VIETNAMESE - GERMAN UNIVERSITY

Course: Smart Building

Dr.-Ing. Nguyen Van Binh
Email: nvbinh@hcmiu.edu.vn HCMC, August 2022
 Content

1. Introduction to intelligent buildings

2. Building automation systems
3. BAS communication standards
4. Characteristics of sensor
5. Control of air- conditioning systems
6. Control of central chilling systems
7. Lighting- control systems
8. Security and safety control systems

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 References

• Shengwei Wang, Intelligent Buildings

and Building Automation, Spon Press,
2010

• O.V. Gnana Swathika, K. Karthikeyan, and

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Smart
Buildings Digitalization, CRC Press, 2022

• John T. Wen, Sandipan Mishra,

Intelligent Building Control Systems,
Springer, 2018

• Hermann Merz, Thomas Hansemann,

Christof Hübner, Building Automation,
Springer, 2007

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 Course information

Type Details Unit

Module title Smart Building

Module code 61ECE305

Semester Winter Semester

Classification Compulsory

Credits 5 ETC

Lecture contact hours 45 AHs

Lab contact hours 15 Ahs

Group project 40 %

Exams 60 %

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.1 Introduction
Commercial Facility Primary Energy Use Splits

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.1 Introduction
Why do people want with the building?

• Buildings consume energy

• Heating, Vnetilation, and Air Condition are typically

the highest consumption (34%)

• When utilized correctly, the energy/cost can be

reduced dramatically.

• Improve comfort & air quality

• Lower maintenance costs and downtime

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.2 Definitions
Performance-based definitions

• Building performance

• Demand of user

• Energy and environmental performances

• An intelligent building should also adapt itself quickly in

response to internal and external conditions, and to meet
the changing demands of users.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.2 Definitions
Services- based definitions

• Serving as a locus for receiving and transmitting information

and supporting efficient management

• Ensuring satisfaction and convenience of persons working

inside;

• Rationalization of building management to provide more

attractive administrative services at lower cost;

• Fast, flexible and economical responses to the changing

sociological environment, diverse and complex working
demands and active business strategies.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.2 Definitions
System- based definitions

• Building automation,

• Office automation

• Communication network systems

• Optimal composition integrates the structure, system,

service and management

• Providing the building with high efficiency, comfort,

convenience and safety to users.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.2 Definitions
How to make a building intelligent in reality

• A building fully equipped with technology systems might not be

intelligent in reality if the systems cannot be coordinated or they do not
function properly.

• Intelligent buildings cannot exist without involving technology systems,

especially information technology (IT) systems.

• The system functions should be appropriately customized to meet user

requirements and to provide the expected performance of intelligent
buildings.

• Technology systems, including their integration and interoperation,

should be properly commissioned and maintained to ensure they
function as expected.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.3 Intelligent architecture and structure
Intelligent architecture
• Intelligent design: requires that the building design responds to
humanistic, cultural and contextual issues

• Appropriate use of intelligent technology: with an intelligent built form

that responds to the inherent cultural preferences of the occupants is a
central theme in intelligent architecture.

• Intelligent use and maintenance of buildings: fundamentally simple to

operate, be energy and resource efficient, and easy to maintain, upgrade,
modify and recycle.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.3 Intelligent architecture and structure
Intelligent and responsive building façades
• be centrally controlled while still providing the occupant with the ability
to manually override the system;

• change their thermophysical properties such as thermal resistance,

transmittance, absorptance, permeability, etc;

• modify their interior and exterior colour and/or texture;

• function as communicating media façades with video and voice

capabilities;

• change optical properties and allow the creation of patterned glazing,

providing the opportunity for dynamic shading and remote light control.

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 1 Introduction to intelligent buildings
1.4 Technology systems and evolution of intelligent
buildings

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