Gabriel Fierro and David E. Culler

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-197

September 9, 2015

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-197.pdf

We present XBOS, an eXtensible Building Operating System for integrated management of previously isolated building subsystems. The key contribution of XBOS is the development of the Building Profile, a canonical, executable description of a building and its subsystems that changes with a building and evolves the control processes and applications accordingly. We discuss the design and implementation of XBOS in the context of 6 dimensions of an effective BAS -- hardware presentation layer, canonical metadata, control process management, building evolution management, security, scalable UX and API -- and evaluate against several recent building and sensor management systems. Lastly, we examine the evolution of a real, 10 month deployment of XBOS in a 7000 sq ft office building.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Fierro:EECS-2015-197,
    Author= {Fierro, Gabriel and Culler, David E.},
    Title= {XBOS: An Extensible Building Operating System},
    Year= {2015},
    Month= {Sep},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-197.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2015-197},
    Abstract= {We present XBOS, an eXtensible Building Operating System for integrated management of previously isolated building subsystems. The key contribution of XBOS is the development of the Building Profile, a canonical, executable description of a building and its subsystems that changes with a building and evolves the control processes and applications accordingly.  We discuss the design and implementation of XBOS in the context of 6 dimensions of an effective BAS -- hardware presentation layer, canonical metadata, control process management, building evolution management, security, scalable UX and API -- and evaluate against several recent building and sensor management systems. Lastly, we examine the evolution of a real, 10 month deployment of XBOS in a 7000 sq ft office building.},
}

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