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 …

A review of wireless-sensor-network-enabled building energy management systems

AH Kazmi, MJ O'grady, DT Delaney… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Reducing energy consumption within buildings has been an active area of research in the
past decade; more recently, there has been an increased influx of activity, motivated by a …

Sentinel: occupancy based HVAC actuation using existing WiFi infrastructure within commercial buildings

B Balaji, J Xu, A Nwokafor, R Gupta… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings contribute to 19% of the primary energy consumption in the US, with
HVAC systems accounting for 39.6% of this usage. To reduce HVAC energy use, prior …

Private memoirs of a smart meter

A Molina-Markham, P Shenoy, K Fu… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Household smart meters that measure power consumption in real-time at fine granularities
are the foundation of a future smart electricity grid. However, the widespread deployment of …

Plaid: a public dataset of high-resoultion electrical appliance measurements for load identification research: demo abstract

J Gao, S Giri, EC Kara, M Bergés - … of the 1st ACM Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the Plug-Level Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID), a public and crowd-
sourced dataset for load identification research consisting of short voltage and current …

On the accuracy of appliance identification based on distributed load metering data

A Reinhardt, P Baumann, D Burgstahler… - … Internet and ICT for …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic load management, ie, allowing electricity utilities to remotely turn electric
appliances in households on or off, represents a key element of the smart grid. Appliances …

Reducing transient and steady state electricity consumption in HVAC using learning-based model-predictive control

A Aswani, N Master, J Taneja, D Culler… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are an important target for
efficiency improvements through new equipment and retrofitting because of their large …

Household occupancy monitoring using electricity meters

W Kleiminger, C Beckel, S Santini - … of the 2015 ACM international joint …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Occupancy monitoring (ie. sensing whether a building or room is currently occupied) is
required by many building automation systems. An automatic heating system may, for …

A survey on intrusive load monitoring for appliance recognition

A Ridi, C Gisler, J Hennebert - 2014 22nd international …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electricity load monitoring of appliances has become an important task considering the
recent economic and ecological trends. In this game, machine learning has an important …

ViridiScope: design and implementation of a fine grained power monitoring system for homes

Y Kim, T Schmid, ZM Charbiwala… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
A key prerequisite for residential energy conservation is knowing when and where energy is
being spent. Unfortunately, the current generation of energy reporting devices only provide …