ITOBO

ITOBO is a Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Cluster for Sustainable and Optimised Building Operation. The project undertakes research in Information and Communication Technology to develop a holistic, methodological framework for life-cycle oriented information management and decision support in the construction and energy-management sectors. The domain-specific goal is to develop an anticipating (smart) building that operates on an energy efficient and user-friendly basis while reducing its maintenance costs.       

ITOBO will contribute to the holistic development of Network Enabled Building Management Systems through an academic/industry collaboration with multidisciplinary expertise in:

• Hardware Design
• Wireless Systems integration and network protocol development
• Constraint-based Decision Support
• N-dimensional Information Modelling
• Facilities Management with access to sophisticated built infrastructure and co-operation with standardisation bodies.

The IRUSE group is directly involved in the project through the development of detailed (CFD) and Reduced Order Models(Modelica) of the demonstrator buildings. These models are then used to implement optimisation and energy saving strategies. 
  

Key information

Start date: December 2007 
End date: December 2012 
Source of funding: Science Foundation Ireland 
Website:http://zuse.ucc.ie/itobo/ 
IRUSE contact:  Dr. Marco Geron