Ontology-based office activity recognition with applications for energy savings

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 667-681

  Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^a   Raspitzu, Andrea ^b   Aiello, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Energy saving buildings; Ontological reasoning

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVITY INFORMATIONS; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; BUILDING ENERGY; COMFORT MANAGEMENT; ENERGY-SAVING BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGICAL REASONING; PRESENCE/ABSENCE;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84907696759     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-013-0206-7     Document Type: Article

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