Integrated Smart Management Platform:Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach for Smart Green Campus
Abstract
Integrated Smart Management Platform:Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach for Smart Green CampusWorajit Setthapun and Chayanon SawatdeenarunatAsian Development College for Community Economy and TechnologyChiang Mai Rajabhat University, Thailand; worajit@gmail.comWater, energy, and food are the fundamental human basic needs. However, based on the rapid growing of global population and urbanization, the consumption of these resources is become competitive and creates significant pressure on the supply chain and generate many environmental issues. Naturally, water, energy, and food have a strong correlation and cannot individually be managed. The water food energy nexus (WEF) is a novel concept to sustainably development strategies by integrating the management of these resources simultaneously. Chiang Mai Rajabhat University (CMRU), one of the most prestigious educational institutions located in northern Thailand, has planned to move more than 20,000 students and staff from the main campus in the middle of Chiang Mai to its new campus namely Mae rim campus which is 30 km away from the main campus within the next 5 years. Regarding to the significant increasing of the campus members, the need of water, energy, and food will be dramatically consumed. Thus, the huge demands of food, energy, drinking water and water supply will be required, accordingly. Inaddition, the appropriate waste and wastewater managements will be necessary to handle the generated municipal wastes for protecting the surrounding environments and ecosystem.Asian Development College for Community Economy and Technology (adiCET) has concerned about energy conservation, higher efficiencies, and use of renewable energies as well as water conservation and modern food production following the WEF concept. Chiang Mai World Green City (CMGC) has been developed under adiCET management to exhibit the smart green community byintegrating renewable energy, green technology, and smart farming since 2010. The CMGC has successfully demonstrated the integrated energy management by using the internal smart grid and smart monitoring system to optimize the electricity usage. The smart farm is the CMGC~s green agricultural technology to produce the organic vegetables serving the villagers and minimize the energy, water, and fertilizer for saving the cultivation cost. Many renewable energies (i.e. biogas, solar cell, and synthesis gas) have also been installed in CMGC to mainly produce heat and electricity for supplying all member. Moreover, some CMGC~s smart systems have been successfully transferred to the rural communities to enhance the villagers~ quality of life. In this proposal, the integrated smart technologies will be extended to completely manage the Mae rim campus facilities focusing on the 4 main aspects namely energy, modernagriculture, water, and environment to enhance this campus to the smart-green campus. Thus, the main purposes of this project are:1. To design and install the smart monitoring systems to the campus~ existing facilities and buildings (i.e. distributed generation, buildings, farms, water supply, drinking water, and waste treatment)2. To develop the integrated learning system for analyzing and controlling the smart-green campus from the data of the monitoring systems3. To set up the smart monitoring center to centralized monitor and control the CMRU~s Mae rim campus~s facilities
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 24, 2019
- Source ID
- N000141912160
Entities
People
- Worajit Setthapun
Organizations
- Chiang Mai Rajabhat University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy