PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS

Abstract

This report is based on progress in Technology to be applied in Buildings. The present study encompasses the Intelligent Buildings (IBs) and their performance with an aim to come across the various problems associated with the work place in a conventional building and to estimate the efficiency of IBs that are coming up in our country. Efficiency of IBs are very much depended on how good they are in power savings and improving the efficiency of occupants and their quality of living. The prime motive behind this thesis is to discover the IBs in India, to suggest a better alternative or some enhancement in the currently employed technology, which may effect in privileged returns. The Building Management System (BMS), a central controlling facility optimizes the working of an IB by coordinating the various systems in it, such as security and life safety systems, mechanical and lighting systems and taking control over them. The various definitions on IB elucidating on BMS and its benefits presents a new interpretation to IB and an overall picture on it. Today's technology to control the day-light and heat coming inside the building with the usage of smart glass which neither requires a curtain nor window blinds and one of the successful means to bring the natural light into the interiors of the building by piping in the solar light is a representation of the technology advance in buildings across the world along with many other benefits. Then a state of the art review on smart materials, an emerging area of researches has been attempted. Their application in sensing the defects and even to repair themselves in civil engineering structures will make a new revolution in the concept of IBs. The BMS essentially a computer controlled unit which operates and monitors the various building services is the core from which other devices are being controlled from it. The network between the sensors, various electrical and mechanical devices, and the BMS is given away as a diagram. It's also depicted; how the BMS performs its tasks through the various systems. Eventually the practical benefits of IB and the present status of IBs in India are covered. The energy expense and energy savings of IB in comparison with that of a conventional building presents graphically, the efficiency of such buildings in reducing energy consumption. Moreover, the necessity for improving the IB concept in India in accordance with the survey of such buildings, to bring more work productivity and energy efficiency also has been covered.