New Energy Management Technologies for Intelligent Buildings

EPFL scientists are developing a new concept of a smart building that adjusts to your lifestyle, by allowing you to control your preferences. The Internet of Things (IoT) involves monitoring your overall energy consumption by networking together all of your devices. The EPFL team is using the IoT to redefine the idea of the smart building by putting the user's comfort at the core of the system. You, the user, can control your own comfort – temperature, humidity, and lighting – in careful balance with how much energy you consume and how much is available from the power grid. Their concept of a smart building has three components. The first consists of electronics that would have to be integrated into all of the building's appliances and plugs. The electronics make each appliance intelligent, first by adding control-at-a-distance, but also by collecting data about how you use a specific appliance. The second component is the user interface, with a built-in learning mechanism: the interface allows you to control your appliance, while learning about your energy habits and preferences. The third is the building, as a whole, and how it interacts with the environment and its energy demands for intelligent management with the grid.

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00:00:04 we are developing A New Concept for an intelligent building we are putting emphasis on occupants mean that occupants those building intelligent building are capable to manage two things their own comfort and manage the energy consumed which is new we have three components in this such system the first one is this kind of electronics and then this one is belongs appliances

00:00:26 we put everywhere this kind of electronics into appliances then the second is a users interface where it's an intelligent system learning from people and the third one is for sure the building the building the infrastructure the appliances and everything we need the electronics we have in the appliances is capable to detect with this identity card and that identify the

00:00:49 person and then the adjustment as of all the applying level I mean the light in the room the temperature in the room everything's is controlled with this kind of interface it's absolutely uh show today that the cities becomes an intelligent City this smart cities is a part of the future and building intelligent building is as well part of the intelligent cities