TY - JOUR
T1 - Feasibility of UTS Smart Home to Support Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations (UN SDGs)
T2 - Water and Energy Conservation
AU - Kee, Keh Kim
AU - Ting, Huong Yong
AU - Lim, Yun Seng
AU - Ting, Jackie Tiew Wei
AU - Peter, Marcella
AU - Ibrahim, Khairunnisa
AU - Show, Pau Loke
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the University of Technology Sarawak UTS Research Grant (UCTS/RESEARCH/4/2021/11). The authors thank Pansar Company Sdn Bhd (PANSAR) for generous sponsoring of Davey RainBank Rainwater Harvesting Pump System and the technical support by Ling M.H, Albert Teng, and Lynda Law. Any correspondence related to this paper should be addressed to Keh-Kim Kee.
Funding Information:
This research was funded by UTS Research Grant number UCTS/RESEARCH/4/2021/11.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors.
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations strive to maximize development needs, while minimizing environmental deterioration, without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. Nevertheless, due to urbanization, the escalating trend in natural-resource use, particularly electricity and water, is currently a crucial challenge for sustainable development. One of the promising options is the smart home, which is an extension of building automation with smart characteristics in monitoring, analyzing, controlling, and cloud computing with networked smart devices. Due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and conscious consumption, its global adoption in the construction industry remains low. We present a technical feasibility of a multi-functional experimental smart home to support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in terms of water and energy conservation. The layered architecture of the cloud platform with an application program interface enables seamless integration of heterogeneous smart-home technologies and data sources. Use cases demonstrated its capacity to conserve electrical energy and water resources in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Aside from that, the smart home’s electricity self-consumption of at least three autonomy days was confirmed with zero emissions and electricity bills, and a reduced supply-water consumption.
AB - The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations strive to maximize development needs, while minimizing environmental deterioration, without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. Nevertheless, due to urbanization, the escalating trend in natural-resource use, particularly electricity and water, is currently a crucial challenge for sustainable development. One of the promising options is the smart home, which is an extension of building automation with smart characteristics in monitoring, analyzing, controlling, and cloud computing with networked smart devices. Due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and conscious consumption, its global adoption in the construction industry remains low. We present a technical feasibility of a multi-functional experimental smart home to support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in terms of water and energy conservation. The layered architecture of the cloud platform with an application program interface enables seamless integration of heterogeneous smart-home technologies and data sources. Use cases demonstrated its capacity to conserve electrical energy and water resources in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Aside from that, the smart home’s electricity self-consumption of at least three autonomy days was confirmed with zero emissions and electricity bills, and a reduced supply-water consumption.
KW - cloud computing
KW - decision support system
KW - energy management system
KW - environment sustainability
KW - rainwater harvesting
KW - smart home
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139906295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su141912242
DO - 10.3390/su141912242
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139906295
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 14
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 19
M1 - 12242
ER -
