Intelligent Buildings: Considerations for its Design using Multiagent Systems

Abstract

In the design phase of Intelligent Buildings, it is essential to manage many services and facilities, to do this, multi-agent systems are a good tool to manage them. This article addresses fundamental aspects of multi-agent systems, oriented to their integration into the design and construction of intelligent buildings. Sensors, control and actuators must be integrated in the initial stages of the construction design to harmonize the different functionalities that are required of an Intelligent Building. In the article, once the concept of Intelligent Building was established, the complexity of its architectural design, makes it convenient to have a structure of procedures that serves as a guide for its integrated design, this has been the central objective of the article, multiagent systems are instrument of design and implementation that allow to compose the different subsystems of control that characterize the Intelligent Buildings. The article provides a review of different approaches to multiagent systems applied to building construction, the basic elements of multiagent systems and the set of their systems to be considered in the early stages of designing an Intelligent Building.