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检验以下假设：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（减少 20% 或更多），同时保持居住者的舒适度。通过模拟和实验，来自异构传感器系统（包括有线和无线传感器；移动和静态传感器；自动和人工输入的传感器）中各种模式和平台的输入将被集成和融合，以便测量和融合与同类系统相比，跟踪室内气候、能源使用情况以及居住者位置、活动和偏好，准确性更高，成本更低。该研究将包括基于多臂老虎机理论的高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结果作为输入，随着时间的推移学习如何自动操作建筑控制，从而在保持居住者安全的同时最大限度地减少能源消耗舒适度，并量化典型环境中获得的能源消耗收益。如果成功，该研究将建立一个框架，人类和建筑系统通过集成的移动传感器和控制系统进行无处不在的实时交互，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与环境工程、电气工程和计算机科学课程、多次会议演讲和出版物进行传播和贡献。计划开展公共宣传和能源教育计划，以提高公众对建筑物能源效率的认识。该计划针对 K-12 课堂，旨在吸引少数族裔学生进入大洛杉矶地区的工程专业。我们将制作一款互动游戏原型并进行测试，该游戏的重点是教导 K-12 学生如何通过改变行为和习惯来在日常生活中节省能量。