A Universal AI-Powered IoT Platform for Smart Buildings: Data-Driven Insights with Privacy Focus
Project overview
Despite the emergence of various intelligent solutions for the building sector, persistent economic issues and social concerns continue to pose challenges to the widespread deployment of smart building solutions.
The goal of this project is to develop intelligent building technology as a strong catalyst for increased energy efficiency in buildings. This research aims at tackling several technical challenges identified with industrial partners based on previous research and real-world experiences.
Key project details
| Principal investigator | Nizar Bouguila, professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University |
Co-principal investigators |
Abdessamad Ben Hamza, professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University; Manar Amayri, assistant professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University |
Research collaborators |
Ursula Eicker, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities and director of the Next-Generation Cities Institute, Concordia University; Maya Ezzeddine, sustainability leader, Digital Buildings, Schneider Electric; Youcef Chaoua, senior software engineering manager, Schneider Electric; Negar Ghourchian, VP Research & Development, Aerial Technologies |
| Non-academic partners | Schneider Electric, Aerial |
| Research Keywords | building efficiency, smart buildings, iot platform, data quality, explainable, machine learning, interactive learning, transfer learning, federated learning |
| Budget | Cash: $222,000 In-Kind: $382,000 |
Research focus
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Smart buildings, with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), can save energy and make the experience better for people inside. To make more efficient energy consumption AI can be used in energy management, personalized climate control, predictive maintenance and smart lighting.
Internet of Things (IoT)
One of the leading focuses of this project is on developing an Internet of things (IoT) platform that allows offering energy-saving related services. By deploying AI and IoT technologies a universal AI-powered IoT platform will be developed that aims to overcome the challenges posed by: the diversity of sensors, technologies and buildings characteristics; quality of collected data; complexity of data labelling; and privacy issues.
Non-academic partners
Thank you to our non-academic partners for your support and trust.
