Remote Building Monitoring and Control
Frank Olken, Chuck McParland, Mary Ann Piette, Dale Sartor, Stephen E. Selkowitz · 1996
This project is intended to develop a prototype system which would permit remote monitoring and control of multiple commercial buildings across the Internet from a single control center. Such a system would be used by operators of multiple buildings, such as school districts, governments, universities, large retailers, utility companies, building management firms, et al. We anticipate that such a system would reduce the labor costs of building monitoring and control and thereby permit more extensive monitoring and control of building HVAC and lighting systems. We estimate that this will generate improvements in building energy efficiency of 15 percent on average. Phase I of the project involves the following components: ffl A gateway between the building energy monitoring and control system (EMCS) and the Internet. This gateway is intended to present a common interface to the remote building monitoring control system via the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) protocols....