EMS@CNR: An Energy monitoring sensor network infrastructure for in-building location-based services

Abstract

The increasing demand for building services and comfort levels, together with the rise in time spent inside buildings, assure an upward trend in energy demand for the future. In this paper we present a long term energy monitoring system called EMS@CNR that is able to measure the energy consumed by end users in office environments. The system has been tested monitoring the power consumption of a testbed room of the CNR research area in Pisa. The proposed infrastructure stands as an enabling technology for future in-building location-based services. As preliminary results we showed the potentiality of EMS@CNR in long term monitoring of the user working behaviors.