A review of approaches for sensing, understanding, and improving occupancy-related energy-use behaviors in commercial buildings

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10996-11029

  Rafsanjani, Hamed Nabizadeh ^a   Ahn, Changbum R ^a   Alahmad, Mahmoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial building; Energy consumption; Occupancy related approaches; Occupant energy use behavior; Review

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; REVIEWS;

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; ENERGY USE; ENERGY USE CHARACTERISTICS; NON-INTRUSIVE LOAD-MONITORING TECHNIQUES; OCCUPANCY RELATED APPROACHES; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 84946047991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en81010996     Document Type: Review

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