Smart buildings as Cyber-Physical Systems: Data-driven predictive control strategies for energy efficiency

M Schmidt, C Åhlund - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to its significant contribution to global energy usage and the associated greenhouse
gas emissions, existing building stock's energy efficiency must improve. Predictive building …

The role of big data analytics in Internet of Things

E Ahmed, I Yaqoob, IAT Hashem, I Khan, AIA Ahmed… - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
The explosive growth in the number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and
the exponential increase in data consumption only reflect how the growth of big data …

Brick: Metadata schema for portable smart building applications

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao, J Gluck… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 32% of worldwide energy usage. A new regime of exciting new
“applications” that span a distributed fabric of sensors, actuators and humans has emerged …

[HTML][HTML] Energy performance optimization in buildings: A review on semantic interoperability, fault detection, and predictive control

GA Benndorf, D Wystrcil, N Réhault - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The building sector accounts for about 30% of the global final energy consumption. Most of
the consumed energy originates from fossil fuels. The operation of buildings is known to …

Brick: Towards a unified metadata schema for buildings

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings have long since been a primary target for applications from a number
of areas: from cyber-physical systems to building energy use to improved human …

[PDF][PDF] Design of an effective ontology and query processor enabling portable building applications

G Fierro - … Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of …, 2019 - gtf.fyi
The US Department of Energy reports that commercial buildings constituted 47% of all
energy consumed in the US in 2017 [107]. On average, 30% of this energy is wasted [34] …

An end-to-end implementation of a service-oriented architecture for data-driven smart buildings

L Chamari, E Petrova, P Pauwels - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Buildings connect with multiple information systems like Building Management Systems
(BMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), IoT devices, Building Information Models …

Mortar: an open testbed for portable building analytics

G Fierro, M Pritoni, M AbdelBaky, D Lengyel… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Access to large amounts of real-world data has long been a barrier to the development and
evaluation of analytics applications for the built environment. Open datasets exist, but they …

Shepherding metadata through the building lifecycle

G Fierro, AK Prakash, C Mosiman, M Pritoni… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its
lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of …

Occupant thermal feedback for improved efficiency in university buildings

M Pritoni, K Salmon, A Sanguinetti, J Morejohn… - Energy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for more
than half of the energy consumed in many buildings on university campuses in the US …