Title
Context-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks For Smart Building Energy Management System
Abstract
Energy Management Systems (EMS) are indispensable for Smart Energy-Efficient Buildings (SEEB). This paper proposes a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based EMS deployed and tested in a real-world smart building on a university campus. The at-scale implementation enabled the deployment of a WSN mesh topology to evaluate performance in terms of routing capabilities, data collection, and throughput. The proposed EMS uses the Context-Based Reasoning (CBR) Model to represent different types of buildings and offices. We implemented a new energy-efficient policy for electrical heaters control based on a Finite State Machine (FSM) leveraging on context-related events. This demonstrated significant effectiveness in minimizing the processing load, especially when adopting multithreading in data acquisition and control. To optimize sensors' battery lifetime, we deployed a new Energy Aware Context Recognition Algorithm (EACRA) that dynamically configures sensors to send data under specific conditions and at particular times to avoid redundant data transmissions. EACRA increases the sensors' battery lifetime by optimizing the number of samples, used modules, and transmissions. Our proposed EMS design can be used as a model to retrofit other kinds of buildings, such as residential and industrial, and thus converting them to SEEBs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/info11110530
INFORMATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Smart Grid (SG), Microgrid (MG), Smart Energy-Efficient Buildings (SEEB), Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Wireless Mesh Network (WMN), Finite State Machine (FSM), XBee
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
11
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naji Najem100.34
Mohamed Riduan Abid2144.39
Driss Benhaddou35513.00
Nissrine Krami400.34