Building Energy Management Systems Actuated Using Wireless Camera Sensor Network

Siddharth Zaveri, Shane Ross, Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa

Abstract

Heating, cooling, ventilation, conditioning and lighting currently account for approximately 60% of the energy consumption within buildings. The conditioning of these areas, however, are not controlled optimally. Rooms that are empty or only partially occupied are conditioned assuming maximum occupancy rather than actual occupancy. In order to optimize conditioning, room usage must be considered. In this demonstration, we show the interplay between a wireless camera sensor network, which is used for detection and tracking of people entering/exiting rooms, and building energy management infrastructure, which controls the heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting for a room/area.

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Siddharth Zaveri, Shane Ross, Varick Erickson, Ankur U. Kamthe, Tao Liu, Alberto E. Cerpa, "Building Energy Management Systems Actuated Using Wireless Camera Sensor Network," Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys 2011), pp. 39--40, Seattle, WA, USA, 2011.

Bibtex

@Conference{Zaveri11a,
  author =       "Siddharth Zaveri and Shane Ross and Varick Erickson
                 and Ankur U. Kamthe and Tao Liu and Alberto E. Cerpa",
  title =        "Building Energy Management Systems Actuated Using
                 Wireless Camera Sensor Network",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded
                 Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings
                 (BuildSys 2011)",
  year =         "2011",
  pages =        "39--40",
  address =      "Seattle, WA, USA",
  URL =          "http://www.andes.ucmerced.edu/papers/Zaveri11a.pdf",
}

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