An Integrated Mobile Sensor System for Occupancy and Behavior Driven Building Energy Management

用于占用和行为驱动的建筑能源管理的集成移动传感器系统

• 批准号: 1201198
• 负责人: Burcin Becerik-Gerber
• 金额: $ 37.63万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1201198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Mobile; Sensor; System; Occupancy

The research objective of this award is to test the hypothesis that interactive, sensor monitoring and online control can significantly reduce the energy consumption of buildings (by 20 percent or more) while maintaining occupant comfort. Through simulations and experimentation, inputs from a wide range of modalities and platforms in a heterogeneous sensor system (including wired and wireless sensors; mobile and static sensors; automatic and human-input-based sensors) will be integrated and fused in order to measure and track indoor climate, energy usage, as well as occupant location, activities, and preferences with much higher accuracy and lower cost compared to homogeneous systems. The research will encompass mathematical and empirical analysis and evaluation of efficient online stochastic algorithms based on multi-armed bandit theory that take the integrated sensor measurements as input to learn over time how to automatically operate building controls, so as to minimize energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort, and quantify the gains in energy consumption obtained in typical environments. If successful, the research will establish a framework, where humans and building systems interact ubiquitously in real time through an integrated mobile sensor and control system for energy awareness and learning and energy efficiency in buildings. The results will be disseminated through and contribute to the civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering and computer science curricula, multiple conference talks, and publications. A public outreach and energy education program is planned to raise public awareness on energy efficiency in buildings. Targeting K-12 classrooms, this program aims to attract minority students to the engineering profession in the greater Los Angeles area. An interactive game, focusing on teaching K-12 students how they can conserve energy in their daily life by modifying their behavior and habits will be prototyped and tested.

该奖项的研究目标是测试一个假设，即交互式传感器监测和在线控制可以显着降低建筑物的能耗（20%或更多），同时保持居住者的舒适度。通过仿真和实验，在异构传感器系统中，（包括有线和无线传感器;移动的和静态传感器;自动和基于人工输入的传感器）将被集成和融合，以便测量和跟踪室内气候、能源使用以及居住者的位置、活动，以及与同类系统相比具有高得多的精度和低得多的成本的偏好。该研究将包括基于多臂强盗理论的有效在线随机算法的数学和实证分析和评估，该算法将集成传感器测量作为输入，以随着时间的推移学习如何自动操作建筑控制，从而在保持居住者舒适度的同时最大限度地减少能耗，并量化在典型环境中获得的能耗收益。如果成功，该研究将建立一个框架，在该框架中，人类和建筑系统通过集成的移动的传感器和控制系统在真实的时间内无处不在地进行交互，以实现建筑物的能源意识和学习以及能源效率。研究结果将通过土木和环境工程、电气工程和计算机科学课程、多个会议讲座和出版物进行传播，并为这些课程做出贡献。计划开展一项公共宣传和能源教育方案，以提高公众对建筑物能源效率的认识。针对K-12教室，该计划旨在吸引少数民族学生在大洛杉矶地区的工程专业。一个互动游戏，重点是教K-12学生如何通过改变他们的行为和习惯来节省能源在日常生活中将原型和测试。