Contaminant event monitoring in multi-zone buildings using the state-space method" by Dr. Michalis Michaelides and colleagues from the KIOS Research Center, University of Cyprus, received the prestigious 2014 Best Paper Award for high quality publications in the Elsevier journal "Building and Environment." The article was selected from a very competitive pool of about 1500 submissions in 2014, after been carefully evaluated by the Editorial Advisory Board based on originality, contributions to the field, quality of presentation, and soundness of the science. For more information see http://www.journals.elsevier.com/building-and-environment/news/2014-best-paper-awards-announced/
The paper studies the problem of contaminant event monitoring in intelligent buildings. The dispersion of contaminants from sources (events) inside a building can compromise the indoor air quality and influence the occupants' comfort, health, productivity and safety. Such events could be the result of an accident, faulty equipment or a planned attack. Under these safety-critical conditions, immediate event detection should be guaranteed and the proper actions should be taken to ensure the safety of the people. In this paper, the event is considered as a fault in the process that disturbs the normal system operation. This places the problem of contaminant event monitoring in the fault diagnosis framework of detection and isolation. A main contribution of this work is the development of the state-space method, based on multi-zone building models, that enables the use of advanced fault diagnosis tools for contaminant event monitoring. For more information see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132313002837
The publisher, Elsevier, has made the above paper free to access until April 30, 2015
The publisher, Elsevier, has made the above paper free to access until April 30, 2015
