Location
Description
The demonstration site of the ENTROPY project in Murcia (Spain) is the campus of The University of Murcia (UMU), one of the biggest universities of Spain. UMU is located in the Region of Murcia, with over 439,712 inhabitants, and it has a population of 40,000 people: students, services personnel, etc with three main campuses and several facilities deployed throughout different cities.
UMU has been involved in energy efficiency goals for several years. The initial motivation was to connect each appliance to a common platform which was independent on a private manufacturer, with the main goal of the tele-maintenance of the infrastructures of seven buildings distributed in the Espinardo Campus. Nowadays, the number of buildings monitored and the automated services provided by these has increased quickly. Specifically, the number of facilities connected to the UMU Building Management System is about 30.
Energy and smart metering related infrastructures
The UMU Building Management System is based on the platform called Open Data, a multi-user SCADA-based web technology that centralizes all sensor information and carries out the intelligent programmed actions. The connection among the different buildings of the university and the platform is done through IP-based connections. Depending on the technology of the manufacturer, these connections can be linked directly to a SCADA or by means of an IP gateway called IPex16. The installation of the IPex16 control units in the different electrical cabinets of a building enables to manage easily the infrastructure of this facility. The SCADA web provides a database where are stored all monitored and available data about the different automated buildings.
Currently, the UMU facilities have a set of controllers installed in different buildings to connect sensors, actuators and non-IP Control Unit to the control network of the Open Data platform. The kind of collected data is related with environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity and lighting, there are multiple presence sensors installed in strategic building points as well as an access control system based on RFID for each monitored building. There are energy meters measuring the real consumption due to HVAC and lighting systems, etc. In this direction, the main actions carried out by the Open Data platform are related with systems regulation to provide efficient services of security, energy efficiency, comfort provisioning, etc. to the university community.
Among the different buildings connected to the Open Data platform, the ENTROPY project focuses on three buildings: the chemistry faculty building, the veterinary faculty building and the Pleiades R&D Building. These facilities have the highest sensor and actuator deployment, thus we will be able to provide a more complete picture of the performance of the different services provided.
The different services that Open Data is able to offer are:
- Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Management:
- Indoor Lighting System Management
- Outdoor Lighting System Management
- Environmental conditions monitoring
- Water Management
- Energy Consumption Monitoring
- Management of alarm system
- Management of fire detection
- Electrical devices Management
- Building Access Control
- Monitoring of Energy production
- Building Maintenance