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Proceedings of SimBuild Conference 2012: 5th conference of IBPSA USA
 
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An Interactive Workbench for Monitoring, Identification and Calibration of Building Energy Models
Pavel Dybskiy, Russell RichmanRyerson University, Toronto, CanadaAbstract: This paper presents a concept and main capabilities of
the Matlab-based Building Energy Modeling (BEM)
Workbench developed at Ryerson University (Toronto,
Canada). The workbench was designed as an
interactive tool intended to facilitate and to provide
common media for data processing tasks related to
various building energy modeling procedures such as
(i) on-site data monitoring, (ii) preparation of input
data and analysis of simulation results, (iii) validation,
verification and calibration of building energy models
and (iv) estimation of building thermal parameters.
To illustrate the use of the BEM-Workbench several
working scenarios are presented. Known inputs from
literature methodologies of building thermal
parameter estimation were implemented into the
workbench to demonstrate one of its purposes as a
hypothesis testing tool. Another scenario was
introduced to show how the workbench can be used to
analyze a buildings model’s dynamic behavior, a
critical step in the model’s calibration procedure.
Programmatically, the workbench is configured as a
set of Matlab GUI components and functions with
capability to further expand its functionality.
Pages: 287 - 294 Paper:simbuild2012_05a_3_Dybskiy