Paper Info
Title
Accurate real-time occupant energy-footprinting in commercial buildings.
Abstract
Buildings consume a significant portion of the total delivered energy. While the community has been working on monitoring the building energy usage, we argue that an accurate accounting of individual occupants' energy expenditure in real-time is still the missing piece. And, this missing piece makes incentivizing energy reduction a challenge. We take a systematic approach and identify the lack of real-time association between human actions and observed energy consumption as one roadblock. To this end, we first present a model that enables real-time accounting of appliances with delay characteristics. Building on top of this model, we introduce a complete system that fairly attributes energy usages of shared resources, and reveals per-person energy footprint information. And, our system has several ways to analyze and visualize individuals' energy footprint. Finally, we present the deployment experience at an office building.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2422531.2422552
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy expenditure,energy footprint,observed energy consumption,energy usage,real-time accounting,energy reduction,per-person energy footprint information,missing piece,accurate real-time occupant,office building,building energy usage,commercial building
Software deployment,Energy expenditure,Energy reduction,Building energy,Footprint,Engineering,Energy consumption,Environmental economics,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.75
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Cheng1150.75
Kaifei Chen2656.86
Ben Zhang31087.28
Chieh-Jan Mike Liang480443.13
Xiaofan Jiang5949110.46
Feng Zhao64593455.17