- Funded by: EU FP7 Marie Curie IAPP project No. 286333
- Duration: 2012-2015, external website
- Total amount (cca 480 000 EUR for CTU)
Prime Contractor
- University of Sheffield (Coordinator)
Team
- Responsible: Pavel Pechač
- team: Pavel Valtr (2012-2014), Tianyou Yu (2012-2014), Wengang Zhao (2013-2015), Ludek Subrt (2012-2014, in Sheffield)
Partners
- University of Sheffield (Coordinator)
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electromagnetic Field
- Ranplan Ltd
About Project:
The design and construction of buildings has historically been driven by structural, functional, and aesthetic considerations. However, the working and home environment is driven increasingly by energy efficiency and electronic communications whether it be the internet, smart energy metering (to be implemented by 2020), telephone, computer data or multimedia exchange and in future by remote patient monitoring (Telecare) and Assisted Living.
Security in buildings is also a very important issue. The emergency services require pervasive communications at 400 MHz throughout the built environment. In addition City Managers and built environmental professionals will monitor a range of different aspects of the environment, including factors such as air and water quality, noise and lighting levels as well as human and vehicular movement and behaviour. Most of these services are wireless and they will significantly increase in number and importance in the future. Wireless control is also used in buildings for lighting, heating and energy control systems.
The growth of use of these systems into new and demanding applications requires greater efficiency in use of the electromagnetic spectrum and control of wireless interference both within and between adjacent buildings and in the environment itself. Hence, modern buildings must be designed to be wireless radio-friendly and energy efficient whether they are hospitals, schools, offices, prisons or the home.
This project will address how buildings and the built environment can be both energy efficient and wireless friendly.
References:
- L. Subrt, P. Pechac, “Controlling propagation environments using Intelligent Walls,” Proc. 6thEuropean Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1–5, March 2012.
- L. Subrt, P. Pechac, L. Ford, R. Langley, J. Rigelsford, “Intelligent walls as autonomous parts of smart indoor environments,” The 3rd Workshop of COST Action IC0902, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 2012.
- P. Valtr, P. Pechac, T. Korinek, O. Moravek and M. Prihoda, “Measurement of window blind attenuation at 5-50 GHz,” Proc. 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 3653–3656, April 2013.
- L. Subrt, “Controlling Coverage for Indoor Wireless Networks using Smart Walls ,” Proc. 8th International Workshop on Small Cell and HetNet, Luton, UK, May 2013.
- P. Valtr and P. Pechac, “EM Wave Transmission through a Window Blind Structure,” Proc. IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE APWC), September 2013.
- L. Subrt, P. Pechac, L. Ford, R. Langley, J. Rigelsford, “Controlling Coverage for Indoor Wireless Networks Using Metalized Active FSS Walls,” Proc. Asia-Pacific Communication Conference (APCC) 2013, Bali, Indonesia, August 2013.
- O. Hrstka, L. Subrt, P. Pechac, V. Micka, J. Vokrinek, “Mobility Model for Indoor Conference Scenarios,” The 4th Workshop of COST Action IC0902, Rome, Italy, October 2014.
