1. COMOB: A MATLAB toolbox for sensor placement and contaminant event monitoring in multi-zone buildings
- Author
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Kyriacou, Alexis, Michaelides, Michalis P., Eliades, Demetrios G., Panayiotou, Christos G., Polycarpou, Marios M., Polycarpou, Marios M. [0000-0001-6495-9171], Panayiotou, Christos G. [0000-0002-6476-9025], Kyriacou, Alexis [0000-0003-4815-2989], and Eliades, Demetrios G. [0000-0001-6184-6366]
- Subjects
Event monitoring ,Environmental Engineering ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Real-time computing ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Building model ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Building environment ,01 natural sciences ,Modularity ,Multi-zone buildings ,Indoor air quality ,021108 energy ,Matlab toolbox ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,Event (computing) ,Building and Construction ,Detection and isolation ,Sensor placement ,Toolbox ,13. Climate action ,Multiple scenarios ,Contaminant event monitoring - Abstract
The monitoring of the indoor air quality against the presence of contaminant sources is of paramount importance since it directly influences the occupants’ comfort, productivity, health and safety. Various approaches exist in the literature for monitoring and controlling the building environment. However, there is an identified lack of automated tools for evaluating, testing and comparing such approaches. This paper presents COMOB (COntaminat MOnitoring in Buildings), a developed MATLAB toolbox for sensor placement and contaminant monitoring in buildings. Specifically, the COMOB toolbox realizes an offline sensor placement procedure for positioning the contaminant sensors inside the building, such that the harmful effects due to a possible airborne contaminant event are minimized. In addition, an online contaminant monitoring approach is also implemented for detecting and isolating contaminant events in the building interior. Besides the aforementioned algorithms, the modularity of the COMOB toolbox facilitates the implementationof various other algorithms related to air-quality monitoring in buildings. In particular, the COMOB toolbox is able to generate multiple airflow and contaminant concentration data-sets by varying the building parameters; thus enabling the comprehensive and systematic evaluation and testing of the developed algorithms. Finally, the functionalities of the COMOB toolbox are demonstrated through a case-study corresponding to a real building model. COMOB is released under an open-source license, and is available at https://github.com/KIOS-Research/COMOB-Toolbox.
- Published
- 2019