ACM BuildSyS 2009 - ACM BuildSyS 2009 The First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings

ACM BuildSyS 2009, "The First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings".

Sensing, monitoring and actuating systems are expected to play a key role in reducing buildings overall energy consumption. Leveraging sensor systems to support energy efficiency in buildings poses novel research challenges in monitoring how the space is used, controlling devices, interfacing with smart energy meters and communicating
with the energy grid. This includes developing energy efficient algorithms of control systems, integrating heterogeneous devices, personalizing and presenting data to generate energy awareness. These challenges include making sensed data available to any connected device, facilitating reasoning from multiple sources of data achieving global energy conservation over a combination of different systems, and devising control systems that support a multitude of network actuators.

We solicit contributions that focus on the design of architectures that are capable of improving the global energy efficiency of buildings leveraging connected sensing systems, networks, and devices. Of particular interest is also the application of sensing and actuation technologies to distributed energy generation systems, i.e., systems to generate energy from federated small energy sources such as microgrids and local green energy sources. Successful papers will demonstrate how much energy is reduced by the authors' contribution, either through real-world results or credible simulation and analysis. We expect concise papers (max. 6 pages) presenting results from field trials, theoretical and practical issues of improving energy-efficiency in buildings by using embedded sensing systems written from both an academic and an industrial perspective.


Nov. 3, 2009 - Berkeley, CA, US

Workshop page: http://buildsys.ucd.ie/

Call for Papers (pdf version): http://buildsys.ucd.ie/content/call-papers/


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 Aug 2009

Paper notification: 20 Sept 2009

Camera ready due: 1 Oct 2009

Workshop date: 3 Nov 2009

Technically supported by ACM, Clarity Centre, SENSEI.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Sensor-based architecture for energy saving in buildings
- Building energy monitoring, prediction and decision support
- Technology integration into smart grid and alternative energy sources
- Energy saving and peak leveling through energy metering
- Energy efficiency for data centers
- Application studies / field trials
- Cross-systems power conservation
- Architecture for integration and interoperability of sensor systems
(e.g. 6LowPAN, IP, BacNET, Powerline, etc)
- Experimental evaluation of low-power industrial communication standards
- Distributed processing and reasoning

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Convergence of communication architectures and protocols
- Cross-network energy-efficient protocols
- Data gathering, transport, mining, dissemination across multiple networks
- New application scenarios and use cases
- Integration with existing communication systems
- Web Services and databases for sensor systems

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR

General chair:
Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Co-organisers:
Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Michele Rossi, Universita' di Padova, Italy.

TPC Chairs:
Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden.
Tommaso Melodia, University of Buffalo, US.

TPC Members:
Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin GE)
Alexandru Petrescu (CEA, FR)
Anthony Schoofs (UCD, IE)
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC, US)
Branislay Kusy (Stanford, US)
Cormac Sreenan (UCC, IE)
David Culler (UC Berkeley, US)
Francis Rubinstein (LBNL, US)
Gregory Oâ?™Hare (UCD, IE)
Jonathan Hui (UC Berkeley, US)
J.P. Vasseur (Cisco, FR)
Kay Römer (ETH Zurich)
Martijn Bennebroek (Philips, NL)
Michele Zorzi (UniPD, IT)
Misha Dolher (CTTC, ES)
Prabal Dutta (UC Berkeley, US)
Stefan Dulman (TU Delft, NL)
Vartika Bhandari (Illinois, US)
Wedi Heinzelman (Rochester, US)
William W. Braham (UPenn, US)
Zach Shelby (Sensinode, FI)

Workshop Introduction:
Prof. D. Culler (UC Berkeley)
Computer Science Department

Keynote:
Prof. A. Majumdar
Director of the Environmental
Energy Technologies Division at
Lawrence Berkeley

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
Manuscripts must be submitted by using the EDAS conference management system (http://www.edas.info). Conference language is
English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper, with all fonts embedded, using the ACM
conference proceedings format. Paper length is limited to six two-column pages, in a font no smaller than ten points.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The Proceedings will be published in the workshop proceedings adjunct and archived in the ACM
Digital Library (pending approval).