A Programmable Data-Driven Testbed for Sustainable Buildings Research

This project developed a programmable data-driven testbed to enable a range of research and education activities focused on sustainable smart buildings. Our testbed is comprised of two components: a data collection component based on a large number of real instrumented buildings of various types to gather anonymous fine-grained energy usage and operational data at scale; and a programmable smart building component that uses programmable power sources and electrical loads to enable the evaluation of a variety of energy management mechanism. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1405826, and has supported the infrastructure requirements of a wide range of our research.