Night Setback/Setup System-Web Centric DDC Framework

摘要

Significant savings can be realized by implementing a night HVAC management program during the unoccupied time when the temperature in the facility is set below or above the normal comfort temperature for the heating and cooling months respectively. Conventional means of achieving this often proved to be non-functional due to a host of reasons like difficulty to program, inaccessibility of the system, lack of a user friendly interface, etc. The goal of this article is to develop a conceptual framework for a night setback/setup system leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to address some of the problems that current night setback systems face. This work describes a web-centric DDC system that can be easily programmed from any computer connected to the network using a combination of software and hardware components.