International STEM Students' Forum 2020 Collaboration Project

Intelligent Energy Management System for Buildings

 

System Architecture

 

1. Retrieval of regional weather data from the existing OpenAPI (OpenWeatherMap), storing to DB for further analysis;

2. Retrieval of outdoor weather data through several IoT devices installed outside the building, storing to DB for further analysis;

3. Retrieval of indoor conditions through several IoT devices installed inside the rooms of the building;

4. Device control of lights and temperature, change based on the analyzed regional and outdoor weather data, as well as indoor sensors and system rules.

5. Dashboard interface for authorized users to view the building conditions and manage rules, with import of timetable from existing system(s).

 

General Summary and Tasks

 

		Functional Requirements	HW/SW/OpenAPI	HK Team	UK Team	Status
A.		Regional Weather Data
	A1	Capture weather data from API	OpenWeatherMap	X		Done
	A2	Store the historical data to DB	Azure Cosmos DB / MongoDB	X		Done
B.		Outdoor Weather Nearby building
	B1	Design Sensors for data retrieval	Raspberry PI / Arduino
	B2	Export Sensors data to DB	Azure Cosmos DB / MongoDB	X
C.		Indoor Condition
	C1	Design Sensors for data retrieval	Raspberry PI / Arduino	X
	C2	Export Sensors data to DB	Azure Cosmos DB / MongoDB	X
	C3	Electronics Components controls	Raspberry PI / Arduino	X
D.		Dashboard
	D1	Display real time condition	.NET Core
	D2	Rule-based condition management	.NET Core
	D3	Timetable import (API)
		Excel to JSON			X
		ICS to JSON			X
		CSV to JSON			X
	D4	Intelligence condition control	IBM PowerAI
		By rule		X
		By timetable		X