Automated metadata construction to support portable building applications

  • Arka A. Bhattacharya
  • , Dezhi Hong
  • , David Culler
  • , Jorge Ortiz
  • , Kamin Whitehouse
  • , Eugene Wu

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

40 Scopus citations

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 [23] 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 datad-riven 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.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationBuildSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages3-12
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450339810
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 4 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built, BuildSys 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Nov 4 2015Nov 5 2015

Publication series

NameBuildSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built

Other

Other2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built, BuildSys 2015
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period11/4/1511/5/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Architecture
  • Building and Construction

Keywords

  • Building management systems
  • Metadata normalization
  • Portable building applications
  • Sensor metadata

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