Author : Arpita A. Shete and J.G Rana

Intelligent buildings prominently aims to reduce energy consumption – both the embodied energy required to extract, process, transport and install building materials and operating energy to provide services such as lighting, heating and power for equipment. Integration of Digital Addressable Lighting Interface(DALI ) devices with wireless sensor networks is focused in this paper for encouraging the Smart building concept. Heating ventilation and air conditioning, lighting control , different kinds of alarms ,etc. are aspects of building automation. Building automation (BA) system(BAS) is developed for monitoring and control of building services. The need of centralized monitoring control centre makes necessary the integration of all BA applications. DALI is considered as stepping stone for more complete and more capable building equipment automation system. This paper is focused on prototype used in wireless sensor network(WSN) which integrates DALI protocol. Main purpose is to give end consumer with an economical fully centralized system in which home appliances are managed by IEEE802.15.4 based on WSN. So initial investment, maintenance and energy consumption cost are considered.

Keywords: DALI, BAS, WSN, Lighting Automation, IEEE802.15.4, Wireless ZIGBEE.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.1 (Feb-2015)