Temperature Sensor Feasibility Study of Wireless Sensor Network Applications for Heating Efficiency Maintenance in High-Rise Apartment Buildings

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences 2015
Benita Freliha, Kaspars Kondratjevs, Nadežda Kuņicina, Anatolijs Zabašta

Cities are responsible for 60%-80% of the world's energy use and for approximately the same percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. The existing multi-apartment buildings of multifamily housing sector are often energy inefficient, and the heating system does not ensure optimization of heat distribution of individual apartments. Heat distribution, heating system balancing, heat loss detection and calculation, individual heat energy accounting are difficult tasks to accomplish. This article deals with the temperature monitoring system designed to retrieve temperature differences necessary for overall building heat monitoring and individual apartment monitoring. The sensor testing case study process and its measurements are analysed.

Keywords
individual heat consumption | sensors | temperature measurements | wireless sensor networks.
DOI
10.1515/lpts-2015-0016
Hyperlink
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lpts.2015.52.issue-3/lpts-2015-0016/lpts-2015-0016.xml?format=INT

Freliha, B., Kondratjevs, K., Kuņicina, N., Zabašta, A. Temperature Sensor Feasibility Study of Wireless Sensor Network Applications for Heating Efficiency Maintenance in High-Rise Apartment Buildings. Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences, 2015, Vol.52, Iss.3, pp.34-43. ISSN 0868-8257. Available from: doi:10.1515/lpts-2015-0016

Publication language
English (en)