Optimizing building energy consumption in office buildings: A review of building automation and control systems and factors influencing energy savings

L Vandenbogaerde, S Verbeke, A Audenaert - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) offer promising opportunities to
reduce building energy consumption, aligning with the European Union's climate goals. This …

Modeling occupant behavior in buildings

S Carlucci, M De Simone, SK Firth, MB Kjærgaard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

Building simulation: Ten challenges

T Hong, J Langevin, K Sun - Building simulation, 2018 - Springer
Buildings consume more than one-third of the world's primary energy. Reducing energy use
and greenhouse-gas emissions in the buildings sector through energy conservation and …

Building occupancy forecasting: A systematical and critical review

Y **, D Yan, A Chong, B Dong, J An - Energy and buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

The role of occupants in buildings' energy performance gap: myth or reality?

A Mahdavi, C Berger, H Amin, E Ampatzi, RK Andersen… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Buildings' expected (projected, simulated) energy use frequently does not match actual
observations. This is commonly referred to as the energy performance gap. As such, many …

Building energy model calibration: A review of the state of the art in approaches, methods, and tools

O Vera-Piazzini, M Scarpa - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Building energy simulations can be effective in the real world only if the building energy
model is appropriately tuned, ie, calibrated. Whatever the purpose, from detailed energy …

A systematic review and comprehensive analysis of building occupancy prediction

T Li, X Liu, G Li, X Wang, J Ma, C Xu, Q Mao - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2024 - Elsevier
Buildings account for a significant portion of the global energy consumption. Forecasting
personnel occupancy is critical for reducing energy consumption in buildings. This study …

Economic modelling of electricity generation: Long short-term memory and Q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets

J An, A Mikhaylov, H Dinçer, S Yüksel - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
The main goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of population mobility on electricity
generation in Russian cities in the conditions of the spread of COVID-19, and identify …

Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology

W Wang, J Chen, T Hong, N Zhu - Building and Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate occupancy prediction can improve facility control and energy efficiency of
buildings. In recent years, buildings' exiting WiFi infrastructures have been widely studied in …

Improving residential building energy simulations through occupancy data derived from commercial off-the-shelf Wi-Fi sensing technology

SS Abolhassani, A Zandifar, N Ghourchian… - Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the main required actions for moving forward in zero-carbon cities' mission is to
increase building energy efficiency. Building energy simulations are key tools for HVAC …