Occupant-Centric Federated Cyber-Physical System for Building Management

Multiple operations inside the building, e.g. HVAC, elevators, fire system and access control, are managed by diverse systems, each providing centralized management and inflexible ways for external interaction. Limited interactions across these systems also limit the occupant experience towards personalized control, ability to selectively share data and control access and build custom applications that can integrate these systems to provide a holistic experience. This research focuses on developing an open-source, federated cyber-physical system for building management. Proposed system will allow the occupants to create sharing and control policies to guard the sensors, actuators and suppress their data to preserve occupant’s privacy. We also propose to develop interfaces to external systems to support data integration and actuation based upon detailed analytics. Finally, we intend to develop and deploy low-cost sensing and control hardware for building management, using Commercial OffThe-Shelf (COTS) hardware, to demonstrate the diverse capabilities of the proposed system.