Advanced Modular and Reconfigurable Testbed for Development of Intelligent Building Automation Technologies in a Converged Network

乔治布朗学院（GBC）的智能楼宇自动化系统（IBAS）研究小组与行业领导者密切合作，部署，评估和开发新的智能楼宇和智能家居技术。正在进行的研究活动旨在开发系统集成解决方案，不仅减少能源消耗和二氧化碳排放，而且提高居住者的舒适度和生产力。沿着技术娴熟、知识渊博的研究人员，配备最新系统和设备的先进实验室设施是每个研究项目成功的关键因素。GBC正在请求NSERC阿尔蒂提供资金，以采购能够集成不同的楼宇自动化技术的设备，从而实现更好的节能和系统改进。该设备将支持与行业合作伙伴正在进行和计划进行的合作研究项目，这些项目与Amir Shabani博士领导的智能互联建筑研究计划（2015-2020）中的NSERC学院工业研究主席（IRCC）保持一致。* 阿尔蒂设备将提高GBC在智能家居/楼宇自动化方面的研发能力，并将使几个大学行业应用研究项目成为可能。拟议的设备将支持自动化和能源管理技术公司的开发工作，这些公司积极参与设计、制造和商业化创新的IBAS产品和服务。拟议的设备将增强现有的基础设施，并允许GBC研究团队创建一个品牌无关的平台独立测试平台，用于集成不同的楼宇自动化技术，收集和分析来自现场测试站点的占用率，住宅首选设置，能耗，服务质量（例如空气）等数据。控制器将从传感器网络中提取数据，并将其传输到现有的云服务器进行存储和分析。GBC的学生、技术专家和研究人员也将能够与他们的行业合作伙伴合作，研究最佳的自动化集成实践。通过参与这些行业项目，学生将学习必要的工具，并获得不断发展的楼宇自动化行业所需的实际专业知识。同时，合作伙伴公司将受益于GBC在产品开发方面的专业知识，这反过来又将有利于区域和国家的经济。

The Intelligent Building Automation Systems (IBAS) research group at George Brown College (GBC) closely collaborates with industry leaders on deployment, assessment, and development of new smart building and smart home technologies. Ongoing research activities aim to develop system integration solutions that not only reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, but also improve the occupants' comfort and productivity. Along with skillful and knowledgeable researchers, leading-edge lab facilities with up-to-date systems and equipment are key success factors in every research project. GBC is requesting NSERC ARTI funding to procure equipment that enables integration of different disparate building automation technologies for better energy conservation and system improvement. This equipment will support ongoing and planned collaborative research projects with industry partners that are aligned with its NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings research program (2015-2020) led by Dr. Amir Shabani. ****The ARTI equipment will enhance GBC's research and development capacity in smart home/building automation and will enable several college-industry applied research projects. The proposed equipment will support development efforts by automation and energy management technology companies active in designing, manufacturing and commercializing innovative IBAS products and services. The proposed equipment will augment existing infrastructure and allow GBC research teams to create a brand-agnostic platform-independent testbed for integration of different building automation technologies, collect and analyze data on occupancy, residence preferred settings, energy consumption, quality of service (e.g. air) and more, from live test sites. The controllers will pull the data from the sensor networks and transfer it to an existing cloud server for storage and analysis. GBC students, technologists and faculty researchers will also be able to collaborate with their industry partners on investigating the best automation integration practices. Through participation in these industry projects, students will learn the necessary tools and gain real-world expertise that the evolving industry of building automation will require. Simultaneously, partner companies will benefit from GBC's expertise in development of their products, which will in turn benefit the economy, regionally and nationally.**