A Novel Emergency Light Based Smart Building Solution: Design, Implementation, and Use Cases

Weitao Xu; Jun Young Kim; Walter Huang; Salil S. Kanhere; Sanjay K. Jha; Wen Hu; Prasant Misra

doi:10.1109/MASS56207.2022.00086

A Novel Emergency Light Based Smart Building Solution: Design, Implementation, and Use Cases

Weitao Xu, Jun Young Kim, Walter Huang, Salil S. Kanhere, Sanjay K. Jha, Wen Hu, Prasant Misra

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Abstract

Deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart buildings has received considerable interest from both the academic community and commercial sectors. Unfortunately, the widespread adoption of current smart building solutions is inhibited by the high costs associated with installation and maintenance. Moreover, different types of IoT devices from different manufacturers typically form distinct networks and data silos. There is a need to use a common backbone network that facilitates interoperability and seamless data exchange in a uniform way. In this paper, we present EMIoT, a novel solution for smart buildings that breaks these barriers by leveraging existing emergency lighting systems. In EMIoT, we embed a wireless LoRa module in each emergency light to turn them into wireless routers. EMIoT has been deployed in more than 50 buildings of different types in Sydney, Australia and has been successfully running over two years. We present the design and implementation of EMIoT in this paper. Moreover, we use the deployment in a residential building as a use case to show the performance of EMIoT in real-world environments and share lessons learned. Finally, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of EMIoT. This paper provides practical insights for IoT deployment in smart buildings for practitioners and solution providers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 19^thInternational Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2022)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	577-585
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-7180-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS56207.2022.00086
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2022 - Denver, United States Duration: 20 Oct 2022 → 22 Oct 2022

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Conference	19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2022
Place	United States
City	Denver
Period	20/10/22 → 22/10/22

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This research was partially supported by Australian Research Council Linkage Project LP160101260. The work described in this paper was sponsored by the project 62101471 supported by NSFC and was partially supported by the Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong. The work described in this paper was also partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. CityU 21201420). The work described in this paper was partially supported by Shenzhen Science and Technology Funding Fundamental Research Program (Project No. 2021Szvup126), NSF of Shandong Province (Project No. ZR2021LZH010), Changsha International and Regional Science and Technology Cooperation Program (Project No. kh2201023), and a grant from Chow Sang Sang Group Research Fund sponsored by Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Limited (Project No. 9229062).

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Emergency Light
IoT
LoRa
Smart Building

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Xu, W., Kim, J. Y., Huang, W., Kanhere, S. S., Jha, S. K., Hu, W., & Misra, P. (2022). A Novel Emergency Light Based Smart Building Solution: Design, Implementation, and Use Cases. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 19^thInternational Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2022) (pp. 577-585). (Proceedings - IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS56207.2022.00086

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