | Series | DTU Compute M.Sc.-2016 | | Note | DTU supervisor: Christian D. Jensen, cdje@dtu.dk, DTU Compute | | Electronic version(s) | [pdf] | | Publication link | http://www.compute.dtu.dk/english | | BibTeX data | [bibtex] | | IMM Group(s) | Computer Science & Engineering |
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