Development of a remote building monitoring system

Conference · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:20006330

Olken, F; Jacobsen, H A; McParland, C; Piette, M A; Anderson, M F

The authors describe the design, development and initial operation of a prototype system which permits remote monitoring of multiple heterogeneous commercial buildings across the Internet from a single control center. Their system is distinguished by its ability to interface to multiple heterogeneous legacy building Energy Management Control Systems (EMCSs), its use of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard communication protocols, development of a standardized naming system for monitoring points, the use of a relational DBMS to store time series data, automatic unit conversion, and a scripted time series visualization system. The authors discuss design decisions related to the selection of CORBA and a relational DBMS implementation. They also discuss related standards efforts such as BACnet and the International Alliance for Interoperability. They conclude with discussions of the HVAC system data and future work.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 20006330
• Report Number(s): CONF-980815--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DESIGN
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
OPERATION
REMOTE SENSING
SPACE HVAC SYSTEMS