TY - GEN
T1 - Co-design of Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for building controls
AU - Mady, Alie El Din
AU - Provan, Gregory
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A Building Automation System (BAS) aims to provide good user comfort within occupied zones in a building. One can enhance the functionality of a BAS through embedding advanced control strategies within a Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network (WSAN), and also make retrofit applications possible. However, control systems that are embedded in a WSAN can perform sub-optimally if the control system and WSAN are designed independently. In this context, we develop a co-design approach for embedding BAS code within a Network Control System. We compare our developed system for building lighting control with (a) a standard PI control method to empirically demonstrate a 19% reduction in energy use and 65% improvement in user comfort, and (b) an MPC strategy that uses only presence-based control, to show 25% reduction in energy use. Our approach also improves network delay and sensor battery usage by 68% over the PI baseline.
AB - A Building Automation System (BAS) aims to provide good user comfort within occupied zones in a building. One can enhance the functionality of a BAS through embedding advanced control strategies within a Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network (WSAN), and also make retrofit applications possible. However, control systems that are embedded in a WSAN can perform sub-optimally if the control system and WSAN are designed independently. In this context, we develop a co-design approach for embedding BAS code within a Network Control System. We compare our developed system for building lighting control with (a) a standard PI control method to empirically demonstrate a 19% reduction in energy use and 65% improvement in user comfort, and (b) an MPC strategy that uses only presence-based control, to show 25% reduction in energy use. Our approach also improves network delay and sensor battery usage by 68% over the PI baseline.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84860684972
U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160951
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160951
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84860684972
SN - 9781612848006
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 5266
EP - 5273
BT - 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011
Y2 - 12 December 2011 through 15 December 2011
ER -