Sensor-Based Early Activity Recognition Inside Buildings to Support Energy and Comfort Management Systems

Abstract

Building Energy and Comfort Management (BECM) systems have the potential to considerably reduce costs related to energy consumption and improve the efficiency of resource exploitation, by implementing strategies for resource management and control and policies for Demand-Side Management (DSM). One of the main requirements for such systems is to be able to adapt their management decisions to the users’ specific habits and preferences, even when they change over time. This feature is fundamental to prevent users’ disaffection and the gradual abandonment of the system. In this paper, a sensor-based system for analysis of user habits and early detection and prediction of user activities is presented. To improve the resulting accuracy, the system incorporates statistics related to other relevant external conditions that have been observed to be correlated (e.g., time of the day). Performance evaluation on a real use case proves that the proposed system enables early recognition of activities after only 10 sensor events with an accuracy of 81 % . Furthermore, the correlation between activities can be used to predict the next activity with an accuracy of about 60 % .

Revista de la Universidad del Zulia, Volumen 12, Número 32

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Special Issue on Advanced Approaches, Business Models, and Novel Techniques for Management and Control of Smart Grids

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“…These systems have a high potential to decrease energy consumption costs as well as to enhance the efficiency of resource exploitation, by implementing strategies and policies for resource control and demand side management. In order to prevent users' disaffection and the gradual abandonment of the system, reference [4] has developed a sensor-based system for the analysis of users' habits and the early detection and prediction of user activities.…”