Smart Buildings and Smart Energy CITRIS Kickoff meeting

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Smart Buildings and Smart EnergyCITRIS Kickoff
meeting Sept. 18 2001
J. Rabaey College of Engineering, University of
California at Berkeley
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Smart Buildings
Integrated network of sensor, control,
andactuator nodes

• Improves quality-of-living
• Saves energy
• Provides security
• Helps localizing items
• Extends building-human interface

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A Proof-of-ConceptA 6 month demonstrator
Leaders Pister, Culler, Trent, Sastry, Rabaey

• Easy
• Fully instrument a number of buildings on
  campus with networked light and temperature
  sensors in every room, and make the data
  available on a centralized web-site.
• Medium
• Make a wireless power monitor with a standard
  3-prong feedthrough receptacle so that people can
  monitor power consumption of electronic devices
  as a function of time. Provide roughly one
  thousand such devices for rotating use around the
  campus to educate, chart usage, verify
  compliance, real-time display of consumption in a
  given room or lab. The impact of these simple
  metering devices could be tremendous.
• Similar device, but passively coupled to
  high-power wiring to monitor total power
  consumption through breaker boxes. This would
  give us a much finer granularity of
  power-consumption details, and let us look at
  clusters of rooms, floors, etc.
• Fully instrument the campus network
• Hard
• Real-time monitoring and control of hundreds of
  power systems on campus. Enforce compliance with
  load reduction. Charge/reward departments
  according to their use during peak times.

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Questions for today

• what are our resources, and how can we get more
• SmartDust, SensorWeb, PicoRadio, DARPA, NSF, ITR,
  need other ones
• who are the players, what are our strengths
• what can we safely promise in terms of
  deliverables over the next year and beyond
• Testbed?
• How to kick-start and structure the research
  program
• Meetings, brainstorming sessions, web-pages,
  information database??

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The Process

• Set of focus workshops (to bridge into the
  existing efforts at the application layers
  building industry, energy industry, etc)
• Set of brainstorming sessions to architect system
• Evolutionary testbed
• 4th floor of Cory Hall / 6th floor of Soda
• Use virtual model of new buildings for analysis
  and experimentation
• The new network center in Cory Hall (coming on
  board (fall 2002)
• share with other application areas (disaster
  management)
• Immersion in developed technology
• Work with other interested parties
• LBL, CBE, etc

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Challenges/Opportunities

• Bridging between applications and emerging
  technologies
• Intelligence in closing the loop
• Opportunities
• Instantaneous, ubiquitous, distributed
• Joint sensoring
• User interface
• Energy component dynamically matching supply and
  demand
• Role of distributed generation
• Dealing with outages
• Infrastructure as a dynamic enabler
• Varying needs over time energy/HVAC/QOL

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Participation/extension needs

• Existing efforts at the application level
• Bringing social impact into the picture(The
  Xerox privacy issue)
• Intelligent risk management
• Flow through to residential environments

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Potential Resources

• DOE
• DARPA (Immune Buildings)
• State funding for staff support of
  deployment/deployed networks