Abstract
 SIMGIS: GIS for Thermal Simulations in the Built Environment Track: Climate, Weather and Atmosphere Author(s): Valeria Agnolotti, Christine Giger Building simulation programs perform thermal simulations in a stand-alone scenario and, therefore, the resulting building automation is unable to handle a broad scenario of environmental changes. Due to the time needed for a building to react properly to short-term sudden weather changes, standard building automation is not enough to control energy consumption and thermal comfort efficiently: the sensors placed on the external envelop of a building provide information about weather changes too short in advance about weather changes. A meteorological station can inform in advance a group of buildings in an area about weather changes, but is unable, unlike a GIS, to identify the buildings which are really interested in the phenomenon and to send the weather changes information only to those buildings. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) has developed a new methodology to optimize building thermal performances by utilizing GIS, simulation, on line meteorological data and building automation. Valeria Agnolotti Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry ETH Hönggerberg IGP HIL E 14.3 Zürich , Zürich 8093 CH Phone: 004116334652 E-mail: agnolotti@geod.baug.ethz.ch Christine Giger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry ETH Hönggerberg IGP HIL D 45.2 Zürich , Zürich 8093 CH Phone: 004116333051 E-mail: giger@geod.baug.ethz.ch |
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