Holistic design of wireless building automation systems

Author

Ploennigs, Joern ; Dibowski, Henrik ; Ryssel, Uwe ; Kabitzsch, Klaus

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Dresden, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Wireless building automation systems are gaining momentum as they promise an easy installation in old and new buildings. But, the design of wireless building automation systems is still an extensive manual process with little to no tool support. In result, the system commissioning ends in trial-and-error set-ups to identify interoperable devices, to solve issues with wireless signal propagation and to understand energy problems of nodes. This paper introduces a holistic design approach that addresses these common issues in wireless building automation system design. It takes up novel design concepts and tools from wired system design and combines them in a holistic tool environment that supports the engineer in his common work flow to efficiently design reliable wireless building automation systems.

Keywords

building management systems; radio networks; holistic design; holistic tool environment; interoperable devices; system commissioning; wireless building automation system; wireless signal propagation; Automation; Buildings; Design automation; Planning; System analysis and design; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0017-0

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059107

Filename

6059107