A High-Resolution Open Source Platform for Building Envelope Thermal Performance Assessment Using a Wireless Sensor Network
- Resource Type
- Authors
- George Goussetis; Yuan Ding; Romwald Lihakanga; Samuel Chapman; Gabriela M. Medero
- Source
- Sensors
Volume 20
Issue 6
Sensors, Vol 20, Iss 6, p 1755 (2020)
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Subject
- Open platform
Computer science
020209 energy
Real-time computing
0211 other engineering and technologies
Building material
02 engineering and technology
engineering.material
Track (rail transport)
lcsh:Chemical technology
Biochemistry
heat flow
Article
Analytical Chemistry
wireless sensor network
021105 building & construction
Thermal
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
lcsh:TP1-1185
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Wireless network
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Transmission (telecommunications)
engineering
open platform
thermal performance
Wireless sensor network
Building envelope
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
This paper presents an in-situ wireless sensor network (WSN) for building envelope thermal transmission analysis. The WSN is able to track heat flows in various weather conditions in real-time. The developed system focuses on long-term in-situ building material variation analysis, which cannot be readily achieved using current approaches, especially when the number of measurement hotspots is large. This paper describes the implementation of the proposed system using the heat flow method enabled through an adaptable and low-cost wireless network, validated via a laboratory experiment.