1. Smart Meeting Room Usage Information and Prediction by Modelling Occupancy Profiles
- Author
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Unai Saralegui, JAVIER FRANCISCO MUGUERZA RIVERO, Olatz Arbelaitz, Richard Josephberg, and Dr. Miguel Angel Anton
- Subjects
iot ,Sensor networks ,Occupancy ,Computer science ,020209 energy ,Behaviour modelling ,Control (management) ,Real-time computing ,Occupancy detection ,design ,02 engineering and technology ,lcsh:Chemical technology ,Biochemistry ,zigbee ,Article ,Analytical Chemistry ,behaviour modelling ,Smart meeting room ,ambient intelligence ,sensor networks ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,lcsh:TP1-1185 ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Buildings ,Instrumentation ,technologies ,Ambient intelligence ,energy management-system ,behavior ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Energy consumption ,buildings ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,smart meeting room ,Internet of Things (IoT) ,Energy management system ,occupancy detection ,methodologies ,Communications protocol ,Wireless sensor network ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
The monitoring of small houses and rooms has become possible due to the advances in IoT sensors, actuators and low power communication protocols in the last few years. As buildings are one of the biggest energy consuming entities, monitoring them has great interest for trying to avoid non-necessary energy waste. Moreover, human behaviour has been reported as being the main discrepancy source between energy usage simulations and real usage, so the ability to monitor and predict actions as opening windows, using rooms, etc. is gaining attention to develop stronger models which may lead to reduce the overall energy consumption of buildings, considering buildings thermal inertia and additional capabilities. In this paper, a case study is described in which four meeting rooms have been monitored to obtain information about the usage of the rooms and later use it to predict their future usage. The results show the possibility to deploy a simple and non-intrusive sensing system whose output could be used to develop advanced control strategies. This work was partially supported by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government (ADIAN research group, grant IT980-16) and by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government and the European Regional Development fund- ERDF (PhysComp project, TIN2017-85409-P).
- Published
- 2019