TY - GEN
T1 - Instrumentation systems for commercial building energy efficiency
AU - Fugate, David
AU - Fuhr, Peter
AU - Kuruganti, Teja
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - America's 4.7 million commercial buildings account for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. energy consumption. Studies estimate that commercial building instrumentation and control systems that can provide energy management and control, HVAC commissioning, HVAC fault detection, and lighting management have the potential to reduce up to 30% energy consumption. The most significant key enabler for this progress is future instrumentation systems that can be deployed in commercial buildings with the proper balance of life cycle cost and performance. A synopsis of an ongoing ORNL R&D activity involving advanced instrumentation designed for deploying in single-story and two-story flexible research platforms at ORNL is presented. This includes low cost wireless sensor networks (WSN), energy management and control, intelligent building fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), and advanced control methodologies and how they can be applied to existing buildings as a retrofit strategy.
AB - America's 4.7 million commercial buildings account for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. energy consumption. Studies estimate that commercial building instrumentation and control systems that can provide energy management and control, HVAC commissioning, HVAC fault detection, and lighting management have the potential to reduce up to 30% energy consumption. The most significant key enabler for this progress is future instrumentation systems that can be deployed in commercial buildings with the proper balance of life cycle cost and performance. A synopsis of an ongoing ORNL R&D activity involving advanced instrumentation designed for deploying in single-story and two-story flexible research platforms at ORNL is presented. This includes low cost wireless sensor networks (WSN), energy management and control, intelligent building fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), and advanced control methodologies and how they can be applied to existing buildings as a retrofit strategy.
KW - HVAC commisssioning
KW - commercial buildings
KW - energy efficiency
KW - energy management and control
KW - fault detection and diagnosis
KW - retro-commissioning
KW - wireless networks
KW - wireless sensors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876087611&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIIW.2011.6476826
DO - 10.1109/FIIW.2011.6476826
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876087611
SN - 9781467358361
T3 - 2011 Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, FIIW 2011 - Proceedings
SP - 21
EP - 24
BT - 2011 Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, FIIW 2011 - Proceedings
T2 - 2011 Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, FIIW 2011
Y2 - 7 November 2011 through 8 November 2011
ER -
