PC3: Pervasive Sensing and Computing Technologies for Energy and Water Sustainability in Buildings

该奖项为加州大学洛杉矶分校和印度新德里信息技术学院之间的一个合作项目提供资金。建筑是最大的能源消耗者之一，既直接以电力、天然气等的形式存在，也间接地通过水的消耗来实现，这是人们必须考虑的真正可持续发展的关键能源-水关系的一部分。该项目的目标是发展低成本和易于部署的传感方法的基础，这些方法提供对建筑物中能源和水消耗模式和原因的可观察性，以及使用传感信息智能控制各种建筑系统的运行时方法，以最大限度地减少直接和间接的能源使用。项目团队正在与国际学术和工业合作伙伴合作，这些合作伙伴提供了互补的实验机会和独特的机会，以开发适用于不同气候和社会经济背景的低成本技术。研究的关键要素包括：(i)从边带信号间接推断能源和水的使用情况的低成本自校准传感器；（ii）通过更好地管理建筑子系统，及时识别和修复能源和水浪费的物理退化，以及通过提供信息反馈和激励措施来影响居住者的行为，从而减少总体能源和水足迹的方法；文化和社会因素对隐私、安全和用户交互机制的影响。该项目通过促进对保护措施效果的评估、激励措施的目标、对法规遵守情况的审计和设施维护，具有显著的社会经济效益潜力。该项目还有助于劳动力发展和培训学生应对全球社会经济背景下的能源挑战。该项目是普及通信和计算协作（PC3）计划的一部分。

This award provides funding for a collaborative project between University of California, Los Angeles and Indian Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India. Buildings are among the largest consumers of energy, both directly in the form of electricity, gas etc. as well as indirectly through consumption of water as part of the critical energy-water nexus that one must consider for true sustainability. The objective of this project is to develop the foundations of low-cost and easy-to-deploy sensing methods that provide observability into patterns and causes of energy and water consumption in a building, and run-time methods that use the sensory information for intelligent control of various buildings systems to minimize the direct and indirect energy use. The project team is collaborating with international academic and industrial collaborators who offer access to complementary experimental opportunities and unique opportunities to develop low-cost technologies that scale across different climatic and socioeconomic contexts. Key elements of the research include (i) Low-cost self-calibrating sensors that infer energy and water usage indirectly from side-band signals, (ii) Methods to reduce overall energy and water footprint by better management of building subsystems, by timely identification and repair of energy and water wasting physical degradations, and by providing information feedback and incentives to influence occupant behaviors, and (iii) Study of the impact of human, cultural and societal factors on privacy, safety, and user interaction mechanisms. The project has the potential of significant socioeconomic benefits by facilitating assessment of efficacy of conservation measures, targeting of incentives, auditing compliance with regulations, and facilities maintenance. The project also contributes to workforce development and training of students on energy challenges in a global socioeconomic context. This project is a part of pervasive communications and computing collaboration (PC3) initiative.