Automatic sensor arrangement system for building energy and environmental management

Abstract

Building Energy Management System (BEMS) can save energy and minimize the impact on the environment due to energy efficiency technologies and systems. The most important thing of Building Energy Management is the monitoring of indoor environment in a building by various sensors such as temperature sensor, humidity sensor, illuminance sensor, motion sensor and CO2 sensor. We need to arrange environmental sensors automatically instead of manual disposition because it can save money and time, and display the disposition map of sensors in a monitor as a form of two dimensions or three dimensions. In this paper, we propose two types of automatic sensor arrangement system for building energy and environmental management which are automatic sensor arrangement system based on optimal disposition and automatic sensor arrangement system based on installation expenses, and explain each simulator algorithm and show arrangement positions of sensors in a designated room as a form of two dimensions. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.