Wireless, collaborative virtual sensors for thermal comfort

BuildSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-84

  Ploennigs, Joern ^a   Hensel, Burkhard ^a   Kabitzsch, Klaus ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Collaborative sensor networks; Thermal comfort; Virtual sensors

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; COLLABORATIVE NETWORK; COLLABORATIVE SENSOR NETWORKS; EXISTING BUILDING; INSTALLATION COSTS; SENSOR DATA; VIRTUAL SENSOR;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INSTALLATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; THERMAL COMFORT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78650913528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878431.1878449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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