The smart thermostat: Using occupancy sensors to save energy in homes

SenSys 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 211-224

  Lu, Jiakang ^a   Sookoor, Tamim ^a   Srinivasan, Vijay ^a   Gao, Ge ^a   Holben, Brian ^a   Stankovic, John ^a   Field, Eric ^b   Whitehouse, Kamin ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy; Home monitoring; Programmable thermostats; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEATING; HOME NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; THERMOSTATS;

BUILDING ENERGY; HEATING VENTILATION; HOME MONITORING; OCCUPANCY SENSORS; PROGRAMMABLE THERMOSTATS; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SAVE ENERGY; SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SIMPLE++; SLEEP PATTERN;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78650887172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1869983.1870005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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