Full-Automated Acquisition System for Occupancy and Energy Measurement Data Extraction

摘要

There is an ongoing research on reconciling the difference between predicted/simulated and actual energy consumption in buildings (either in design or in operational phase). In this paper a fully automated acquisition system for occupancy and energy measurement data is going to be presented. The proposed system comprises a depth camera cloud and RFID for occupancy extraction, a network of CO_2 and temperature sensors and separate energy meters for HVAC, lighting, wall sockets and equipment. The extracted occupancy and energy consumption measurements of the proposed system could be utilized in a variety of applications, such as real-time control strategies, performance simulation analysis, high semantic occupancy and energy consumption information extraction, even business processes analysis and simulation. The proposed system has been evaluated to a large scale experiment, and its accuracy and robustness will prove its significance to the occupancy simulation processes, as well as to any kind of application that exploits occupancy.