Energy Efficiency in Smart Buildings through IoT Sensor Integration
基于物联网传感器集成提高智能楼宇的能效
Saifur Rahman
ABSRACT
Internet of Things (IoT) deployments offer a much higher value proposition if these can function in the context of smart buildings. Such advanced information and communication technology (ICT) applications in commercial buildings, schools, libraries, shopping centers, etc. offer low cost but highly effective monitoring and control opportunities. Sensors deployed in key locations can monitor the building environment in real-time, collect information for intelligent decision making, and facilitate various services. An IoT sensor platform has been developed that provides a unified communication platform which can integrate information from disparate sources and provide one control hierarchy. It is a powerful, low-cost, open-architecture software platform that can monitor and control major electrical loads (e.g., HVAC, lighting and plug loads), as well as solar PV systems, energy storage units and other IoT sensors in commercial buildings. The platform can provide new or legacy buildings with a building automation system (BAS) or connect with existing BAS systems in large and small commercial buildings. This platform leverages machine learning algorithms to draw insights from a deployed building’s historical operating data and occupant preferences to save energy (kWh) while increasing occupant comfort. This also allows buildings to reduce peak demand (kW) through direct communication with utilities using demand response protocols such as openADR.
如果物联网(IoT)能够在智能建筑的背景下发挥作用，那么物联网的部署将带来更高的价值和意义。在商业建筑、学校、图书馆、购物中心等场景中应用这种先进的信息和通信技术(ICT)，可以提供低成本但高效的能源监测和控制机会。部署在关键位置的传感器可以实时监测建筑环境，收集信息并智能决策，同时可以帮助和促进多种相关服务。基于这种设想，一个物联网传感器平台已经被开发出来。它提供了一个统一的通信平台，可以集成来自不同来源的信息，并提供一个统一的控制层级。它是一个强大、低成本、开放式架构的软件平台，可以监测和控制主要的电力负荷(如空调、照明和插电负荷)，以及太阳能光伏系统、储能单元和商业建筑中的其他物联网传感器。该平台可以为新建或旧建筑提供楼宇自动化系统(BAS)，或与大型或小型商业建筑的现有楼宇自动化系统连接。该平台利用机器学习算法，从已部署建筑的历史运行数据和居住者偏好中学习，从而在提高居住者舒适度的同时节约能源(kWh)。同时，该平台允许楼宇与电力公司通过需求响应协议 （如openADR）来进行直接通讯，从而适时地削减峰荷。
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He was the president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2018 and 2019. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He has published over 150 journal papers and has made over five hundred conference and invited presentations. In 2006 he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, energy internet, blockchain, IoT sensor integration, etc. in over 30 countries. He is the founder of BEM Controls, LLC, a Virginia (USA)-based software company providing building energy management solutions. He served as the chair of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He has conducted several energy efficiency, blockchain and sensor integration projects for Duke Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy and the State of Virginia. He has a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.
赛义夫·拉曼 (Saifur Rahman) 教授是弗吉尼亚理工大学高级研究所创始领导人，同时也是美国弗吉尼亚理工大学电气与计算机工程系Joseph R. Loring终身教授，领导着弗吉尼亚理工大学的能源与全球环境中心。他是IEEE的终身会士和IEEE千禧奖章获得者，也是IEEE PES （电力与能源学会) 2018和2019年度的主席。他曾担任《IEEE可持续能源学报》（IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy）和《IEEE电气化杂志》（IEEE Electrifications Magazine）这两本期刊的创刊主编。在学术生涯中，他发表过超过150篇期刊论文，并参加过500多次学术会议和受邀演讲。在担任IEEE PES 主席前，赛义夫·拉曼 (Saifur Rahman) 教授曾在2006年担任IEEE董事会成员和IEEE主管出版的副主席。他是IEEE PES的杰出演讲人，并且在超过30多个国家和地区进行过有关新能源、能源效率、智能电网、能源互联网、区块链、物联网传感器集成等相关的主题演讲。此外，赛义夫·拉曼 (Saifur Rahman) 教授还在美国弗吉尼亚创办了公司BEM Controls，一个致力于提供楼宇能源管理服务解决方案的软件公司。他也曾在2010年至2013年曾担任美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程咨询委员会主席。在杜克能源、东京电力公司、美国国家科学基金会、美国国防部、美国能源部和弗吉尼亚州的经费支持下，他展开了多个有关能源效率、区块链和传感器集成等方面的研究项目。赛义夫·拉曼 (Saifur Rahman) 教授在弗吉尼亚理工大学获得的电气与电子工程博士学位。