Journal
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 1934-1952Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2012.07.016
Keywords
Wireless sensor and actuator networks; Domain-specific framework; Sensor programming; Building management systems
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Funding
- CONET
- Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence
- European Commission under FP7 [FP7-2007-2224053]
- TETRis - TETRA Innovative Open Source Services
- Italian Government [PON 01-00451]
- European projects HOBNET: Holistic Platform Design for Smart Buildings of the Future Internet [257466]
- EnPROVE: Energy Consumption Prediction with Building Usage Measurements for Software-Based Decision Support [248061]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [07/CE/1147]
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Future buildings will be constantly monitored and managed through intelligent systems that allow having information about the building health, keeping a good comfort level for the building inhabitants and optimizing the energy spent. Despite many WSN programming frameworks have been to date developed and, in some cases, applied to support monitoring of buildings, none of them possesses all the specific features needed to develop WSN-based building applications. In this article a multiplatform domain specific framework based on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) for enabling efficient and effective management of buildings is presented. The proposed Building Management Framework (BME) provides powerful abstractions that capture the morphology of buildings to allow for the rapid development and flexible management of pervasive building monitoring applications. The functionalities of the framework are shown in an emblematic case study concerning the SmartEnergyLab that is an effective operating scenario related to the monitoring of the usage of workstations in laboratories and offices. Finally, a performance evaluation of a WSAN running the BMF in terms of network usage and system lifetime is shown. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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