About the project
This project was led by Principal Investigators Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan and Dr David Scott. It was funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust Fund, £97,800).
This project focused on the application of Internet of Things (IoT) Technology and Building Energy Management System (BEMS) within the Marylebone Campus of the University of Westminster to improve the energy efficiency of the existing building, as well as enhance the learning experience on energy and sustainability.
60 IoT sensors connected to minicomputers were planned to deploy within three floors of the building to continuously measure the real time environmental parameters, such as, dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, illuminance level, CO2 and sound levels.
Experimental workshops were also arranged with undergraduate and post-graduate students at their classrooms using IoT sensors, portable Bluetooth sensors and online questionnaire to make them aware of the effect of changing the frequency of maneuvering window and personal thermal factors on energy saving through real-time visualisation. Users’ subjective feedbacks on their workplace were also collected through BUS questionnaire surveys.
The results show the effectiveness of IoT systems and BEMS in supplying the building users and management with high-resolution, low-cost data acquisition systems highlighting the existing challenges and future scopes. The study also documents the process and the improvement in students’ awareness of environmental and energy performance manifested in a higher satisfaction with the building than the staff counterpart.
ProBE team
- Principal Investigator Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan
- Principal Investigator Dr David Scott
- Co-Investigator Benson Lau
- Research Assistant Mohataz Hossein
- Research Assistant Zhenzhou Weng
Contact
For more information contact Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan at [email protected].
Featured project publications
Hossain, M., Weng, Z., Schiano-Phan, R., Scott, D., Lau B. (2020). Application of IoT and BEMS to Visualise the Environmental Performance of an Educational Building. Energies.13, 4009.