Enabling intelligent wireless sensor networks for passive house

Abstract

The focus of this work lies on the use of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology as an enabling tool to monitor and contribute to human comfort and energy efficiency for the Passive House (PH). Passive House massively reduce energy consumption for central heating system by being more airtight and utilising an advance insulation, triple glazed windows and a myriad of other low energy building approaches. WSNs are used as cooperative smart objects that closely monitor living spaces thermal comfort and energy consumption, manipulating appropriate Environmental Factors and Physiological Factors towards improving human comfort without sacrificing energy needs of a Passive House. The sensors work as one to sense the environmental parameters, embedded with distributed computational engine, react to the requirement for human comfort and energy requirement of a Passive House via energy control equipments and actuators.