Cloud computing platform for sustainability management

今天，全球75%的总能源消耗是在建筑物的运行时间内用于供暖、制冷和照明。用于这些目的的设备和系统的类型排放温室气体(温室气体)，占全球温室气体排放总量的80%。建筑物是由电、水、供暖、安全、通信和人员等其他系统组成的复杂系统。为了全面了解建筑物并更好地计划可持续行动，可以收集和分析这些系统生成的数据，以便创建新的方法来优化建筑物的资源消耗。 该项目的主要目标是创建一个软件平台，在探索和推进云计算技术的同时，管理和改善建筑物的资源消耗。上述建筑系统的高性能和可用性要求与云计算功能之间存在很大的协同效应。该项目将通过创建可扩展的基于云的可持续性管理平台来探索这种协同效应。 这个项目的结果将直接使Powersmith受益。这项建议对于以灵活和可扩展的软件工程方法解决可持续发展管理问题具有价值，该方法可用于智能建筑和智能社区。这将使资源得到更合理的利用，对有意义的情况做出更快的反应，最终创造一个更可持续的世界。预计该项目有助于更好地了解所涉及的研究领域，从而间接受益于基于云的应用的其他领域。政府机构被要求将能耗降低高达50%，从而率先实现建筑净零，这也增加了对类似平台的需求，以支持这些努力。此外，参与该项目的HQP将在基于云的技术以及智能环境中的现实世界知识和经验方面获得宝贵的经验。

Today, 75% of the total energy consumption worldwide is in buildings during the operational hours for heating, cooling and lighting purposes. The types of equipment and systems used for these purposes emit GHG (Green House Gases) which contributes to 80% of the total GHG emission globally. A building is an intricate system of other systems, such as electricity, water, heating, security, communications, and people. In order to have a holistic view of a building and better plan for sustainable actions, these systems' generated data can be collected and analysed so that new approaches to optimize a building's resources consumption can be created. The main objective of this project is to create a software platform to manage and improve buildings' resources consumption while exploring and advancing cloud computing technologies. There is a great synergy between the high-performance and availability requirements of the above mentioned building's systems and cloud computing features. This project will explore this synergy through the creation of an extensible cloud-based platform for sustainability management. Results from this project will directly benefit Powersmiths. This proposal is of value in addressing sustainability management with a flexible and scalable software engineering approach that can be used in the context of smart buildings and smart communities. This would enable a more rational use of resources, faster response to meaningful situations, and, ultimately, creating a more sustainable world. It is also expected that this project contributes to a better understanding of the involved research areas which can indirectly benefit other domains of cloud based applications. The drive to deep building retrofit where government agencies are directed to reduce energy consumption by as much as 50% as a lead in to net zero buildings also increases demand for similar platforms to support these endeavors. Additionally, the HQP involved in this project will gain valuable experience in the cloud based technologies and real world knowledge and experience in smart environments.