Large amounts of energy is wasted in residential buildings because the heating runs round-the-clock although residents are out of home for certain times of a day. It is therefore our aim to develop a retrofit solution for dwellings that automatically detects occupancy and controls the heating accordingly. We demonstrate that consumer-oriented indoor-environmental sensors can be leveraged to infer occupancy and describe a occupancy-based heating control system on a per-room level. Furthermore, we sketch two forthcoming studies to evaluate our system in a real-world apartment.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Publisher
ACM
Publisher place
New York, NY, USA
Event Title
The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '13)