Summary
Enhancing Smart Building Renovation with Distributed AI for Energy Optimization
The SEED4AI concept attempts to “edgify” traditional IoT-based building smart renovation strategies, that
exploit conventional low-cost commercial infrastructure. SEED4AI aims to automate building optimization
and control (BOC) for energy performance purposes. More specifically, the SEED4AI BOC system will
leverage lightweight distributed AI optimization schemes and topologies for sensing and load-control
purposes. The optimization will consider the overall performance (accumulated performance of all training
agents) of the optimized (in a distributed manner) models used for forecasting specific building attributes and
for emulating the applied control policy (actor) for the domestic energy-intensive loads (e.g., HVACs). The
overall/accumulated optimization criterion/reward will consider minimizing the corresponding energy
consumption without violating standardized thermal comfort bounds.