Paper Info
Title
BuildingDepot: an extensible and distributed architecture for building data storage, access and sharing.
Abstract
Enabled by various sensing and data networking devices, modern buildings are beginning to generate extraordinary amounts of sensory data. The organization and availability of this data is currently a challenge, especially for researchers who seek to devise intelligent data-driven methods for energy efficient use of building systems. Most current solutions tend to be ad-hoc and proprietary, and thus do not support mechanisms for easy data acess and sharing. In this paper we present BuildingDepot, an extensible and distributed system for building-related data with scalable data storage, ease of data access, fine-grained data sharing and access control as first class design principles. We focus on the overall architecture and highlight how our own experiences running multiple building deployments have shaped our design decisions. We have implemented a prototype of BuildingDepot, along with connectors to several standard energy management systems, showing how it enables enterprises to incrementally deploy the system as well as Get and Put data into BuildingDepot using a REST-style API. We have released it as open source software to the building research community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2422531.2422545
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
data access,easy data acess,fine-grained data,building-related data,sensory data,multiple building deployment,scalable data storage,modern building,building research community,access control,data storage,sensors,web service,wireless sensor networks,applications,api
Data architecture,Energy management,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Data sharing,Access control,Web service,Data access,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
1.58
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuvraj Agarwal11327102.62
Rajesh Gupta217712.34
Daisuke Komaki3231.58
Thomas Weng421016.64