[HTML][HTML] A review on occupancy prediction through machine learning for enhancing energy efficiency, air quality and thermal comfort in the built environment

W Zhang, Y Wu, JK Calautit - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The occupants' presence, activities, and behaviour can significantly impact the building's
performance and energy efficiency. Currently, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning …

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 …

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 …

A framework to identify key occupancy indicators for optimizing building operation using WiFi connection count data

N Alishahi, M Nik-Bakht, MM Ouf - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Adapting building systems' operation to occupancy variations can provide significant energy
savings, but this is typically constrained by the unavailability of occupancy information …

Transfer learning for estimating occupancy and recognizing activities in smart buildings

J Dridi, M Amayri, N Bouguila - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Activities Recognition (AR) and Occupancy Estimation (OE) are vital to many smart
systems that work on providing good services in smart buildings. Many applications, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a Hidden Markov model for occupancy prediction in high-density higher education buildings

B Alfalah, M Shahrestani, L Shao - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The number of occupants in a building as well as the occupancy patterns and profiles have
a significant impact on the building energy consumption associated with heating, cooling …

MARTINI: Smart meter driven estimation of HVAC schedules and energy savings based on Wi-Fi sensing and clustering

K Nweye, Z Nagy - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
HVAC systems account for a significant portion of building energy use. Nighttime setback
scheduling is an Energy Conservation Measure (ECM) where cooling and heating setpoints …

A framework for a multi-source, data-driven building energy management toolkit

AA Markus, BW Hobson, HB Gunay, S Bucking - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Poor building energy performance often arises from suboptimal operations such as
inappropriate control sequences or hard faults in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning …

CROOD: Estimating crude building occupancy from mobile device connections without ground-truth calibration

JY Park, K Nweye, E Mbata, Z Nagy - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The occupancy information in buildings is fundamental for smart buildings (eg, occupant-
centric controls). Opportunistic occupancy detection (OOD) uses connection data of mobile …

Novel occupancy detection method based on convolutional neural network model using PIR sensor and smart meter data

Y Wu, S Chen, Y Jin, H Xu, X Zhou, X Wang… - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Occupancy information, especially the number of occupants, can effectively guide the
operation of building systems. Capturing real-time and accurate occupancy information is …