LOCAL OPERATING NETWORKS TECHNOLOGY AIMING TO IMPROVE BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PERFORMANCE SATISFYING THE USERS PREFERENCES

The common approach to model occupants behaviors in buildings is deterministic and consists of assumptions based on predefined fixed schedules or rules. In contrast with the deterministic models, stochastic and agent based (AB) models are the most powerful and suitable methods for modeling complex systems as the human behavior. In this paper, a co-simulation architecture is proposed with the aim of modeling the occupant behavior in buildings by a stochastic-AB approach and implementing an intelligent Building Energy Management System (BEMS). In particular, optimized control logics are designed for smart passive cooling by controlling natural ventilation and solar shading systems to guarantee the thermal comfort conditions and maintain energy performance. Moreover, the effects of occupant actions on indoor thermal comfort are also taken into account. This study shows how the integration of automation systems and passive techniques increases the potentialities of passive cooling in buildings, integrating or replacing the conventional efficiency strategies.

Internet of Things (IoT) environments are widely employed in industrial applications including intelligent transportation systems, healthcare systems, and building energy management systems. For such environments of highly sensitive data, adapting scalable and flexible communication with efficient security is vital. Research investigated wireless Ad-hoc/mesh networking, while Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) schemes have been highly recommended for IoT. However, a combined implementation of both mesh networking and Key-Policy Attribute Based Encryption (KPABE) on resource-constrained devices has been rarely addressed. Hence, in this work, an integrated system that deploys a lightweight KPABE security built on wireless mesh networking is proposed. Implementation results show that the proposed system ensures flexibility and scalability of self-forming and cooperative mesh networking in addition to a fine-grained security access structure for IoT nodes. Moreover, the work introduces a case study of an enabled scenario at a school building for optimizing energy efficiency, in which the proposed integrated system architecture is deployed on IoT sensing and actuating devices. Therefore, the encryption attributes and access policy are well-defined, and can be adopted in relevant IoT applications.

Smart building retrofitting complemented by solar assisted heat pumps integrated within a self-correcting intelligent building energy management system.

Combining the background of digital economy and digital China, based on the idea of basic method of BIM and information physics system CPS, a reference frame model of intelligent architecture based on BIM is put forward, from which the modern economic system of smart city is further constructed. 75% of the cost of the building life cycle occurs during the operation phase, while the cost of the construction phase accounts for only 25% of the project life cycle cost. Based on the importance of the operational stage and the inadequacy of the current industrial development, a software framework for intelligent architecture and intelligent city operation based on BIM + Multi-Agent Enhancing Learningis proposed, and the software development and implementation method of using the industrial general OPC standard as the integrated interface for MAS system modules is discussed. The realization of intelligent building energy management system is presented. This article can provide the method and idea for the enterprise to develop intelligent building software, and also can provide reference for the government to formulate intelligent construction and smart city strategy.

A building energy management system (BEMS) is a computer-based system designed to monitor and control a building's energy needs. Modern BEMS rely on the sensing and connectivity capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to intelligently adjust the energy consumption to reduce cost while respecting the consumers' preferences. Increasingly, control decisions are made based on predictions by models trained using supervised machine learning methods, which still requires control policies to be formulated in a rule-based fashion. When using reinforcement learning (RL) instead, control policies are learned by observing the utility in terms of cost and comfort associated with actions such as a change in the heating system's setpoint. The resulting RL-based controllers can capture not only the dynamics of the building and the associated electrical devices, but also fluctuations in electricity prices and user demand, avoiding the need to combine multiple predictive models with tailored control policies. This chapter will provide an overview of RL-based approaches for BEMS. After sketching the taxonomy of general RL methods, we discuss the implications of relying on the individual methods in a BEMS context. Existing work applying RL is presented along the key devices controlled by BEMS systems. Finally, we summarize the state-of-the-art and sketch limitations and open research directions.

Given its adaptable and efficient energy consuming devices during peak hours, the residential building sector is urged to take part in demand response (DR) initiatives with the use of a building energy management system (BMS). The residents of buildings with BMS enjoy secure, pleasant, and fully managed lifestyles. Although the BMS helps the building consume less energy and encourages occupant engagement in energy-saving initiatives, unwelcome interruptions and harsh instructions from the system are inconvenient for the inhabitants, which further discourages their participation in DR initiatives. Building automation control is a crucial factor for improving buildings’ energy efficiency and management, as well as improving the electricity grid’s reliability indices. Smart houses that use the right sizing procedure and energy-management techniques can help lower the demand on the entire grid and potentially sell clean energy to the utility. Recently, smart houses have been presented as an alternative to traditional power-system issues including thermal plant emissions and the risk of blackouts brought on by malfunctioning bulk plants or transmission lines. This paper describes the necessary technology requirements and presents the methodology and the decentralized building automation novel algorithm for efficient demand side management in a building management system. Human comfort aspects including thermal comfort and visual comfort were taken into consideration when selecting heating and lighting controls. The suggested BMS relies primarily on a load-shifting technique, which moves controllable loads to low-cost periods to avoid high loading during peak hours. The model aims to minimize the individual household electricity consumption cost while considering customers’ comfort and lifestyle. All these are applied in an experimental university microgrid, and the results are presented in terms of energy saving in kWh, money in €, and working hours. The results demonstrated that the proposed approach might successfully lower energy use during the DR period and enhance occupant comfort.

Fuzzy PID control is a process control technique combining the advantages of fuzzy logic and PID control. It maintains precise control over processes by combining fuzzy logic and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers. With this method, it is possible to achieve higher levels of accuracy and stability in controlling process variables such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, and position. This makes Fuzzy PID control an ideal cordial application requiring precise process control. Fuzzy PID control uses the PID parameter tuning experience to make the fuzzy controller automatically tune its parameters, giving PID control a better control effect. In this paper, a fuzzy PID controller is designed to control the temperature of an electric boiler. The control effects of PID control, fuzzy control, and fuzzy PID control are compared by simulation analysis. The simulation results show that the unclear PID control effect is ideal and has a good application prospect.

SUMMARYImproving energy efficiency in a manufacturing company through an energy management system requires active participation of different stakeholders and involvement of different organizational entities and technical processes. Interoperability of stakeholders and entities is the key factor to achieve a successful implementation of an energy management system. Researchers have been developing approaches in applying ontologies to address interoperability issues among humans as well as machines. Ontologies have also been used for knowledge representation in different domains, such as energy management and manufacturing. In recent years, researchers have developed knowledge‐based intelligent energy management systems in buildings, especially households, which use ontologies for knowledge representation. In the manufacturing domain, ontologies have been used for knowledge management in order to provide a common formal understanding between the stakeholders, who have different background knowledge. This paper proposes an approach to apply ontology to allow knowledge‐based energy efficiency evaluation in manufacturing companies. The ontology provides a formal knowledge representation that addresses the interoperability issues due to different human stakeholders as well as machines involved in the energy management system of the company. This paper also describes the methods used to construct and to process the ontology. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Intelligent context-awareness system for energy efficiency in smart building based on ontology

The paper is concerned with two types of fuzzy PID controllers, the rule-based fuzzy PID controller and the learning fuzzy PID controller. Initially, the development of the rule-based fuzzy PID controller is studied, and subsequently, the development of the learning fuzzy PID controller is outlined. For the rule-based fuzzy PID controller, the PID gains are firstly tuned using a conventional tuning method. The rule buffer of the rule-based fuzzy then readjusts the PID gains during the system operation. The learning fuzzy PID controller not only readjusts the PID gains, it also creates and updates the rules in the rule-buffer automatically during the application of the learning fuzzy PID controller to the process. The rule-based fuzzy PID controller and the learning fuzzy PID controller are both applied to a non-linear revolute-joint robot-arm for path tracking experiments. The results of the experiments for the rule-based fuzzy PID controller and the learning fuzzy controller are compared with a conventional PID controller in order to evaluate the results.

Effect of electrochromic windows on energy consumption of high-rise office buildings in different climate regions of Iran

In CNC lathe servo feed system, many parameters are uncertain, so it is difficult to establish accurate mathematical model of the feed system, and parameters of conventional PID controller can not change the parameters to adjust with the controlled object. Fuzzy PID controller, which has the advantages of conventional PID control and fuzzy control, can solve these problems very well. So we can make it applied in CNC lathe servo feed system. This paper has made a simulation of fuzzy self-turning PID controller in the MATLAB environment. The simulation shows that the fuzzy self-turning PID controller has a better control capability and a higher stability, and it improved the servo feed system dynamic performance.

Fuzzy logic control based on the Takagi–Sugeno inference method has been applied for the yeast alcoholic fermentation running in a continuous-time biochemical reactor in this paper. A type-1 fuzzy PID controller was designed to temperature control in a biochemical reactor. The fuzzy PID controller was also designed using type-2 fuzzy sets. The advantage of the fuzzy control is that it can be used very successfully for control of strongly non-linear processes and processes that are difficult to model because of complicated reaction kinetics. Obtained simulation results confirm this fact. The disadvantage of the fuzzy control design lies in the time-consuming tuning of controllers. The subtractive clustering method was used to identify the rule base. This approach was chosen to minimize the number of rules of the designed fuzzy logic controllers and to simplify the fuzzy controller design. Simulation results confirm that fuzzy PID controllers can assure better performance than conventional PID controllers. Yeast alcoholic fermentation is an exothermic process and the cooling is necessary to maintain the optimal temperature in the reactor. Fuzzy PID control reduces coolant consumption in comparison with conventional PID control and so it assures energy-efficient control of continuous-time alcoholic fermentation. Using type-2 fuzzy sets in the fuzzy PID controller design is very promising as the type-2 fuzzy controller offers even better results than the type-1 fuzzy controller.

Aiming at the limitation of traditional PID algorithm in the field of control, the fuzzy control theory and traditional PID control algorithm are combined to realize parameter self-tuning function, a fuzzy self-tuning PID controller, and this algorithm is analyzed in-depth study. It provides a new solution of modern industrial control problem that combining with fuzzy control technology and PID control technology. The FPGA has high integration, short development cycle, the characteristics of strong reusability; fuzzy PID controller has a good practical value and optimistic application prospect based on FPGA.

To improve tracking precision and increase the utilization of solar energy, the solar automatic tracking fuzzy PID control system based on ARM is designed. Embedded microcontroller 32-bit ARM processor is the core. A kind of mixed tracking mode is adopted, and it combines photoelectric tracking mode and solar trajectory tracking mode. In the solar trajectory tracking mode, the fuzzy PID segmented tracking control method is put forward. The fuzzy control and PID control are combined to control the system. If the system's angle deviation is large, PID control is adopted, else fuzzy control is adopted. And the controller can be automatically switched control mode according to the size of angle deviation. Matlab simulation results indicate that the solar automatic tracking system with fuzzy PID control has a good dynamic characteristics and high tracking accuracy, effectively improves the photoelectric conversion efficiency.