This article describes the energy-saving measures in commercial buildings from different perspectives on energy saving cities. In recent years, improving conservation has become an issue of great importance for financial well-being organisations. The study uses define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) Six Sigma approach to identify factors that contribute increases electricity consumption...

To meet the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil, high-performance (lowenergy) buildings must be the rule rather than the exception. Typical buildings today frequently do not deliver the energy performance predicted by designers or desired by the owner. One of the primary reasons for this failure to perform is that building control systems are not designed, installed and/or operated a...

although technical development has positive consequences for public welfare, its influences on environment especially by noise is considerable. three-dimensional maps of noise pollution made it possible to control and prevent its spread. in this research, primarily because of the lack of a standard model of noise in iran, we chose the standard noise mapping method 1 (smm1) which has been spread...

In recent years, intelligent building systems have become standard in residential buildings as well as commercial buildings. This chapter presents a novel system for controlling such buildings using natural user interfaces. Due to advanced logic, it is capable of identifying people occupying defined areas and recognizing their gestures. The system cooperates with a Domatiq System – Intelligent ...

The paper deals with technical problems of automated decentralised indoor climate control in residential buildings. The lead value for the realisation of the control system is the objective thermal comfort. The measurement system to be designed works as a network between a large variety of different sensors and actuators. A comprehensive and flexible EIB networked instrumentation using cheap co...

Existing detailed simulation methods generally address the energy use of individual buildings, through the specification of its fabric, ventilation, fuelled services and occupancy patterns. Current concerns in developing sustainable built environments however often focus on groups or communities of buildings. In the Virtual Village (VIRVIL) project, means of extending detailed simulation method...

In this work, we propose new automation tools to process 2D building geometry data for effective communication and timely response to critical events in commercial buildings. Given the scale and complexity of commercial buildings, robust and visually rich tools are needed during an emergency. Our data processing pipeline consists of three major components, (1) adjacency graph construction, repr...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential for electricity savings with the use of daylighting integrated with the artificial lighting system and hybrid ventilation in commercial buildings located in Florianópolis, southern Brazil. Several models were analysed. Two cases were investigated: a reference case, operating only with air-conditioning system and another one with the use o...

A model-based approach is described to forecast triad periods for commercial buildings, using a multi-staged analysis that takes a number of different data sources into account, with each stage adding more accuracy to the model. In the first stage, a stochastic model is developed to calculate the probability of having a “triad” on a daily and half-hourly basis and to generate an alert to the bu...