OVERVIEW OF AUTOMATION IN BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The increase population and the continued exploitation of fuel resources to meet the needs of development of economic and social over the past decades have led us to face with exhaustion of fossil fuel resources and many environment impacts. The building is a major consumer of energy, 40% proportion of global energy consumption. In the sustainable energy development, buildings are an essential objects to be researched. The revolution 4.0 brings us solutions to easily solve the energy problem in buildings. The aim of this report is about an overview about automation technologies in building energy management. The topics in this report included a summary of the energy context, the typical architecture of the energy management system, analysed some case studies, and discussed about the role of technology in improving performance and reducing energy consumption in buildings. Finally, we evaluated trends of this field in the future.