Monitoring

An intranet with PCs will be used for education and information purposes in order to present to students and visitors of the library the energy conservation and environmental systems used in the building and their operation. Most of the systems installed in the building will be controlled by a Building Management system (BMS).
The BMS serves 3 distinct purposes:

• Control HVAC, lighting, passive cooling, RES and other systems installed in the building, optimizing their performance.

• Collect system operation and energy consumption/production data for analysis and evaluation.

• Demonstrate the usefulness of the system itself, as well as the entire energy conscious design of the building.

It will be connected via LAN (Ethernet) to the computer system in the library, to be used for demonstration and teaching purposes.It is planned to conduct a user survey among the library members in order to collect their opinion on comfort levels before and after renovation. Results will be evaluated in comparison to the monitoring data collected.