An autonomic management framework for multi-criticality smart building applications
George N. Bravos, Vasileios Nikolopoulos, Μάρα Νικολαϊδου, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, George J. Dimitrakopoulos · 2015
The Future Internet (FI) era dictates the deployment of high complexity systems having a variety of properties such as adaptivity, self configuration and self optimization. This paper discusses on the design and deployment of an autonomic management framework, targeting real-time optimization of operational properties in a smart building cognitive environment. The architecture of an autonomous smart building system is described, focusing on diverse requirement satisfaction, including response time, energy efficiency and users' satisfaction. The main systems' components are introduced along with a indicative operation scenario that demonstrates multi - criticality issues explored. The scope of the paper is a) to point out challenges in building an autonomic smart building environment to support multi-critical applications and b) to indicate efficient solutions for dealing with them, promoting self-configuration and self-optimisation properties.