@article{34229,
  keywords = {China, buildings},
  author = {Ming Jin and Ruoxi Jia and Hari Prasanna Das and Wei Feng and Costas Spanos},
  title = {BISCUIT: Building Intelligent System Customer Investment Tools},
  abstract = {<p>Smart buildings as human-cyber-physical systems (h-CPSs) are capable of providing intelligent services, such as indoor positioning, personalized lighting, demand-based heating ventilation and air-conditioning, and automatic fault detection and recovery, just to name a few. However, most buildings nowadays lack the basic components and infrastructure to support such services. The investment decision of intelligent system design and retrofit can be a daunting task, because it involves both hardware (sensors, actuators, servers) and software (operating systems, service algorithms), which have issues of compatibility, functionality constraints, and opportunities of co-design of synergy. This work proposes a user-oriented investment decision toolset aimed at handling the complexity of exploration in the large design space and to enhance cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, and human-centric values. The toolset is demonstrated in a case study to retrofit a medium-sized building, where it is shown to propose a design that significantly lowers the overall investment cost while achieving user specifications.</p>},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Energy Procedia},
  volume = {158},
  pages = {6152 - 6157},
  month = {01/2019},
  issn = {18766102},
  doi = {10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.495},
  language = {eng},
}