A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics

N Luo, Z Wang, D Blum, C Weyandt, N Bourassa… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
This paper presents the curation of a monitored dataset from an office building constructed
in 2015 in Berkeley, California. The dataset includes whole-building and end-use energy …

A synthetic building operation dataset

H Li, Z Wang, T Hong - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
This paper presents a synthetic building operation dataset which includes HVAC, lighting,
miscellaneous electric loads (MELs) system operating conditions, occupant counts …

Data science for building energy management: A review

M Molina-Solana, M Ros, MD Ruiz… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of residential and commercial buildings has risen steadily in recent
years, an increase largely due to their HVAC systems. Expected energy loads …

An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data

N Luo, M Pritoni, T Hong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Building information modeling (BIM) has been widely adopted for representing and
exchanging building data across disciplines during building design and construction …

Brick: Towards a unified metadata schema for buildings

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings have long since been a primary target for applications from a number
of areas: from cyber-physical systems to building energy use to improved human …

Brick: Metadata schema for portable smart building applications

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao, J Gluck… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 32% of worldwide energy usage. A new regime of exciting new
“applications” that span a distributed fabric of sensors, actuators and humans has emerged …

Extending the Brick schema to represent metadata of occupants

N Luo, G Fierro, Y Liu, B Dong, T Hong - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy-related behaviors of occupants constitute a key factor influencing building
performance; accordingly, the measured occupant data can support the objective …

[PDF][PDF] Smart*: An open data set and tools for enabling research in sustainable homes

S Barker, A Mishra, D Irwin… - SustKDD …, 2012 - odysseus.informatik.uni-oldenburg …
The goal of the Smart* project is to optimize home energy consumption. As part of the
project, we have designed and deployed a “live” system that continuously gathers a wide …

Mortar: an open testbed for portable building analytics

G Fierro, M Pritoni, M AbdelBaky, D Lengyel… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Access to large amounts of real-world data has long been a barrier to the development and
evaluation of analytics applications for the built environment. Open datasets exist, but they …

Big data from the built environment

A Khan, K Hornbæk - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
As sensor networks in buildings continue to grow in number and heterogeneity, occupants
can become empowered to better control their environment for comfort maximization and …