BuildSys 2012 Program
November 6, 2012
7:00-8:00 Registration and Breakfast
8:00-8:10 Welcome :: Opening remarks by the chair
Session: Behavior
Session Chair: TBD
8:10-8:30 |
1.1 |
Toward Adaptive Comfort Management in Office Buildings Using Participatory Sensing for End User Driven Control |
8:30-8:35 |
Q&A + Transition |
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8:35-8:55 |
1.2 |
Thermovote: Participatory Sensing for Efficient Building HVAC Conditioning |
8:55-9:00 |
Q&A + Transition |
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9:00-9:20 |
1.3 |
Effect of Social Network Type on Building Occupant Energy Use |
9:20-9:25 |
Q&A + Transition |
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9:25-9:45 |
1.4 |
Building the Case For Automated Building Energy Management |
9:45-9:50 |
Q&A + Transition |
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9:50-10:00 |
"1-Min Madness" |
1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos |
1.5P |
Weather-Clustering Based Strategy Design for Dynamic Demand Response Building HVAC Control (Short Paper) |
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1.6P |
Smart Energy Case Study (Short Paper) |
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1.7P |
EarlyOff: Using House Cooling Rates To Save Energy (Short Paper) |
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1.8P |
Towards real-time, fined-grained energy analytics in buildings through mobile phones (Short Paper) |
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1.9P |
Risk-sensitive Plan Execution for Connected Sustainable Home |
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1.10P |
Low-cost Appliance State Sensing for Energy Disaggregation (Short Paper) |
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1.11P |
Minimizing Intrusiveness in Home Energy Measurement |
10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break
Session: Software
Session Chair: Kamin Whitehouse (U. Virginia)
10:30-10:50 |
2.1 |
BuildingDepot: An Extensible and Distributed Architecture for Building Data Storage, Access and Sharing |
10:55-10:55 |
Q&A + Transition |
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10:55-11:15 |
2.2 |
Building Application Stack (BAS) |
11:15-11:20 |
Q&A + Transition |
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11:25-11:45 |
2.3 |
SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management |
11:45-11:50 |
Q&A + Transition |
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11:50-12:05 |
"1-Min Madness" |
1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos |
2.4P |
A Methodology for Sensor Modeling and Placement Optimization to Support Temperature Monitoring (Short Paper) |
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2.5P |
Hot Water DJ: Saving Energy by Pre-mixing Hot Water |
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2.6P |
Semi-Automated Modular Modeling of Buildings for Model Predictive Control |
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2.7P |
Active Actuator Fault Detection and Diagnostics in HVAC Systems |
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2.8P |
Accurate Real-Time Occupant Energy-Footprinting in Commercial Buildings |
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2.9P |
MLE+: A Tool for Integrated Design and Deployment of Energy Efficient Building Controls |
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2.10D |
Demo Abstract: Scalable Load Disaggregation System Using Distributed Electrical Signature Detection |
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2.11D |
Demo Abstract: Holistic Energy Consumption Monitoring in Buildings with IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks |
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2.12D |
Demo Abstract: A Wi-Fi Based Occupancy Sensing Approach to Smart Energy in Commercial Office Buildings |
12:05-13:00 Lunch
Session: Communication
Session Chair: Fred Jiang (Intel)
13:00-13:20 |
3.1 |
ConcreteCom: A New Communication Paradigm for Building Structural Health Monitoring |
13:20-13:25 |
Q&A + Transition |
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13:25-13:45 |
3.2 |
Designing Cost-Efficient Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks for Building Control Systems |
13:45-13:50 |
Q&A + Transition |
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13:50-14:05 |
"1-Min Madness" |
1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos |
3.3D |
Demo Abstract: Social Learning SoftThermostat for Commercial Buildings |
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3.4D |
Demo Abstract: An Adaptive Smart Lighting System |
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3.5D |
Demo Abstract: TWIST Actu - A RESTful Testbed Platform for Remote Experimentation With Building Automation Sensors and Actuators |
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3.6D |
Demo Abstract: Zone-level Occupancy Counting with Existing Infrastructure |
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3.7D |
Demo Abstract: Dynamic Resource Look-up and Discovery Architecture for Indoor Location-based Service |
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3.8D |
Demo Abstract: Acomni: An Alternative Smart Thermostat Interface to Aid End Users to Visualize Energy and Cost Tradeoffs |
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3.9D |
Demo Abstract: A Scalable Low-Cost Solution to Provide Personalized Home Heating Advice to Households |
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3.10D |
Demo Abstract: Augmenting homes with custom devices using .NET Gadgeteer and HomeOS |
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3.11D |
Demo Abstract: MLE+: A Tool for Integrated Design and Deployment of Energy Efficient Building Controls |
14:05-15:30 Posters + Demos + Refreshment Breaks :: 14 Posters (8 full papers, 6 short papers), 13 Demos
Session: Control
Session Chair: Alan Marchiori (UTRC)
15:30-15:50 |
4.1 |
An Integrated Performance Analysis Framework for HVAC Systems Using Heterogeneous Data Models and Building Automation Systems |
15:50-15:55 |
Q&A + Transition |
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15:55-16:15 |
4.2 |
A Finite State Machine-based Characterization of Building Entities for Monitoring and Control |
16:15-16:20 |
Q&A + Transition |
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16:20-16:40 |
4.3 |
Energy-Aware Meeting Scheduling Algorithms for Smart Buildings |
16:40-16:45 |
Q&A + Transition |
16:45-17:00 Bio Break
Session: Modeling and Sensing
Session Chair: Dane Christensen (NREL)
17:00-17:20 |
5.1 |
Towards Automatic Classification of Private Households Using Electricity Consumption Data |
17:20-17:25 |
Q&A + Transition |
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17:25-17:45 |
5.2 |
Creating a Room Connectivity Graph of a Building from Per-Room Sensor Units |
17:45-17:50 |
Q&A + Transition |
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17:50-18:10 |
5.3 |
Lies, Damn lies and Preferences; a Gaussian Process Model for Ubiqutious Thermal Preference Trials |
18:10-18:15 |
Q&A + Transition |
18:15-18:30 Closing Award Presentations, Wrap up comments