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Life Cycle Assessment of Digitalization in Buildings: The Case of a Building Monitoring System
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Sustainability Assessment and Management. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures. KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Centres, KTH Climate Action Centre, CAC.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7480-0858
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Sustainability Assessment and Management. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures. KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Centres, KTH Climate Action Centre, CAC.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9873-0949
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2300-2581
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Sustainability Assessment and Management. KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Centres, Digital futures. KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Centres, KTH Climate Action Centre, CAC.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5600-0726
2024 (English)In: 2024 10th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), Stockholm: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Digital solutions based on information and communication technologies (ICT) provide many opportunities in buildings to achieve resource and energy efficiency. In general, these solutions enable either monitoring or advanced control of buildings. The ICT solutions' overall impacts on the environment are often presumed positive without a holistic approach based on life cycle thinking. The research on energy and indoor monitoring systems usually focuses on system performance and potential benefits rather than the entire system and it thus misses the life cycle impacts of the system itself. To address this limitation, the aims of this study are to assess life cycle environmental and resource impacts of a building monitoring system (BMS) and to identify hotspots in this system. The case study of KTH Living Lab represents an extensive BMS. It was applied and assessed using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The results show that wires, sensors and data acquisition equipment constitute hotspots for all the environmental and resource impacts assessed in this study. Thus, the impacts of these devices are important to consider by, e.g, building managers.

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Stockholm: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-358735DOI: 10.1109/ICT4S64576.2024.00028ISI: 001412766300019Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85216095975OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-358735DiVA, id: diva2:1929544
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2024 10th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), Stockholm, 24-28 June, 2024
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Available from: 2025-01-20 Created: 2025-01-20 Last updated: 2025-10-02Bibliographically approved

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Azizi, ShoaibFurberg, AnnaMolinari, MarcoFinnveden, Göran

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