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Long Term WSN Monitoring for Energy Efficiency in EU Cultural Heritage Buildings

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Historic buildings are a distinctive and invaluable characteristic of numerous European cities, and living symbols of Europe’s rich cultural heritage. However, today, EU cultural heritage buildings are contributing huge percentage to the greenhouse gas emissions. This has led to the increasing of wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments aimed at monitoring and improving the energy efficiency of these historic buildings. In this chapter we show a long term, low cost, passive distributed environmental monitoring system that promotes energy-efficient retrofitting in historic buildings. We focus on the design and implementation of an innovative technological framework, and on the hardware and software development of the solution. The presented system provides real-time feedback for the civil engineers for prompt intervention via remote interfaces.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the projects 3ENCULT and GreenDataNet, both funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme. In addition, the authors would like to thank WISPES srl for the implementation of the prototypes

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  1. Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Femi Aderohunmu

  2. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DEI), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Domenico Balsamo & Giacomo Paci

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering (DII), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, Trento, Italy

    Davide Brunelli

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  1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Koen Langendoen

  2. Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), CSIRO ICT Centre, Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia

    Wen Hu

  3. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Federico Ferrari

  4. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marco Zimmerling

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Aderohunmu, F., Balsamo, D., Paci, G., Brunelli, D. (2014). Long Term WSN Monitoring for Energy Efficiency in EU Cultural Heritage Buildings. In: Langendoen, K., Hu, W., Ferrari, F., Zimmerling, M., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03071-5_25

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