An autonomic management framework for multi-criticality smart building applications

The Future Internet (FI) era dictates the deployment of high complexity systems having a variety of properties such as adaptivity, self configuration and self optimization. This paper discusses on the design and deployment of an autonomic management framework, targeting real-time optimization of operational properties in a smart building cognitive environment. The architecture of an autonomous smart building system is described, focusing on diverse requirement satisfaction, including response time, energy efficiency and users´ satisfaction. The main systems´ components are introduced along with a indicative operation scenario that demonstrates multi - criticality issues explored. The scope of the paper is a) to point out challenges in building an autonomic smart building environment to support multi-critical applications and b) to indicate efficient solutions for dealing with them, promoting self-configuration and self-optimisation properties.