POST GRADUATION

MTech

(IT in Building Science)

International Institute of Information Technology

Hyderabad

Anticipated in

Dec ' 2002

Current CGPA

8.4/10.0

Professional Experience

Currently involved with L&T ITL, Chennai for the final semester project. The job covers implementation of BMS and optimization of control methods for HVAC and Lighting and giving proposals for the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the controls. Presently implementing BMS for ECC and L&T ITL buildings along with DDC programming for Lon controllers.

Courses 

• Building Automation: Introduction, Fuzzy Logic, Sensor Technology and Control Theory.

• Intelligent Building Technology: Concepts, Building Management Systems and Standard Protocols.

• Application of AI Techniques in Buildings: Concepts, Artificial Neural Networks and Applications.

• Functional Efficiency & Building Services: HVAC, Building Illumination, Acoustics, Fire and Elevators.

• Embedded Systems Technology: Concepts, Overview and Project.

• Computer Networks: Concepts, LAN, WAN, OSI Model, TCP-IP

• Database Management Systems: Concepts, ER diagrams, normalization.

• Object Oriented Programming Language: Concepts, Java.

Projects 

• INTEGRATED BUILDING DESIGN : Development of architectural design, structural design and project management system for the upcoming head office building for AP Pollution Control Board, Hyderabad. Project taken by group of four students specialized in the respective fields like architecture, structure, project management and services automation. The project deals with energy simulation with structural and architectural design / analysis of real life problem from the industry using advanced IT tools and automating the services.

• ECO WATERING : This project is done using Embedded Systems Technology for automating the process of watering indoor and outdoor plants in buildings. A working prototype has been constructed with in-house design and development of soil humidity sensor. This project was presented at the International Conference "IT in Built Environment" at IIT, Kharagpur in Jan'02.

• Development of computer vision based occupancy detection system in buildings for task control.

• Artificial Neural Networks for cooling load prediction in buildings in tropical climates

• Development of software module for heat load calculation for building using finite difference method

Seminars

• Inter Process Communication: Shared Memory

• Intelligent Buildings Standard Protocols (Lon Works, Bacnet)

• Day lighting: Innovative Techniques

• Local Area Network: A review

• Environment friendly building materials: A literature survey

Miscellaneous

• Worked as a teaching assistant in optics lab.

• Assisted in setting up of Building Automation lab.