<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Cities are responsible for 60%-80% of the world’s energy use and for approximately the same percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. The existing multi-apartment buildings of multifamily housing sector are often energy inefficient, and the heating system does not ensure optimization of heat distribution of individual apartments. Heat distribution, heating system balancing, heat loss detection and calculation, individual heat energy accounting are difficult tasks to accomplish. This article deals with the temperature monitoring system designed to retrieve temperature differences necessary for overall building heat monitoring and individual apartment monitoring. The sensor testing case study process and its measurements are analysed.</p></abstract>

Cities are responsible for 60%-80% of the world’s energy use and for approximately the same percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. The existing multi-apartment buildings of multifamily housing sector are often energy inefficient, and the heating system does not ensure optimization of heat distribution of individual apartments. Heat distribution, heating system balancing, heat loss detection and calculation, individual heat energy accounting are difficult tasks to accomplish. This article deals with the temperature monitoring system designed to retrieve temperature differences necessary for overall building heat monitoring and individual apartment monitoring. The sensor testing case study process and its measurements are analysed.

Temperature Sensor Feasibility Study of Wireless Sensor Network Applications for Heating Efficiency Maintenance in High-Rise Apartment Buildings

Kipsala-Zunds, Ltd, 15 Matrozu Str., Riga, LV-1048, LATVIA

Riga Technical University, Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering, Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 12-1 Azenes Str., office 503, Riga, LV-1048, LATVIA

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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Cities are responsible for 60%-80% of the world’s energy use and for approximately the same percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. The existing...

Temperature Sensor Feasibility Study of Wireless Sensor Network Applications for Heating Efficiency Maintenance in High-Rise Apartment Buildings

Data publikacji: 24 lip 2015

Zakres stron: 34 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2015-0016

Słowa kluczowe
sensors, individual heat consumption, temperature measurements, wireless sensor networks.

© by B. Freliha

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Temperature Sensor Feasibility Study of Wireless Sensor Network Applications for Heating Efficiency Maintenance in High-Rise Apartment Buildings

Data publikacji: 24 lip 2015

Zakres stron: 34 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2015-0016

Słowa kluczowesensors, individual heat consumption, temperature measurements, wireless sensor networks.

© by B. Freliha

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
sensors, individual heat consumption, temperature measurements, wireless sensor networks.