Adapting building systems' operation to occupancy variations can provide significant energy savings, but this is typically constrained by the unavailability of occupancy information …
Accurate occupancy information can help in optimizing the operation of building systems. To obtain this information, previous studies suggested using WiFi connection counts due to …
Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can …
One of the main required actions for moving forward in zero-carbon cities' mission is to increase building energy efficiency. Building energy simulations are key tools for HVAC …
An important approach to curtail building energy consumption is to optimize building control based on occupancy information. Various studies proposed to estimate occupant counts …
This paper presents findings of a case-study demonstrating the effectiveness of using WiFi networks to detect occupancy as opposed to CO2 sensors, commonly used for demand …
Estimation of building occupancy has emerged as an important research problem with applications ranging from building energy efficiency, control and automation, safety …
W Wang, J Chen, T Hong, N Zhu - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate occupancy prediction can improve facility control and energy efficiency of buildings. In recent years, buildings' exiting WiFi infrastructures have been widely studied in …
H Mohammadmoradi, S Yin, O Gnawali - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have shown that adjusting HVAC systems based on the number of people inside the room can save at least 38% of energy consumed for reheating. Besides, accurate …