How to monitor people 'smartly' to help reducing energy consumption in buildings?

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 60-78

  Spataru, Catalina ^a   Gauthier, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

energy demand reduction; non intrusive monitoring system; occupancy patterns; user location and tracking

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DEMANDS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; NON-INTRUSIVE METHOD; NON-INTRUSIVE MONITORING; OCCUPANCY PATTERNS; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY; USER LOCATION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84887929106     PISSN: 17452007     EISSN: 17527589     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2013.837248     Document Type: Review

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