Communication and control protocols in an energy management system
Niemi, Eelis (2025)
2025
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025060621212
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025060621212
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The goal of the thesis was to design and test a system to enable communication between devices for the purposes of a building-level energy management system.
The topic for the thesis was given by the commissioner, New Energy Research Center, which is an internal research group of Turku University of Applied Sciences. The work was carried out as part of a large project, focusing on energy management systems and smart buildings. In this project, the commissioner has a real-world pilot site, where the energy management system is to be implemented with the devices installed at the site.
First, the requirements were listed, including the supported communication protocols of the devices and their feasibility in the context of the full system. Architecture of the system transferring commands and data between the building and a central unit of the system was designed, and a simplified test setup was created at the pilot site.
As a result, a tested, functional design of the communication can be used as a basis for further development within the project. Design objectives of the system also included modularity and re-usability of the components so that the same architecture and software blocks could be used in different implementations of similar systems.
The topic for the thesis was given by the commissioner, New Energy Research Center, which is an internal research group of Turku University of Applied Sciences. The work was carried out as part of a large project, focusing on energy management systems and smart buildings. In this project, the commissioner has a real-world pilot site, where the energy management system is to be implemented with the devices installed at the site.
First, the requirements were listed, including the supported communication protocols of the devices and their feasibility in the context of the full system. Architecture of the system transferring commands and data between the building and a central unit of the system was designed, and a simplified test setup was created at the pilot site.
As a result, a tested, functional design of the communication can be used as a basis for further development within the project. Design objectives of the system also included modularity and re-usability of the components so that the same architecture and software blocks could be used in different implementations of similar systems.