Course detail

Inteligent Buildings

FSI-IIB Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester

The course focuses on the issues of measurement, automation and control in buildings, ventilation and air conditioning. Attention is paid to individual parts of the control circuit. Students are acquainted with sensors and measuring technology, controllers and actuators used to regulate temperature, humidity, heating, ventilation and air conditioning of buildings. The course is focused on technology from simple controllers to modern integrated building automation systems.

 

The teaching style is blended learning, i.e. a combination of classical teaching approach with the use of online tools.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Mauder, Ph.D.

Department

Energy Institute

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge from physics and mathematics, introduction from theory automatic control, basic knowledge of problems of heating and ventilation in buildings

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Unit credit: participation in laboratory exercises and presentation of work results. Exam: practical exam and written test of the all topisc in the subject. 


An absence  in laboratory exercises is compensated by solving individual assignments.

Aims

Students will gain an overview of methods and tools for measuring, automation and control of basic parameters in environmental engineering. Furthermore, the practical application of measurement and data processing, including evaluation in computer software.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
specialization CLS: , elective

Programme N-ETI-P: Power and Thermo-fluid Engineering, Master's
specialization TEP: Environmental Engineering, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction, the importance of automation, basic concepts

  2. Fundamentals of integrated building automation systems, intelligent building, IoT

  3. Measuring techniques, measurement of basic parameters in environmental engineering

  4. Signal processing, filtering and data evaluation

  5. Control circuit, feedback, system architecture, automation

  6. Types of regulation and types of regulators (PID, FUZZY, MPC)

  7. Regulation in MATLAB environment

  8. Expert systems and neural networks

  9. Central unit, types of communication protocols, smart appliances and energy saving

  10. Examples of implementation of intelligent building systems

Laboratory exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to the modular MaC system and its assembly

  2. Measurement of basic parameters in environmental engineering

  3. Control of actuators and assembly of control circuits

  4. Feedback regulation

  5. Visualization and data processing from the MaC system