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Understanding occupant-building interactions helps in personalized energy and comfort management. However, occupant identification using affordable infrastructure, remains unresolved. Our analysis of existing solutions revealed that for a building to have real-time view of occupancy state and use it intelligently, there needs to be a smart fusion of affordable, not-necessarily-smart, yet accurate enough sensors. Such a sensor fusion should aim for minimalistic user intervention while providing accurate building occupancy data. We describe an occupant detection system that accurately monitors the occupants’ count and identities in a shared office space, which can be scaled up for a building. Incorporating aspects from data analytics and sensor fusion with intuition, we have built a Smart-Door using inexpensive sensors to tackle this problem. It is a scalable, plug-and-play software architecture for flexibly realizing smart-doors using different sensors to monitor buildings with varied occupancy profiles. Further, we show various smart-energy applications of this occupancy information: detecting anomalous device behaviour and load forecasting of plug-level loads.
The authors would like to thank DeitY, Govt. of India and TCS for their generous support of this work.
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Nasir, N. et al. (2015). Fusing Sensors for Occupancy Sensing in Smart Buildings. In: Natarajan, R., Barua, G., Patra, M.R. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8956. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14977-6_5
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