Design And Implementation Of Indoor Energy-consumption Panorama Display System

With increasingly extensive attention to energy conservation, energy management ofpublic buildings becomes an increasingly important issue. With the development of buildingmonitoring systems of energy-consumption, energy managers’ requirements for system’sinteraction are increasing. At present, most energy monitoring systems show devices’ statusand energy information in the way of charts combined with text only, which graduallybecomes unable to meet the requirements of users. Users hope to combine devices’ runningstatus and energy-consumption information with the real environment and their real-timefacade features. That is coming true and the new interaction requirements are able to be ledand satisfied with the development of Virtual Reality technology.The main objective of this paper is to present a new exhibition form forenergy-consumption system, which satisfies the interaction requirements when users areaccessing devices. On this basis, we designed and implemented an indoorenergy-consumption panorama exhibition system. Firstly, the key technology used in thisproject are presented and analyzed, including the OpenCV-based panorama image stitchingtechnology and Papervision3D-based three-dimension technology. Then the design process ofthis system is stated, analyzing the key modules and methods. Then the implementationprocess and result of this system are stated, including the Flex-based front-end interface, theOpenCV-based image stitching, the Papervision3D-based panorama and the access of devicemodels. Researching and applying the OpenCV-based image stitching in the way ofexperiments and analysis draws some valuable conclusions. In the part of panorama, we statehow to build panorama with Papervision3D and how to access device models. Finally, thispaper describes the testing process and results of this system.This paper puts forward to building indoor energy-consumption panorama exhibitionsystem in the way of combining three-dimension panorama technology and geometricmodeling technology, which satisfies the interaction requirements for energy-consumptionmanagement. In this new way to interact, energy managers’ job experience will rise to a newlevel and the research and application of this project will promote further development ofVirtual Reality systems’ application.