[Legacy Report] SMCS and CSS Chapters Seminar on Controlling the Internet of Things - from Energy Saving to Fast Evacuation in Smart Buildings
IEEE North Jersey Section/SMCS and CSS Chapters
Controlling the Internet of Things - from Energy Saving to Fast Evacuation in Smart Buildings
(Samuel) Qing-Shan Jia. Ph.D. & Associate Professor
Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems and Department of Automation
Tsinghua University, Beijing China
Location: ECEC 202, NJIT, 140 Warren Street, Newark, NJ
Time: 11am, April 13, 2016, Wed.
Abstract: There is an increasing interest in connecting things into network (known as the Internet of Things) to improve the performance and to provide novel services. Control has a big role here not just to help connecting things together, but also to make things “smarter”. In this talk, we will focus on a particular type of Internet of Things, namely the smart buildings. There is an increasing demand on energy efficiency, comfort, and safety in buildings. It is possible to achieve these different and sometimes conflicting objectives in the same time. Occupant-oriented wireless sensor network plays a key role, which collects information on the demand (what the occupant wants), the supply (what the building can offer), and how the two parts may coordinate with each other (the elasticity of the demand and the supply). We will briefly review the state of the art and the state of practice in this field. In particular, we will see how to control this Internet of Things to achieve energy saving and fast evacuation in smart buildings.
Speaker:
(Samuel) Qing-Shan Jia received the B.E. degree in automation in July 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering in July 2006, both from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an Associate Professor in the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. He was a postdoc at Harvard University in 2006, a visiting assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010, and a visiting associate professor at Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. His research interest is to develop theory and methodology for design and optimization of large-scale complex systems through data-driven, statistical, and computational analysis with applications to energy systems, manufacturing systems, building systems, evacuation guidance systems, biological systems, cyber physical systems, and Internet of Things. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems – Theory and Applications. He was the Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee chair in IEEE Control Systems Society from 2012 to 2015. He now serves the Control for Smart Cities Technical Committee chair in IFAC, the Smart Buildings Technical Committee co-chair in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the Beijing Chapter Chair of IEEE Control Systems Society.
Contact: Prof. Mengchu Zhou at zhou@njit.edu if any question. ECE 202 is located at the intersection between warren St. and Summit St., Newark, NJ 07102.
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