Rethinking the role of occupant behavior in building energy performance: A review

Y Zhang, X Bai, FP Mills, JCV Pezzey - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Technology alone will not achieve building energy conservation goals, and humans and
their energy-related behavior in buildings must be included in energy performance efforts …

Modeling occupant behavior in buildings

S Carlucci, M De Simone, SK Firth, MB Kjærgaard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art review of occupant behavior modeling and implementation in building performance simulation

O Ahmed, N Sezer, M Ouf, LL Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

Modeling occupancy and behavior for better building design and operation—A critical review

B Dong, D Yan, Z Li, Y Jin, X Feng, H Fontenot - Building Simulation, 2018 - Springer
People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior
one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …

A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection

L Rueda, K Agbossou, A Cardenas, N Henao… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Detailed occupancy information in buildings is useful to improve the performance of energy
management systems in order to enable energy consumption savings and maintain …

Data analytics to improve building performance: A critical review

HB Gunay, W Shen, G Newsham - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
The data inherent in building automation systems, computerized maintenance management
systems, security and access control systems, and IT networks represent an untapped …

A state of art review on methodologies of occupancy estimating in buildings from 2011 to 2021

L Zhao, Y Li, R Liang, P Wang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Occupancy information is important to building facility managers in terms of building energy
efficiency, indoor environmental quality, comfort conditions, and safety management of …

Sensitivity analysis and optimization of building operations

HB Gunay, M Ouf, G Newsham, W O'Brien - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Operator decisions regarding daily and seasonal scheduling of systems' availability and
setpoints play an important role in building performance. This paper reviews the key …

Current practices and infrastructure for open data based research on occupant-centric design and operation of buildings

MB Kjærgaard, O Ardakanian, S Carlucci, B Dong… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many new tools for improving the design and operation of buildings try to realize the
potential of big data. In particular, data is an important element for occupant-centric design …

Scalable room occupancy prediction with deep transfer learning using indoor climate sensor

D Stjelja, J Jokisalo, R Kosonen - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
An important instrument for achieving smart and high-performance buildings is Machine
Learning (ML). A lot of research has been done in exploring the ML models for various …