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Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory: Hydronic System Design

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Author(s)

Amanda J. Pertzborn

Abstract

Achieving national goals of net zero energy buildings requires substantial reduction in the energy consumption of commercial building systems. In 2015, commercial buildings consumed 18 % of the total energy consumed in the U.S. [1]. Although significant progress has been made in the integration of building control systems through the development of standard communication protocols, such as BACnet and BACnet/IP, little progress has been made in making them “intelligent” about optimizing building system-level performance. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the potential for distributed, intelligent software agents to perform this optimization and to develop a research infrastructure suitable for development and testing of advanced agent-based optimization techniques that can improve the energy and comfort performance of building systems. Towards that goal, the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) has been constructed to act as a testbed for these intelligent control algorithms. This note describes the design of a portion of that facility.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 1933
Report Number
1933

Citation

Pertzborn, A. (2016), Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory: Hydronic System Design, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1933 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created September 29, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018