An application for gathering data on construction elements of existing buildings for smart phones
Lipušček, Tomaž · Repozitorij Univerze v Ljubljani (Univerze v Lgubljani) · 2013
Housing stock in Slovenia consists of buildings from different periods of time. As a result, there are wide differences in building’s energy indicators. If their condition data would be systematically collected, there would be greater possibility of housing stock review and further analysis. Convenient usage of smart phone software could make it easier for housings owners and managers to fill the mobile application’s form and inform them about the facility’s current energy status and the possibilities for its improvement. For our thesis we designed a mobile application that, using a simplified calculation methodology based on the information previously filled in by the user, provides him with indicative results about building’s heat losses. Information of structural elements is sent to a central server that collects data from all buildings that have been analyzed with this application. The Application collects information about the facility’s location and dimensions, the temperature inside the building and surface areas with its structural elements. The existing inventory of buildings can be saved and opened to/from SD card. Before the data is sent, it is stored in the smart device using internal database SQLite. To send the data to a central server where MySQL database is installed, we used the JDBC driver and installation of a servlet application on server. The Application was designed for Android mobile operating system. It was written in Java programming language in an integrated development environment Eclipse using Android Development Tools plug-in. The result of thesis is a useful tool which could help raising awareness and take action towards the reduction of energy consumption in buildings.