In recent years, systems consisting of both
physical and computational elements, called Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), have
entered into our lives. These systems are becoming increasingly important
because of their wide application area such as smart buildings, intelligent
manufacturing processes, energy grids, healthcare devices, smart agriculture
and etc. In this work, CPSs are considered by means of a smart building
application. Firstly, CPSs are introduced and their features are explained. Then, a smart building is considered for
emphasizing and illustrating the importance of CPSs. In order to display
working mechanism of computational and physical components of the building and
to provide easy trace of the evolution of overall system, some physical components
(smart AC, lighting system and smart TV) are developed via Petri net, which is
a mathematical and graphical tool for modelling and analysing discrete event
systems.
Subjects | Engineering |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | December 1, 2016 |
Published in Issue | Year 2016 Special Issue (2016) |