This document summarizes the results of several research projects related to the Internet of Things and smart buildings. It discusses the Green-Line project from 2009-2012 which developed a global solution for reducing buildings' ecological footprint through automated management using transparent, low-cost, and electromagnetic pollution-free technology. It also summarizes the Green-Bee and Green-Com projects which aimed to develop low-emission, low-polluting, and robust IoT technologies, as well as the Green-App project which built intelligent services by exposing sensor data through REST APIs. Further, it discusses the Hasler Smart Living Green-Mod and POPWIN projects related to machine learning and parallel object programming for heterogeneous wireless networks in IoT applications.

1. Internet of Things and
Smart Buildings
Some results of the Green-Line, Green-Mod, ee-WoT,
easyflow and popwin research projects
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2. Internet of Things and
Smart Buildings
Let’s be pessimistic !
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3. Things are ugly !

4. They need to be powered !
The IoT will link approximately 50
billion machines and devices by 2020
Dave Evans, Cisco.

5. They are probably polluting !
• Would you put a Wi-Fi antenna on top of
your baby’s bed?
• Do you know that PLC
emits EM waves?
• What is the carbon
footprint of a
commutating thing?

6. They need to be
configured and managed !
• What services are
available on this
sensor?
• How do I know if
a sensor disappears?
• Where do I store
measurements and
business logic?

8. Green-Line project
2009-2012
Solution globale pour la réduction de
l’empreinte écologique des
bâtiments par gestion automatisée
en utilisant une technologie
transparente, à faible coût et sans
pollution électromagnétique.
Hervé Dedieu, HEIG-VD
Médard Rieder, HEVS
Jean Hennebert, HEVS - EIA-FR
François Courvoisier, HEARC

9. Green-Bee : Hiding things !
Insic Wall Socket, 2010
•Let’s hide the technology
in what we already see in
our houses
Legrand série Celiane

10. Green-Com: Make things low-e,
low polluting and robust
•Low-e, low polluting
• Spike based
communication
• Inductive powering
•Robust
• Intelligent routing
protocol
• Able to jump over
electric phases

11. Green-App: exploit the signals and
build intelligence
•Low-e network gateway
•Expose Green-Bees with
REST APIs
•Build smart services

12. Hasler Smart Living Green-Mod
• Hasler Green-Mod project, 2012-2015
• Machine learning applied to the maximization of energy efficiency in buildings
• Identification of electric appliances from their load traces
• Identification of activities, modeling the behavior of building users
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13. POPWIN: Parallel Object Remote Programming
for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks over IPv6
• Partenariat EIA-FR / Université de Genève, financement Hasler
• EIA-FR: réalisation un outil de programmation orientée objet pour le
développement d'applications utilisant de grands réseaux de capteurs.
Cet outil est basé sur le modèle POP (Parallel Object Programming) développé
dans le Grid&Cloud Computing Group de l'EAI-FR.
• UniGe: Cooperative resources
tracking, Energy balance
mechanism, Implementation of
geographic coordinate systems.
• Outillage pour la réalisation de projets
au sein du CSI
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14. Hasler Smart Living EasyFlow
RCSO Energy Efficient - Web-of-Things
• Hasler Smart Living EasyFlow, 2012-2015
• RCSO TIC EE-WoT, 2012-2013
• Analysis of Energy Efficient ICT for the Internet
of Things and its application in buildings
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15. Questions
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