A flexible building management framework based on wireless sensor and actuator networks

  • Authors:

  • G. Fortino;A. Guerrieri;G. M. P. O'Hare;A. Ruzzelli

  • Affiliations:

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Universití della Calabria, Via P. Bucci cubo 41C, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Universití della Calabria, Via P. Bucci cubo 41C, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy;School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield D4, Ireland;School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield D4, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Future buildings will be constantly monitored and managed through intelligent systems that allow having information about the building health, keeping a good comfort level for the building inhabitants and optimizing the energy spent. Despite many WSN programming frameworks have been to date developed and, in some cases, applied to support monitoring of buildings, none of them possesses all the specific features needed to develop WSN-based building applications. In this article a multi-platform domain specific framework based on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) for enabling efficient and effective management of buildings is presented. The proposed Building Management Framework (BMF) provides powerful abstractions that capture the morphology of buildings to allow for the rapid development and flexible management of pervasive building monitoring applications. The functionalities of the framework are shown in an emblematic case study concerning the SmartEnergyLab that is an effective operating scenario related to the monitoring of the usage of workstations in laboratories and offices. Finally, a performance evaluation of a WSAN running the BMF in terms of network usage and system lifetime is shown.