Linking Building Energy-Load Variations with Occupants' Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings: Non-Intrusive Occupant Load Monitoring (NIOLM)

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 532-539

  Rafsanjani, Hamed Nabizadeh ^a   Ahn, Changbum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial buildings; Energy consumption; Non intrusive approach; Occupant energy use behavior; Profiling energy use behavior

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; CURRENT BEHAVIORS; DATA AVAILABILITY; ENERGY USE; ENERGY USE PATTERNS; NON-INTRUSIVE APPROACH; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84999791292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.04.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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