The document outlines the agenda and presentations for a Wireless Building Automation demonstration at Vooruit. The agenda includes general presentations on WBA and demonstrations of managing video surveillance over a wireless mesh network, intelligent video transmission and control, SANET use cases, indoor positioning, and SANET network solutions. The document also provides details on WBA, including its architecture, applications to building management systems, and research partners.

1. Wireless Building Automation
Demonstration@Vooruit

2. Agenda
§ 13:30 Onthaal
§ 14:00 Algemene presentatie WBA
§ 14:45 Demonstraties
§ Demo 1: Managing video surveillance over a wireless meshed
network
§ Demo 2: Intelligent video transmission & control
§ Demo 3: SANET use cases
§ Demo 4: Indoor positioning
§ Demo 5: SANET network solutions
§ 16:00 Receptie @ Vooruit Kafee
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3. Agemene Presentatie WBA
§ Use case @ Vooruit
§ Wouter Vermeylen (Vooruit) - partner & user
§ Introduction WBA project
§ Guido Impens (OneAccess) - project leader
§ WBA architecture & solutions
§ Ingrid Moerman (IBBT-UGent-IBCN) - research leader
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4. Vooruit: Building Management System
2001
- HVAC
- lighting (PLC)
- emergency lighting
- fire station
- reels & sprinklers
- call centre
- electricity grid (80 panels)
- emergency power supply
- 75 electronically monitored doors
- emergency exits
- entrance, back office & backstage control
- camera surveillance
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5. Vooruit: Building Management System
8 parallel wired networks
8 different languages
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6. Wireless Building Automation
§ 1 communication language
§ Wireless network
§ Benefits:
§ No wires (enlisted monuments)
§ Easy installation
§ Temporary locations
§ Reduces TCO
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7. Wireless Mesh Network
No Wires!
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8. Temporary locations
Festivals, expo’s
Easy installation!
Offices
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9. Camera Surveillance
Easy-installation
Intelligent camera’s
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10. Positioning
§ Location-based services
§ PDA-based museum guides
§ building navigation
§ Localizing valuable/critical assets
§ medical devices, expensive equipment, etc
§ Localizing and tracking critical personnel
§ fire-fighters, medical personnel, etc
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11. Wireless Building Automation (WBA)
§ IBBT research partners
§ UGent-IBCN § KULeuven-ICRI
§ UGent-MMLab § VUB-ETRO
§ UA-PATS § IMEC
§ KULeuven-COSIC
§ Industrial partners
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12. Wireless Building Automation (WBA)
§ Some statistics
§ # partners: 13 (à 14)
§ Manpower effort: 562 MM (ca. 47 MY)
§ Budget: 5000 k€
§ Duration: 2 years (17/06/05 -16/06/07)
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13. Wireless Building Automation (WBA)
§ Target
§ to develop advanced building automation techniques in order to
deploy building management systems, hereby:
§ avoiding as much as possible costly and inflexible cable infrastructures
§ covering hard to reach locations such as protected monuments
§ Building Management System (BMS)
§ monitor & control of
§ Low data rate applications
§ HVAC control
§ (emergency) lighting
§ access control
§ motion detection
§ fire detection
§ High data rate applications
§ camera surveillance
§ public address (video
display, audio)
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14. WBA network architecture
Wireless LAN
(WLAN)
MOTION
Legend
WLAN gateway
SANET gateway
Wireless Mesh router
Gigabit IP BB / WMN
gateway
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15. WBA system architecture
Request for connection
Feedback
Optimized routing routing
information information
Alter
Network status characteristics
(channel,
power,...)
Send / receive network
protocol information
Alter data
Read / Write device settings
characteristics
Alter data characteristics
Alter data characteristics
BMS: Building Management System
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16. WBA system architecture: Sensor & Actuator NETwork
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Motion
Connection & detection
device Request for connection
Actions
management Emergency
Setup / tear down / self-organizing
Feedback detection
update connection
BMS self-healing Positioning
low power consumption Administrator
scalable Other
triggers
secure
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network monitoring Network status SANET WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
Send / receive network
protocol information
End Alter data Sensors
Read / Write device settings High data rate
device Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
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17. WBA system architecture: Wireless Mesh Network
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Connection & wireless Ethernet Motion
detection
device self-organizingfor connection
Request
Actions
management Emergency
Feedback
Setup / tear down / auto-recovery detection
update connection
BMS high end-to-end throughput Positioning
QoS (bandwidth reservations) Administrator
Other
secure triggers
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network monitoring Network status SANET WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
Send / receive network
protocol information
End Alter data Sensors
Read / Write device settings High data rate
device Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
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18. WBA system architecture: connection management
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Motion
Connection &
device
request for connection
Request for connection
detection
Actions
management Emergency
Setup / tear down /
Feedback detection
update connection
BMS set up / tear down / update Positioning
Administrator
of connections over WMN Other
triggers
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network monitoring Network status SANET WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
Send / receive network
protocol information
End Alter data Sensors High data rate
device Device device settings
Read / Write settings Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
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19. WBA system architecture: intelligent wireless video surveillance (1)
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Motion
Connection & detection
device Request for connection
Actions
management Emergency
Setup / tear down /
Feedback detection
update connection
BMS Positioning
Administrator
Other
triggers
Energy-aware scheduler in WLAN AP
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network monitoring Network status SANET WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
Send / receive network
protocol information
configuration of radio parameters
End Alter data Sensors
Read / Write device settings High data rate
device Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
configuration of video parameters
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20. WBA system architecture: intelligent wireless video surveillance (2)
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Motion
Connection & detection
device Request for connection
Actions
management Emergency
Setup / tear down /
Feedback detection
update connection
BMS Positioning
Administrator
Other
triggers
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network motion detectionSANET the compressed video domain
monitoring Network status in WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
transcoding
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
bit rate adaptation / receive network
Send
resolution scalingprotocol information
error resilient video coding
End Alter data Sensors
Read / Write device settings High data rate
device Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
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21. WBA system architecture: Positioning
Central management plane Control plane Data plane
Motion
Connection & detection
device Request for connection
Actions
management Emergency
Setup / tear down /
Feedback detection
update connection
BMS Position estimation algorithm Positioning
Administrator
Other
triggers
RSSI measurements RSSI measurement forwarding
Network
management Wired gigabit backbone Wired gigabit backbone
S W A
Element Optimized routing Wireless Mesh routing S W A
management information Distributed
network information Wireless Mesh
S A
network control Alter network
Network
Network monitoring Network status SANET WLAN characteristics S A
(channel,
Capacity flow power,...) SANET WLAN
management
…
Send / receive network
protocol information
End Alter data Sensors
Read / Write device settings High data rate
device Device characteristics Actuators Devices
control
Alter data characteristics Cameras
S W A Intelligent
Control traffic Data SANET Wired/Wireless Wireless video control Alter data characteristics
traffic gateway gateway access point
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22. Other applications …
§ Automation of
§ hospitals
§ airports
§ car parks
§ temporary events
§ festivals
§ exhibitions
§ trade shows
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23. WBA demonstration
§ WBA = one complete, integrated Wireless Building Automation
system
§ Demonstrations
§ Demo 1:Managing video surveillance over a wireless mesh
network
§ Demo 2:Intelligent video transmission & control
§ Demo 3:SANET use cases
§ Demo 4:Indoor positioning
§ Demo 5:SANET network solutions
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