In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …
O Ahmed, N Sezer, M Ouf, LL Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption. However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …
People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …
Detailed occupancy information in buildings is useful to improve the performance of energy management systems in order to enable energy consumption savings and maintain …
HB Gunay, W Shen, G Newsham - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
The data inherent in building automation systems, computerized maintenance management systems, security and access control systems, and IT networks represent an untapped …
L Zhao, Y Li, R Liang, P Wang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Occupancy information is important to building facility managers in terms of building energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, comfort conditions, and safety management of …
Operator decisions regarding daily and seasonal scheduling of systems' availability and setpoints play an important role in building performance. This paper reviews the key …
Many new tools for improving the design and operation of buildings try to realize the potential of big data. In particular, data is an important element for occupant-centric design …
An important instrument for achieving smart and high-performance buildings is Machine Learning (ML). A lot of research has been done in exploring the ML models for various …