Jorge Ortiz
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2010-128
September 28, 2010
http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-128.pdf
In order to reduce building energy consumption, we need a global, accurate view of the building. Many modern buildings have a sensing infrastructure that can be used to do fine-grained accounting and under- stand the complex interactions between systems and spaces. However, through our experience with an active, campus-wide Building Management System (BMS) system, we observe that BMSs are not well suited for this task. In buildings, there is a fundamental relationship be- tween systems and spaces. The Integrated Sensor- Stream Storage System (IS4) captures this relationship by constructing a resource hierarchy that names mea- surement instruments relative to their context. This al- lows us to bring together systems and spaces through the instruments within them. Furthermore, IS4 keeps track of changes in the hierarchy over time. It is also de- signed to simplify data acquisition and exploits the nam- ing structure for simpler, context-dependent queries. We have implemented IS4 and are currently using it to mon- itor Cory Hall at UC Berkeley as well as independent deployments at Samsung, Intel, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Ortiz:EECS-2010-128, Author = {Ortiz, Jorge}, Editor = {Culler, David E.}, Title = {A System for Managing Physical Data in Buildings}, Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley}, Year = {2010}, Month = {Sep}, URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-128.html}, Number = {UCB/EECS-2010-128}, Abstract = {In order to reduce building energy consumption, we need a global, accurate view of the building. Many modern buildings have a sensing infrastructure that can be used to do fine-grained accounting and under- stand the complex interactions between systems and spaces. However, through our experience with an active, campus-wide Building Management System (BMS) system, we observe that BMSs are not well suited for this task. In buildings, there is a fundamental relationship be- tween systems and spaces. The Integrated Sensor- Stream Storage System (IS4) captures this relationship by constructing a resource hierarchy that names mea- surement instruments relative to their context. This al- lows us to bring together systems and spaces through the instruments within them. Furthermore, IS4 keeps track of changes in the hierarchy over time. It is also de- signed to simplify data acquisition and exploits the nam- ing structure for simpler, context-dependent queries. We have implemented IS4 and are currently using it to mon- itor Cory Hall at UC Berkeley as well as independent deployments at Samsung, Intel, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.} }
EndNote citation:
%0 Report %A Ortiz, Jorge %E Culler, David E. %T A System for Managing Physical Data in Buildings %I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley %D 2010 %8 September 28 %@ UCB/EECS-2010-128 %U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-128.html %F Ortiz:EECS-2010-128