Event-driven user-centric middleware for energy-efficient buildings and public spaces

Edoardo Patti (1) , Andrea Acquaviva (1) , Marco Jahn (2) , Ferry Pramudianto (2) , Riccardo Tomasi (3) , Damien Rabourdin (4) , Joseph Virgone (4) , Enrico Macii (1)

1 DAUIN - Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica [Torino]
2 Fraunhofer FIT - Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
3 ISMB - Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
4 CETHIL - Centre de Thermique de Lyon

In this work, the design of an event-driven user-centric middleware for monitoring and managing energy consumption in public buildings and spaces is presented. The main purpose is to increase the energy efficiency, reducing consumption, in buildings and public spaces. To reach it, the proposed service-oriented middleware has been designed to be event based exploiting also the user behaviours patterns of the people, which lives and works into the building. Furthermore, it allows an easy integration of heterogeneous technologies in order to enable a hardware independent interoperability between them. Moreover, a Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control strategy has been developed and the whole infrastructure has been deployed in a real-world case study consisting of a historical building. Finally the results will be presented and discussed.

Mots clés: Internet of things; Ubiquitous Computing; Ambient Intelligent; Pervasive Computing; event-driven middleware; web services; smart buildings; user-centred development; energy efficiency

Domaines: Thermique [physics.class-ph]; Thermique [physics.class-ph]

Edoardo Patti, Andrea Acquaviva, Marco Jahn, Ferry Pramudianto, Riccardo Tomasi, et al.. Event-driven user-centric middleware for energy-efficient buildings and public spaces. IEEE Systems Journal, 2014, 99, pp.1-10. ⟨10.1109/JSYST.2014.2302750⟩. ⟨hal-00985307⟩