2009 Proceeding- General Chair:
- Antonio Ruzzelli
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to BuildSys, the 1st ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings, held in Berkeley, California, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009. The workshop, although only on its 1st edition, received a tremendous interest from the research committee, which allowed a highly-regarded technical program committee to be composed. The number and quality of submissions exceeded by far our initial expectations. For time limitation, we could only accept the 12 best submissions and we had to reject several high-quality papers that I am sure will find a good publishing venue.
The main objective of BuildSys is to provide an ideal venue to address research achievements and challenges in the area of embedded sensing and networked systems, specifically targeting energy saving in Buildings. Sensing, monitoring and actuating systems are expected to play a key role in reducing buildings overall energy consumption. Leveraging sensor systems to support energy efficiency in buildings poses novel research challenges in monitoring how the space is used, controlling devices, interfacing with smart energy meters and communicating with the energy grid. I hope that BuildSys will be supportive in developing a community of researchers to address this Worldwide challenge. As you know, the workshop topic is timely and important; hence, I expect that it will be an exciting and lively forum to discuss new research directions in this field.
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Challenges in resource monitoring for residential spaces
Buildings consume approximately 73% of the total electrical energy, and 12% of the potable water resources in the United States. Even a moderate reduction in this sector results in significant monetary and resource savings. Fine-grained resource ...
Using circuit-level power measurements in household energy management systems
The first requirement for any intelligent household energy management system is to be able to accurately measure energy usage in the home. Measuring energy usage is not difficult, however we must decide what to measure. Whole-home energy measurement is ...
The case for apportionment
Apportioning the total energy consumption of a building or organisation to individual users may provide incentives to make reductions. We explore how sensor systems installed in many buildings today can be used to apportion energy consumption between ...
Energy efficient building environment control strategies using real-time occupancy measurements
- Varick L. Erickson,
- Yiqing Lin,
- Ankur Kamthe,
- Rohini Brahme,
- Amit Surana,
- Alberto E. Cerpa,
- Michael D. Sohn,
- Satish Narayanan
Current climate control systems often rely on building regulation maximum occupancy numbers for maintaining proper temperatures. However, in many situations, there are rooms that are used infrequently, and may be heated or cooled needlessly. Having ...
A wireless sensor network design tool to support building energy management
The physical location of sensor nodes strongly influences the performance of the network from the perspective of accurate data sensing and reliable communication. Therefore deployment planning can be regarded as an essential stepping stone to producing ...
Towards a zero-configuration wireless sensor network architecture for smart buildings
Today's buildings account for a large fraction of our energy consumption. In an effort to economize scarce fossil fuels on earth, sensor networks are a valuable tool to increase the energy efficiency of buildings without severely reducing our quality of ...
iSense: a wireless sensor network based conference room management system
- Kumar Padmanabh,
- Adi Malikarjuna,
- Sougata Sen,
- Siva Prasad Katru,
- Amrit Kumar,
- Sai Pawankumar C,
- Sunil Kumar Vuppala,
- Sanjoy Paul
In this paper, we have studied the IT system (e.g. MS-outlook) that is used to book meeting rooms in a corporate environment. In the existing IT system, the status of meeting rooms is manually entered, and as a result, it is not reflected in real time ...
Efficient application integration in IP-based sensor networks
Sensor networks are seen as an important part in emerging office and building energy management system, but the integration of sensor networks with future energy management systems is still an open problem. We present an IP-based sensor network system ...
Home energy saving through a user profiling system based on wireless sensors
The high energy required by home appliances (like white goods, audio/video devices and communication equipments) and air conditioning systems (heating and cooling), makes our homes one of the most critical areas for the impact of energy consumption on ...
The energy dashboard: improving the visibility of energy consumption at a campus-wide scale
Presenting a fairly controlled environment for instrumentation and implementation of energy use policies, the University of California at San Diego provides an excellent testbed to characterize and understand energy consumption of buildings at the scale ...
Evaluation of energy-efficiency in lighting systems using sensor networks
In modern energy aware buildings, lighting control systems are put in place so to maximise the energy-efficiency of the lighting system without effecting the comfort of the occupant. In many cases this involves utilising a set of presence sensors, with ...
The self-programming thermostat: optimizing setback schedules based on home occupancy patterns
Programmable thermostats offer large potential energy savings without sacrificing comfort, but only if setback schedules are defined correctly. We present the concept of a self-programming thermostat that automatically creates an optimal setback ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| BuildSys '21 | 107 | 28 | 26% |
| BuildSys '20 | 139 | 38 | 27% |
| BuildSys '19 | 131 | 40 | 31% |
| BuildSys '15 | 66 | 20 | 30% |
| BuildSys '13 | 57 | 22 | 39% |
| Overall | 500 | 148 | 30% |