Building occupancy forecasting: A systematical and critical review

Y Jin, D Yan, A Chong, B Dong, J An - Energy and buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Indoor environment construction for occupants has high energy consumption; as such,
occupancy plays a noteworthy role in the complete life cycle phase of buildings, including …

Intelligent management systems for energy efficiency in buildings: A survey

A De Paola, M Ortolani, G Lo Re, G Anastasi… - ACM Computing …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, reduction of energy consumption in buildings has increasingly gained
interest among researchers mainly due to practical reasons, such as economic advantages …

Modeling energy consumption in residential buildings: A bottom-up analysis based on occupant behavior pattern clustering and stochastic simulation

L Diao, Y Sun, Z Chen, J Chen - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
In residential buildings, occupant behavior and occupancy status have a significant impact
on energy consumption variation. Although the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating …

Analysis of similarity measures in times series clustering for the discovery of building energy patterns

F Iglesias, W Kastner - Energies, 2013 - mdpi.com
Forecasting and modeling building energy profiles require tools able to discover patterns
within large amounts of collected information. Clustering is the main technique used to …

Data fusion in predicting internal heat gains for office buildings through a deep learning approach

Z Wang, T Hong, MA Piette - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is a major energy consumer in
buildings. The predictive control has demonstrated a potential to reduce HVAC energy use …

Predicting household occupancy for smart heating control: A comparative performance analysis of state-of-the-art approaches

W Kleiminger, F Mattern, S Santini - Energy and Buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comparative study of state-of-the-art means of predicting occupancy
for smart heating control applications. We focus on approaches that predict the occupancy …

Typical occupancy profiles and behaviors in residential buildings in the United States

D Mitra, N Steinmetz, Y Chu, KS Cetin - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy performance of a residential building is highly dependent on occupant's
presence or non-presence in a building and their interactions with energy-consuming …

Forecasting building occupancy: A temporal-sequential analysis and machine learning integrated approach

Y Jin, D Yan, X Kang, A Chong, S Zhan - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Building occupancy is the basis for building energy simulations, operations, and
management. With the increasing need for energy conservation and the occupant-centric …

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 …

Design for reduced resource consumption during the use phase of products

LH Shu, J Duflou, C Herrmann, T Sakao, Y Shimomura… - CIRP annals, 2017 - Elsevier
Much work on sustainable design has focused on product manufacture/assembly and end of
life. Gains in products' technical efficiency address the use phase, but how these products …