Sharing risk-awareness for reliable resource management in smart buildings

Abstract

Sustainable resource management using smart monitoring and control systems in large building complexes aims to achieve performance goals of tenants while reducing costs and reducing resource consumption. However conventional methods of optimizing resource use for normal activity may increase susceptibility to internal or external system failures. We present a cooperative approach to resource management in multi-tenant buildings that includes sharing of risk awareness and show that it is effective for increasing the reliability of resource supply for all tenants. © 2013 IEEE.