RISE member wins Best Paper Award at 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of VR

A paper co-authored by Dr LEE Minhyun, Member of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), won the Best Paper Award for Environmental Sustainability at the 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality.

Dr Lee’s paper, “An Integrated Design of Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Monitoring System for Effective Building Performance Management”, proposes the integrated design of a monitoring system embedded with the internet of things (IoT) for efficient building energy and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) management. The system’s hardware comprises sensors, a wireless microcontroller and a power management unit to acquire, process, and telemeter energy and IEQ data. Meanwhile, the system’s embedded software and web-based information provision unit handle real-time data analysis, transmission and visualisation.

The system will inform end users about energy consumption patterns, thus providing a promising solution for effective building energy and environmental management.