Brick: Metadata schema for portable smart building applications

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao, J Gluck… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 32% of worldwide energy usage. A new regime of exciting new
“applications” that span a distributed fabric of sensors, actuators and humans has emerged …

Brick: Towards a unified metadata schema for buildings

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings have long since been a primary target for applications from a number
of areas: from cyber-physical systems to building energy use to improved human …

[PDF][PDF] Design of an effective ontology and query processor enabling portable building applications

G Fierro - … Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of …, 2019 - gtf.fyi
The US Department of Energy reports that commercial buildings constituted 47% of all
energy consumed in the US in 2017 [107]. On average, 30% of this energy is wasted [34] …

Addressing behavioural technologies through the human factor: A review

A Irizar-Arrieta, O Gómez-Carmona… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficiency related research has reached a growing interest in recent years due to the
imminent scarcity of non-renewable resources in our environment and the impending …

Automated metadata construction to support portable building applications

AA Bhattacharya, D Hong, D Culler, J Ortiz… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings consume nearly 19\% of delivered energy in the US, nearly half (42%)
of which is consumed in buildings with digital control systems comprised of wired sensor …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Enabling scalable smart-building analytics

A Bhattacharya - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Modern buildings are being integrated with myriad (often> 1000s) networked sensors to
improve convenience, occupant comfort accessibility and energy-efficient operations. These …

Short paper: Analyzing metadata schemas for buildings: The good, the bad, and the ugly

A Bhattacharya, J Ploennigs, D Culler - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings account for a large amount of delivered energy in the US, nearly 42%
of which is consumed in buildings with digital control systems {EIA}. These buildings are a …

An opportunistic activity-sensing approach to save energy in office buildings

M Milenkovic, O Amft - … of the fourth international conference on Future …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we recognised office worker activities that are relevant for energy-related control
of appliances and building systems using sensors that are commonly installed in new or …

Beyond a house of sticks: Formalizing metadata tags with brick

G Fierro, J Koh, Y Agarwal, RK Gupta… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Current efforts establishing semantic metadata standards for the built environment span
academia [3], industry [1] and standards bodies [2, 28]. For these standards to be effective …

Toward a comprehensive dimensional model of sustainable behaviors

CJ Hopwood, MR Lenhausen, W Bleidorn - Environment, Development …, 2023 - Springer
The goal of this study was to identify the underlying latent dimensions that account for
variation in sustainable behaviors (SBs) among American adults. Our strategy was to assess …