ITOBO brings together a full spectrum of academic and industry partners to collaborate in the development of embedded systems addressing the 21st-century needs for the energy-efficient operation and sustainable maintenance of new and existing buildings:
- Ubiquitous sensing infrastructures: by supporting seamless and dynamic end-to-end network composition and service operation through sensor and RFID hardware.
- Disruptive networking paradigms: by enhancing the management of large-scale, complex networks, services, and mobile users through introducing new network and management approaches.
- Decision support systems: the development of novel constraint-based preference models and optimization algorithms that support the configuration, adaptation, and servicing of smart buildings and the networks that manage them.
- Dynamic, re-configurable service architectures: by designing a system architecture that will support scale-free composition of service coalitions with managed operation across several administrative (e.g. tenant, owner, building-operator) and business domains (e.g. suppliers, network operators, facility managers).