A distributed, event-driven building management platform on web technologies

This paper presents the system architecture of an event-based building management platform. By incorporating the distributed computing technologies in its core, it is able to adaptively scale horizontally without the redesign and the configuration downtime. The commodity hardware and networks used, permit vertical scaling if performance requirements change after the deployment. Additionally, the proposed solution offers an abstraction layer to the management components and the construction framework. This layer is built on modern web technologies facilitating the creation of innovating user driver applications and demand side management coordinators that are universal across the various building structures. Eventually this unification of the high performance management systems and the modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) shall catalyze the integration of smart buildings in the future smart cities.