PreHeat: Controlling home heating using occupancy prediction

UbiComp'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 281-290

  Scott, James ^a   Brush, A J Bernheim ^b   Krumm, John ^b   Meyers, Brian ^b   Hazas, Michael ^c   Hodges, Stephen ^a   Villar, Nicolas ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

energy; environment; home heating; prediction; sensing

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED HEATING; ENERGY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENT; GAS CONSUMPTION; HEAT HOMES; HOME HEATING; MAJOR FACTORS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SENSING; STATIC PROGRAM;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HEATING;

EID: 80054085323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2030112.2030151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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