A DISTRIBUTED MONITORING METHOD FOR ACHIEVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

摘要

A pervasive and continuous distributed monitoring method for achieving energy efficiency in buildings and more in general in articulated complexes of buildings envisages the use of multisensor devices that have wireless-communication capacity, capacity for organization in mesh topologies, and capacity of on¬ board intelligence. These devices, appropriately located/distributed in the nodes of a wireless sensor network in the premises to be controlled, enable information to be obtained on the current state of the various premises of the building and of the energy- consuming systems operating therein in order to rationalize and optimize energy consumption. The corresponding apparatus envisages multi-sensor nodes, organized in a multilevel wireless sensor-network architecture, which is able both to exchange with one another the data gathered and locally pre-processed and forward them to a localized co-ordinator and control system.