BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure

Rachel Mary Cardell-Oliver; Chayan Sarkar

doi:10.1145/3137133.3137141

BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure

Rachel Mary Cardell-Oliver, Chayan Sarkar

School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Buildings can achieve energy-eciency by using solar passive design,
energy-ecient structures and materials, or by optimizing
their operational energy use. In each of these areas, eciency can
be improved if the physical properties of the building along with
its dynamic behavior can be captured using low-cost embedded
sensor devices. This opens up a new challenge of installing and
maintaining the sensor devices for dierent types of buildings. In
this article, we propose BuildSense, a sensing framework for negrained,
long-term monitoring of buildings using a mix of physical
and virtual sensors. It not only reduces the deployment and management
cost of sensors but can also guarantee ne-grained, accurate
data coverage for long-term use. We evaluate BuildSense using
sensor measurements from two rammed-earth houses that were
custom-designed for a challenging hot-arid climate such that almost
no articial heating or cooling is used. We demonstrate that
BuildSense can signicantly reduce the costs of permanent physical
sensors whilst still achieve t-for-purpose accuracy and stability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	BuildSys'17
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments
Editors	Rasit Eskicioglu
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450354769
ISBN (Print)	9781450354769
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3137133.3137141
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2017
Event	4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 8 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017 Conference number: 4

Publication series

Name	BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments
Volume	2017-January

Conference

Conference	4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments
Abbreviated title	BuildSys2017
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	8/11/17 → 9/11/17

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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http://www.chayansarkar.com/papers/chayan_buildsys17.pdfLicence: CC BY-NC-ND

Rammed-Earth Houses Thermal Performance Measurements
Cardell-Oliver, R. (Creator), Beckett, C. (Contributor), Ciancio, D. (Supervisor) & Hubner, C. (Contributor), The University of Western Australia, 29 Nov 2018
DOI: 10.26182/5bff840f65169
Dataset

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Investigation of the Thermal Performance of Rammed Earth Residential Buildings & Implications in Energy Saving Design
Ciancio, D. (Chief Investigator), Cardell-Oliver, R. (Chief Investigator), Huebner, C. (Chief Investigator), Mahony, L. (Chief Investigator) & Carpenter, D. (Chief Investigator)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/14 → 31/12/15
Project: Research

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Cardell-Oliver, R. M., & Sarkar, C. (2017). BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure. In R. Eskicioglu (Ed.), BuildSys'17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments; Vol. 2017-January). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3137133.3137141

Cardell-Oliver, Rachel Mary ; Sarkar, Chayan. / BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure. BuildSys'17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments . editor / Rasit Eskicioglu. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. (BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments).

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Cardell-Oliver, RM & Sarkar, C 2017, BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure. in R Eskicioglu (ed.), BuildSys'17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments . BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, vol. 2017-January, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, Delft, Netherlands, 8/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3137133.3137141

BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure. / Cardell-Oliver, Rachel Mary; Sarkar, Chayan.
BuildSys'17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments . ed. / Rasit Eskicioglu. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. (BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments; Vol. 2017-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review

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Cardell-Oliver RM, Sarkar C. BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure. In Eskicioglu R, editor, BuildSys'17: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments . New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. (BuildSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments). doi: 10.1145/3137133.3137141

BuildSense: Long-term, fine-grained building monitoring with minimal sensor infrastructure

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Rammed-Earth Houses Thermal Performance Measurements

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Investigation of the Thermal Performance of Rammed Earth Residential Buildings & Implications in Energy Saving Design

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