BuildSys 2010 - 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings and Surroundings

2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings and Surroundings

Zurich, Switzerland - November 2, 2010, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2010

(http://buildsys.org/2010)

Important dates:

* Submission deadline: 30 July 2010

* Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2010

* Camera Ready Due: 25 September 2010

* Workshop date: 2 November 2010

The World is increasingly experiencing a strong need for energy consumption reduction and a need for efficient use of scarce natural resources. Official studies report that buildings account for the largest portion of World's energy expenditure and have the fastest growth rate. Clearly, energy saving strategies that target energy use in buildings and surroundings can have a major impact worldwide, driving the current energy market toward self-sufficiency and self-sustainability. This calls for effective techniques and methods that enable accurate carbon foot printing, monitoring and control of appliance activity, energy auditing and management in buildings and surroundings and the generation of energy awareness.

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) plays a key role in enabling energy-saving systems in buildings and surrounding spaces by providing a reliable, cost-effective and extensible solution that can be placed in existing as well as new structures and be controlled via the Internet. In fact, WSNs allow the monitoring of the energy consumption in near-real time and, as such, they are an essential tool in the control loop that will be used in future structures for the generation and usage of diverse types of energy.

Following the success of the past edition of the workshop, BuildSys 2010 focuses on the intersection between WSNs and energy in buildings by merging experts in the WSN domain and experts in the Building/Energy community in order to identify innovative solutions which achieve the broad goal of energy-reduction.

The workshop welcomes sensor network-based techniques and applications that can clearly demonstrate how to:

* Increase energy awareness and reduce consumption by leveraging on sensing systems/social networking/mobile phones, novel visualization and other forms of media to convey relevant information to users;

* Systems that can influence a change of building occupant behaviour towards a more parsimonious usage of electricity, gas, heating, water, etc.;

* Monitor and actuate appliances in residential and industrial settings (e.g. data centre, HVAC, etc.)

* Monitor and control of alternative energy sources aiming at an increase of production efficacy;

* Model and simulate heating cooling lighting, ventilation, water usage and other energy flows in buildings and surrounding spaces through the combination of real data from sensors and popular energy simulation tools such as Energy Plus and TrnSys;

* Create innovative tools to model and visualize energy expenditure and production (from, e.g., solar panels, wind turbines);

* Integrate sensor-based systems to improve grid operation and energy distribution (electricity, gas, water);

Particular emphasis will also be given to:

* Real evaluation of energy-saving techniques and case studies that demonstrate a decrease of energy expenditure in real scenarios;

* Design of innovative architectures that are capable of reducing energy consumption and improve energy use efficiency;

* Accurate case studies and issues experienced current energy systems and how sensor networks can improve the state of the art in building energy management;

* Sensor systems for the identification of appliances in industrial and home environments, which can be used to estimate the energy usage/production model and to predict future demands;

* Innovative Sensor Network-assisted building monitoring systems (BMS);

* Integration of WSNs and wired sensor systems (e.g., Powerline, exing BMS) for the energy management in buildings.

Technically co-sponsored by ACM[1]. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. The Proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

[1] Approval from ACM is pending.

General Chair

* Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland

Steering Committee

* Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden

* Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin, Ireland

* David Culler, University of Berkeley, US

* Michele Rossi, Universita’ di Padova, Italy

Publication Chair

* Rasit Eskicioglu, University of Manitoba, Canada

Local Arrangement Chair

* Philipp Sommer, ETH, Switzerland

TPC Chairs

* Alberto Cerpa, UC Merced, US

* Dirk Pesch, CIT, IE

TPC Members

Wireless Sensor Networks background

* Adam Dunkels, (SICS, SE)

* Anthony Schoofs, (UCD, IE)

* Cormac Sreenan, (UCC, IE)

* David Culler,(UC Berkeley, US)

* Kamin Whitehouse, (Virginia University, US)

* Mani Srivastava, (UCLA, US)

* Prabal Dutta, (University of Michigan, US)

* Roger Wattenhofer, (ETH, CH)

* Tommaso Melodia, (SUNY Buffalo, US)

Energy and Buildings background

* Alain Zarli, (CSTB, FR)

* Dietrich Schmidt, (Fraunhofer institute, GE)

* Francis Rubinstein, (LBNL, US)

* Peter Fuhrmann, (Philips research, GE)

* Guy Newsham (National Research Council, CA)

* José J. de las Heras, (Acciona research, SP)

* Marcus Keane, (NUI, IE)

* Martijn Bennebroek, (Philips Research, NL)

* Paul Bertrand, (Watteco Technologies)

* Sandra Scalari, (ENEL research, IT)

* Xiaofan Jiang, (UC Berkeley, US)