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An IoT-Based Smart Building Solution for Indoor Environment Management and Occupants Prediction
- Source :
- Energies, Vol 14, Iss 2959, p 2959 (2021), Energies; Volume 14; Issue 10; Pages: 2959
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Smart buildings use Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for monitoring indoor environmental parameters, such as temperature, humidity, luminosity, and air quality. Due to the huge amount of data generated by these sensors, data analytics and machine learning techniques are needed to extract useful and interesting insights, which provide the input for the building optimization in terms of energy-saving, occupants’ health and comfort. In this paper, we propose an IoT-based smart building (SB) solution for indoor environment management, which aims to provide the following main functionalities: monitoring of the room environmental parameters; detection of the number of occupants in the room; a cloud platform where virtual entities collect the data acquired by the sensors and virtual super entities perform data analysis tasks using machine learning algorithms; a control dashboard for the management and control of the building. With our prototype, we collected data for 10 days, and we built two prediction models: a classification model that predicts the number of occupants based on the monitored environmental parameters (average accuracy of 99.5%), and a regression model that predicts the total volatile organic compound (TVOC) values based on the environmental parameters and the number of occupants (Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.939).
- Subjects :
- Technology
Control and Optimization
Computer science
020209 energy
Real-time computing
Internet of Things
smart building
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Cloud computing
02 engineering and technology
environmental parameters
occupants prediction
data analytics
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0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Air quality index
Building automation
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Building and Construction
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
Data analytic
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Data analysis
Environmental parameter
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Dashboard
Internet of Thing
business
Predictive modelling
Energy (miscellaneous)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19961073
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 2959
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Energies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6b1c18287b52b9f46ff17c8c68cd3379