Innovative Approach in cyber physical system for smart building efficiency monitoring

Innovative technologies and comfort-energy efficiency measures are nowadays well known and widely spread, and the main issue is to identify those that will be proven to be the more effective and reliable in the long term. With such a variety of proposed measures, the decision-maker has to compensate environmental, energy, financial and social factors to reach the best possible solution that will ensure the maximization of the comfort and energy efficiency of smart buildings satisfying at the same time the building's final user/occupant/owner needs. A work-in-progress methodological position investigates the feasibility of applying new techniques to improve the comfort and energy efficiency in smart buildings so that the maximum possible number of alternative solutions and energy efficiency measures may be considered. A simple example is used to identify the potential strengths and weaknesses of the proposed approach and highlight potential problems that may arise.