Title
Occupant engaged fast demand responses for commercial buildings: poster abstract
Abstract
Occupants are excluded from traditional commercial building Demand Responses (DR) control loop. During the DR events, utility companies send DR requests to commercial building facility managers (FMs), who often send emails to occupants with generic instructions. Unless the buildings are equipped with advanced hardware, office building FMs have limited means to reduce significant pick load in the DR periods. We present a software-based, occupant-engaged fast DR system for commercial office buildings. Our collaborative DR (cDR) module is built upon our collaborative energy management and control (CEMC) platform. Through the web portal, occupants can submit their temperature range and schedule. Then, utilizing our \"4 point arbitration\" system, we can shed significant peak load without scarificing occupants' comfort. During field experiments on a mid-size office building at Pittsburgh, we observed 1.6% load reduction for the traditional email-based DR method and 19% load reduction using our cDR system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/3674061.2675044
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
design,performance of systems,real-time and embedded systems,water treatment
Energy management,Arbitration,Engineering,Control system,Operating system,Embedded system,Peak load
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3144-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Song100.34
Xianjun Sam Zheng222220.59
Sanjeev Srivastava300.34