Abstract
Advanced control strategies are becoming increasingly necessary in buildings in order to meet and balance requirements for energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and occupant comfort. Additional development and widespread adoption of emerging control strategies, however, ultimately require low implementation costs to reduce payback period and verified performance to gain control vendor, building owner, and operator trust. This is difficult in an already first-cost driven and risk-averse industry. Recent innovations in building simulation can significantly aid in meeting these requirements and spurring innovation at early stages of development by evaluating performance, comparing state-of-the-art to new strategies, providing installation experience, and testing controller implementations. This paper presents the development of a simulation framework consisting of test cases and software platform for the testing of advanced control strategies (BOPTEST - Building Optimization Performance Test). The objectives and requirements of the framework, components of a test case, and proposed software platform architecture are described, and the framework is demonstrated with a prototype implementation and example test case.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 16th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Building Simulation 2019 |
| Editors | Vincenzo Corrado, Enrico Fabrizio, Andrea Gasparella, Francesco Patuzzi |
| Publisher | International Building Performance Simulation Association |
| Pages | 2737-2744 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781713809418 |
| State | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 16th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Building Simulation 2019 - Rome, Italy Duration: Sep 2 2019 → Sep 4 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Building Simulation Conference Proceedings |
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| Volume | 4 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2522-2708 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Building Simulation 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Rome |
| Period | 09/2/19 → 09/4/19 |
Funding
This research was supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Building Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government. The financial support of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 723649 (MPC-;GT), No 731231 (FHP) and No 656889 (GEOTeCH), and the support of the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) through PhD Fellowship 1714 are acknowledged. This work emerged from the IBPSA Project 1, an international project conducted under the umbrella of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). Project 1 w i l l develop and demonstrate a BEVI/GIS and Modélica Framework for building and community energy system design and operation.