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Automated Metadata Construction to Support Portable Building Applications

Authors:

Arka A. Bhattacharya,

Kamin Whitehouse,

Eugene WuAuthors Info & Claims

BuildSys '15: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments

Pages 3 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2821650.2821667

Published: 04 November 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Commercial buildings consume nearly 19\% of delivered energy in the U.S, nearly half (42%) of which is consumed in buildings with digital control systems comprised of wired sensor networks. These sensors have scant metadata, and are represented by ``tags'' which are obscure, building-specific and not machine parseable. We develop a human-in-the-loop synthesis technique which uses syntactic and data-driven steps to parse these sensor tags into a common namespace, which can enable portable building applications. We show that our technique allows an expert to fully parse a large fraction (~70%) of the tags with 24, 15 and 43 examples for three large commercial buildings comprising 1586, 2522 and 1865 sensors respectively, and deploy three portable applications on two buildings with less than 30 examples.

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BuildSys '15: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments

November 2015

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ISBN:9781450339810

DOI:10.1145/2821650

General Chair:
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University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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University of Pennslyvania, USA

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