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Miyata Lab
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A smart building lab that uses data to operate building equipment intelligently.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring new architectural value by making buildings smart.
Miyata Lab researches the foundational technologies for making buildings smart, and how to use them.
The lab develops models that reproduce building services such as air conditioning on a computer, and control methods that operate equipment based on data.
It is a new lab established through the "Smart Building System Social Cooperation Program," run jointly with companies, and it works together with the Akashi Lab.
Research here mostly assumes programming skills, but Prof. Miyata himself had no programming experience until entering the master's program, and encourages students to grow through research.
Key terms
- Smart building
- A building that holds its information as models and data in the digital world, and keeps improving its operation and comfort through apps.
- Emulator
- A mechanism that closely imitates the behavior of real machines or systems on a computer.
- Demand response
- A mechanism in which the building side adjusts how it uses electricity according to supply and demand conditions in the power grid.
NewsLab news
A paper by Project Lecturer Miyata and colleagues received the Paper Award of the SHASE Awards from the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
A joint researcher received the Paper Encouragement Award from the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
Project Lecturer Miyata received the Encouragement Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan
A paper by Project Lecturer Miyata and colleagues received the Paper Award of the SHASE Awards from the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab sees a building as a gateway for providing services to people, and aims for smart buildings whose value keeps increasing by holding models and data in the digital world. To that end, it focuses on developing emulators of building services systems and data-driven control algorithms.
*Illustrative imageHVAC System Simulation
The lab independently develops a simulation that can reproduce the control behavior of HVAC systems. It is used to generate data for when faults occur and to investigate optimal control.
*Illustrative imageFault Detection and Diagnosis
Using high-quality data generated by simulation, the lab diagnoses the causes of HVAC system faults directly with deep learning. The challenge is to improve the method further so that it can be used in industry.
*Illustrative imageOptimal Control
The lab develops control algorithms at various scales, such as control that responds to conditions in the power grid (demand response) and control that keeps indoor pressure neutral to prevent drafts through gaps in the building envelope.
*Illustrative imageSemantic Data Models
The lab studies methods for describing the semantic relationships within building systems in code and putting them to use. This is a topic that has entered the field of building services from computer science in recent years.
MembersFaculty
- Project LecturerShohei MiyataPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Faculty of Engineering Bldg.1 Tokyo University 2010” Wiiii / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- HVAC System Simulation: “Klimaanlage schmatisch” Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Fault Detection and Diagnosis: “Air Cooled Liquid Chiller” Saud / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Optimal Control: “Transmission Lines at Sunset” Kkiefuik This photo was taken with Canon EOS 90D / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Semantic Data Models: “Knowledge graph management system” Luigi Bellomarini / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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