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ThermoSense: thermal array sensor networks in building management

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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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SenSys '13: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
November 2013
443 pages
ISBN:9781450320276
DOI:10.1145/2517351
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