Authors:
Liam Moore
1
;
Mike Hayes
1
;
Brendan O. Flynn
1
;
Cian O. Mathuna
1
;
Emmanuel Frecon
2
;
Joakim Ericksson
2
;
Peeter Kool
3
;
Peter Rosengren
3
;
Alberto Fernandez
4
;
Jacek Rosik
5
and
Donagh MacSuibhne
6
Affiliations:
1
The Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
;
2
The Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
;
3
CNET, Sweden
;
4
Sensing and Control, Spain
;
5
ResourceKraft., Ireland
;
6
ARUP, Ireland
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Network, 6LoWPAN, BMS, Retrofit, Middleware.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Embedded Sensor Networks
;
Energy and Economy
;
Energy Profiling and Measurement
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Smart Cities
;
Smart Grids
;
Smart Homes (Domotics)
;
Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications
;
Sustainable Computing and Communications
Abstract:
This paper presents the design and implementation of a wireless monitoring and actuation network for residential and commercial buildings that was carried out as part of the ARTEMIS funded project ME3gas. The aim of this deployment is to demonstrate that low cost wireless sensor networks can be used in situations where a full building management system may not be suitable technically or commercially either in residential home applications or commercial enterprises. This work focuses not just on electricity consumption but also on gas consumption into the building. The current deployment consists of a number of wireless sensor motes retrofitted throughout a residential building converted for office use. The WSN nodes are based on the Tyndall modular mote platform running the Contiki operating system and communicating with a mesh network running IPV6 through 6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4 at 2.4GHz. Each node is configured for a specific task within the framework of enabling energy effici
ency and these tasks can be broadly described as, environmental sensing, metering (gas and electricity) and actuation. The motes are controlled through the LinkSmart middleware platform which is an open source hardware agnostic system for building energy management, which hides the underlying physical layer allowing ease of development for web based applications, which is also demonstrated as part of this work.
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