SMART Buildings: Intelligent Software Agents

Abstract

To further reduce the energy consumption of existing buildings, intelligent building control offers new possibilities. Intelligent Software Agents (ISA) can be implemented at different levels of building automation. Individual agents for individual climate control for each user of the building in combination with feedback on the energy consumption (costs) leads to better acceptance of the individual comfort and a reduction of the energy consumption. ISA’s at room level with knowledge of the actual weather situation and orientation of the windows, improves efficiency of the used available energy resources of a building and this leads to better energy performance at lower costs. The technology was tested in field tests at different office buildings in the Netherlands.