A sensor-utility-network method for estimation of occupancy in buildings

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1494-1500

  Meyn, Sean ^a   Surana, Amit ^b   Lin, Yiqing ^b   Oggianu, Stella M ^b   Narayanan, Satish ^b   Frewen, Thomas A ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING ENVIRONMENT; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; RECEDING HORIZON; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR UTILITIES; STATE OF THE ART;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77950822310     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2009.5400442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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