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Building Automation: Experience with Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Room

Authors:
Maxime Louvel
Francois Pacull
Safietou Raby Thior
Maria Isabel Vergara Gallego
Oussama Yaakoubi

Keywords: Coordination; middleware; building automation

Abstract:
This paper details a case study in the domain of building automation systems. This case study is the reconfiguration of a room that can be split in two or merged in one according to the current needs. The building is equipped with the LON system, a standard in building automation. Such a reconfiguration is normally done manually by a skilled technician. Thanks to our approach, it can now be autonomous and triggered by various external events such as sensor readings, a remote controller or information from an agenda. To achieve dynamic reconfiguration in this context we rely on LINC, a coordination middleware providing an abstraction layer allowing the encapsulation of hardware and software components. Thus, we can not only integrate sensors and actuators but also legacy systems such as the LON configuration tool. The coordination is provided by coordination rules which can be statically defined at application deployment or dynamically added or removed to reconfigure the system.

Pages: 157 to 162

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-374-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014