Managing and re-building energy of existing buildings: diagnostic and characterization procedure energy from measured data

Abstract

One of the essential factors for energy management and rehabilitation of existing buildings is to establish a practical and efficient procedure, from distributed control and intelligent monitoring, trying to automate the process of operation, the status of the facilities, monitor critical variables and receive information on-line and off-line performance of them to ensure comfort conditions in a context of rational energy consumption.  All this takes form of the development of a new model for the prediction of the energetic consumption of buildings. This prediction is performed in two levels: schedule, with a model derived from the transfer functions applied to the building, and daily, with a simplified model from the previous one. The aim is to achieve energy-smart, efficient and above all through the progressive implementation of energy saving measures.