SDB - Software Defined Buildings, UC Berkeley
Automated Building Metadata Collection and Scalable Application Deployment
Metadata of existing building systems exist in menagerie of isolated, disparate and often contradicting formats. For example, in a building as modern as the Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus ( constructed in the late 90s ), the floorplan data is captured through PDF blueprints or manual drawings in the BMS system, point names are found through manually going through the BMS system or by network discovery protocols, and the functional relationship between different components of the physical and information components are virtually non-existent. This precludes the possibility of write-once-run-everywhere building applications. This project aims at ingesting the existing chunks of building metadata into a common format taking into account the possible errors of the various ingestion sources.[??link???]
Demo Abstract: Portable Queries Using the Brick Schema for Building Applications
Bharathan Balaji , Arka Bhattacharya , Gabriel Fierro , Jingkun Gao , Joshua Gluck , Dezhi Hong , Aslak Johansen, Jason Koh , Joern Ploennigs , Yuvraj Agarwal , Mario Berges , David Culler , Rajesh Gupta , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard , Mani Srivastava , Kamin Whitehouse, 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2016. (Best Demo Award) [pdf]
Brick v1.0 - Towards a Unified Metadata Schema for Buildings
Bharathan Balaji, Arka Bhattacharya, Gabe Fierro, Jingkun Gao, Joshua Gluck, Dezhi Hong, Aslak Johansen, Jason Koh, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Berges, David E. Culler, Rajesh Gupta, Mikkel Baun Kj{\ae}rgaard, Joern Ploennigs, Kamin Whitehouse
3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2016.(Audience Choice Best Paper Award) [pdf]
"Non-Intrusive Techniques for Establishing Occupancy-Related Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings
Arka Bhattacharya, and David Culler,
3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Nov. 2016. (Best Paper Award) [pdf]
Automated Metadata Construction To Support Portable Building Applications
Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Jorge Ortiz, Dezhi Hong, and Kamin Whitehouse,
2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015. (Best Paper Nominee) [pdf]
Short Paper: A Method for Discovering Functional Relationships Between Air-Handling Units and Variable-Air-Volume Boxes From Sensor Data<
Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Marco Pritoni, and Mark Modera,
2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015. a href="files/publications/sdb/buildsys2015_functional.pdf"> [pdf]
Short Paper: Analyzing Metadata Schemas for Buildings --- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Arka Bhattacharya, Joern Ploennigs, and David Culler,
2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015. [pdf]
Poster Abstract: Automated Metadata Transformation for A-priori Deployed Sensor Networks
Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Dezhi Hong, Jorge Ortiz, and Kamin Whitehouse,
Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2014. [pdf]
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants CPS-1239552, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.