Projects
Enabling Energy-Aware Smart Facilities
Funding: NSF: CPS/GOALI Medium (2009 – 2012)
This project seeks to identify ways to inexpensively provide appliance-specific information about energy consumption in buildings and facilitate conservation. Signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion techniques have been developed to extract actionable information from whole-building power meters and other available sensors.
Selected Publications:
[JCCE 2011], [BuildSys 2010] (Best Paper)
Other Publications:
[JIE 2010], [ICCCBE 2010], [IAEC 2010], [CRC 2010], [ISSST 2010], [ASCE Workshop 2009], [ICCCBE 2008], [EG-ICE 2008]
Videos: [Feb. 2009]
Sensor Andrew
Funding: PITA: Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (2007 – 2009)
Sensor Andrew is an experiment on the interoperability and semantic capabilities of cyber-physical systems. It is a collection of hardware and software elements that together form a virtual instrument for large-scale sensing and actuation, intended to help deliver sensor-driven decision support for our built environment. The Sensor Andrew infrastructure enables researchers to easily tap into an Internet-scale resource of sensors and actuators in a manner that is extensible, easy-to-use, and secure while maintaining privacy.
Publications: [IBM 2010], [IPSN 2009], [Technical Report 2008]
Power and Environmental Monitoring Systems for Academic Buildings
Funding: PITA: Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (2007 – 2008)
In this project we designed, implemented and deployed a monitoring system for measuring the power consumption of two separate wings (~4,700 sq. feet) of an academic building with the intention of providing real-time room-level feedback to the building’s occupants and promote conservation. Environmental sensors were also deployed and used to provide temperature and humidity values for the spaces being monitored.
Poster: [CenSCIR Symposium 2008]
Last revised on 2012/01/11