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Buildings have an untapped efficiency potential, being, on many occasions, government buildings present the most significant potential for energy savings. With the help of building energy management systems, this potential can be exploited, but due to the high cost that represents the implementation of these systems are not used in many buildings. This article aims to present a low-cost building energy management system based on Internet of Things technologies that can help take advantage of the efficiency potential that buildings have. The system implemented in this investigation consisted of a monitoring system that monitored different variables in real-time such as temperature, humidity, air quality, luminous intensity, and energy consumption. This system was implemented in a government building in the Dominican Republic, where the results showed opportunities for improvement. Many of these opportunities for improvement were impossible to know before the system implementation because there was no practical way to monitor them.
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Ministerio de Trabajo (MT) of the Dominican Republic for allowing this case study to be carried out in one of its service areas, in addition to the complementary information on the selected area.
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Aybar-Mejía, M., Mariano-Hernández, D., Marte, J.C., Contreras, A., Arias, J. (2022). Integration of Internet of Things Technologies in Government Buildings Through Low-Cost Solutions. In: Nesmachnow, S., Hernández Callejo, L. (eds) Smart Cities. ICSC-Cities 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1555. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96753-6_22
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