ThermoSense: Thermal Array Sensor Networks in Building Management

Varick L. Erickson, Alex Beltran, Daniel A. Winkler, Niloufar P. Esfahani, John R. Lusby, Alberto E. Cerpa

Abstract

Buildings are often inefficiently conditioned. Rooms that are empty are needlessly conditioned and partially filled rooms are conditioned assuming maximum occupancy. In this demonstration, we describe a system that reduces energy consumption by opportunistically reducing energy consumption based on room usage; we only condition rooms currently occupied and condition the space based on real-time occupancy measurements. We will show how a thermal sensor array can be used measure occupancy in real-time and how this occupancy information can be integrated with a real building management system in order to control the heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting of a building to optimize energy usage.

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Varick L. Erickson, Alex Beltran, Daniel A. Winkler, Niloufar P. Esfahani, John R. Lusby, Alberto E. Cerpa, "ThermoSense: Thermal Array Sensor Networks in Building Management," Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013), pp. 87:1--87:2, ACM, Rome, Province of Rome, Italy, November, 2013.

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@Conference{Erickson13b,
  author =       "Varick L. Erickson and Alex Beltran and Daniel A.
                 Winkler and Niloufar P. Esfahani and John R. Lusby and
                 Alberto E. Cerpa",
  title =        "ThermoSense: Thermal Array Sensor Networks in Building
                 Management",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Embedded
                 Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013)",
  pages =        "87:1--87:2",
  year =         "2013",
  month =        nov,
  address =      "Rome, Province of Rome, Italy",
  articleno =    "87",
  doi =          "10.1145/2517351.2517437",
  acmid =        "2517437",
  publisher =    "ACM",
  note =         "Best Demo Award",
  URL =          "http://www.andes.ucmerced.edu/papers/Erickson13b.pdf",
}

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