Indoor environment construction for occupants has high energy consumption; as such,
occupancy plays a noteworthy role in the complete life cycle phase of buildings, including …

This paper reviews occupancy based model predictive control (MPC) for building indoor
climate control. Occupancy behavior in buildings is stochastic and complex in nature. With …

We present a new algorithm for mining maximal frequent itemsets from a transactional
database. Our algorithm is especially efficient when the itemsets in the database are very …

Nowadays, in the residential sector, a widely used Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
system is the ducted direct expansion inverter system based on the on/off control of a single …

Residential buildings account for 20% of total energy consumption in the United States, with
single family detached houses accounting for 77% of residential site energy consumption. A …

There is enormous potential for building-focused applications to improve operation and
sustainability, both for classical uses like modeling or fault detection as well as innovative …

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) combine low-power radios with embedded processors in
order to provide high-resolution sensing and actuation over a geographic area. This …

The traditional heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system depends on wired
mechanical thermostats and regulators deployed at various points in the industrial …

This paper presents a novel approach to convert a conventional house air conditioning
installation into a more efficient system that individually controls the temperature of each …

Smart Ventilation is of great interest for both improving occupants' comfort and for energy
savings. Smart ventilation using Variable Air Volume (VAV) devices is not very practical in …