A systematic approach to occupancy modeling in ambient sensor-rich buildings

Z Yang, N Li, B Becerik-Gerber, M Orosz - Simulation, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
With ever-rising energy demand and diminishing sources of inexpensive energy resources,
energy conservation has become an increasingly important topic. Building heating …

[PDF][PDF] Real-time occupancy detection using decision trees with multiple sensor types

E Hailemariam, R Goldstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - damassets.autodesk.net
The ability to accurately determine localized building occupancy in real time enables several
compelling applications, including intelligent control of building systems to minimize energy …

Occupancy detection in the office by analyzing surveillance videos and its application to building energy conservation

J Zou, Q Zhao, W Yang, F Wang - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
Indoor occupancy measurement plays an indispensable role in occupant-based intelligent
control of building systems for energy conservation. In this paper, a novel algorithm is …

Building energy and comfort management through occupant behaviour pattern detection based on a large-scale environmental sensor network

B Dong, KP Lam - Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Detection of occupant presence has been used extensively in built environments for
applications such as demand-controlled ventilation and security. However, the ability to …

Critical review and research roadmap of office building energy management based on occupancy monitoring

S Salimi, A Hammad - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings are responsible for a large portion of global energy consumption. Therefore, a
detailed investigation towards a more effective energy performance of buildings is needed …

Application of mobile positioning occupancy data for building energy simulation: An engineering case study

Z Pang, P Xu, Z O'Neill, J Gu, S Qiu, X Lu, X Li - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Occupancy data is a critical input parameter for building energy simulation since it has a big
impact on the precision and accuracy of building energy model performance. However …

A sensor-utility-network method for estimation of occupancy in buildings

S Meyn, A Surana, Y Lin, SM Oggianu… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce the sensor-utility-network (SUN) method for occupancy estimation in buildings.
Based on inputs from a variety of sensor measurements, along with historical data regarding …

Contextual occupancy detection for smart office by pattern recognition of electricity consumption data

A Akbar, M Nati, F Carrez… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of IoT has resulted in a trend towards more innovative and automated
applications. In this regard, occupancy detection plays an important role in many smart …

Occupancy detection via environmental sensing

M Jin, N Bekiaris-Liberis, K Weekly… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensing by proxy (SbP) is proposed in this paper as a sensing paradigm for occupancy
detection, where the inference is based on “proxy” measurements such as temperature and …

Boes: building occupancy estimation system using sparse ambient vibration monitoring

S Pan, A Bonde, J Jing, L Zhang… - Sensors and smart …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, we present a room-level building occupancy estimation system (BOES)
utilizing low-resolution vibration sensors that are sparsely distributed. Many ubiquitous …