Improving energy efficiency through activity-aware control of office appliances using proximity sensing-A real-life study

2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 664-669

  Jaramillo, Paola ^a   Amft, Oliver ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

activity recognition; energy conservation; office buildings; ultrasound rangers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ENERGY-SAVING BENEFITS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; ON-LINE PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTER CONTROL;

EID: 84881508708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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