Cyber-physical Infrastructure for Smart Building Applications towards Human Comfort and Energy Savings

Abstract

Rapid development of information technologies facilitates modern buildings to be smarter. The smart buildings are expected to operate more efficiently to serve the occupants well. Cyber-physical systems are the key enablers for these objectives. They include various sensors and actuators, edge computing devices, human-machine interface, data analysis services to assist building operators in monitoring and decision-making. In this paper, we present such a cyber-physical system integration which has been developed and deployed in an office space. It is capable of acquiring environmental conditions of the occupants, their personal energy consumption, human interaction with the system, etc. Correlations of these information are analyzed before making any decision on adjusting the building operation. A few cases of data analyses are presented to provide the understanding of the system behaviour.