English
Related papers

Related papers: Analysis and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors Data…

200 papers

With the press of global climate change, extreme weather and sudden weather changes are becoming increasingly common. To maintain a comfortable indoor environment and minimize the contribution of the building to climate change as much as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Liping Sun , Yucheng Guo , Siliang Lu , Zhenzhen Li

Buildings form an essential part of modern life; people spend a significant amount of their time in them, and they consume large amounts of energy. A variety of systems provide services such as lighting, air conditioning and security which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-12-31 Bharathan Balaji , Nadir Weibel , Yuvraj Agarwal

Buildings consume over 40% of the total energy in modern societies, and improving their energy efficiency can significantly reduce our energy footprint. In this paper, we present \texttt{WattScale}, a data-driven approach to identify the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Srinivasan Iyengar , Stephen Lee , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy , Benjamin Weil

We propose in this paper to study the energy-, thermal- and performance-aware resource management in heterogeneous datacenters. Witnessing the continuous development of heterogeneity in datacenters, we are confronted with their different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Hongyang Sun , Patricia Stolf , Jean-Marc Pierson , Georges Da Costa

This report considers the class of applications of sensor networks in which each sensor node makes measurements, such as temperature or humidity, at the precise location of the node. Such spot-sensing applications approximate the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-26 Xiaoyu Chu , Harish Sethu

Rapid advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) have facilitated more efficient deployment of smart environment solutions for specific user requirement. With the increase in the number of IoT devices, it has become difficult for the user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Mudit Verma , Siddhant Bhambri , Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru

A number of governments and organizations around the world agree that the first step to address national and international problems such as energy independence, global warming or emergency resilience, is the redesign of electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Marıa Arenas-Martınez , Sergio Herrero-Lopez , Abel Sanchez , John R. Williams , Paul Roth , Paul Hofmann , Alexander Zeier

Research on energy efficiency of today's buildings focuses on the monitoring of a building's behavior while in operation. But without a formalized description of the data measured, including their correlations and in particular the expected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-09 M. Norbert Fisch , Markus Look , Claas Pinkernell , Stefan Plesser , Bernhard Rumpe

This paper addresses the use of smart-home sensor streams for continuous prediction of energy loads of individual households which participate as an agent in local markets. We introduces a new device level energy consumption dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Christoph Doblander , Martin Strohbach , Holger Ziekow , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Enabling deep penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) requires comprehensive monitoring and control of the distribution network. Increasing observability beyond the substation and extending it to the edge of the grid is required…

The development of current building energy system operation has benefited from: 1. Informational support from the optimal design through simulation or first-principles models; 2. System load and energy prediction through machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Xia Chen , Xiaoye Cai , Alexander Kümpel , Dirk Müller , Philipp Geyer

Energy systems generate vast amounts of data in extremely short time intervals, creating challenges for efficient data management. Traditional data management methods often struggle with scalability and accessibility, limiting their…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lunodzo J. Mwinuka , Massimo Cafaro , Lucas Pereira , Hugo Morais

Before a building can participate in a demand response program, its facility managers must characterize the site's ability to reduce load. Today, this is often done through manual audit processes and prototypical control strategies. In this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Deokwoo Jung , Varun Badrinath Krishna , William Temple , David K. Y. Yau

The Internet of Things (IoT) has important applications in our daily lives including health and fitness tracking, environmental monitoring and transportation. However, sensor nodes in IoT suffer from the limited lifetime of batteries…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Muhammad Moid Sandhu , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Marius Portmann

Context: Information Technology consumes up to 10\% of the world's electricity generation, contributing to CO2 emissions and high energy costs. Data centers, particularly databases, use up to 23% of this energy. Therefore, building an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Andriy V. Miranskyy , Zainab Al-zanbouri , David Godwin , Ayse Basar Bener

Due to recent advancements in machine learning, recommender systems use increasingly more energy for training, evaluation, and deployment. However, the recommender systems community often does not report the energy consumption of their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Lukas Wegmeth , Tobias Vente , Alan Said , Joeran Beel

Due to growing population and technological advances, global electricity consumption, and consequently also CO2 emissions are increasing. The residential sector makes up 25% of global electricity consumption and has great potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vid Hanžel , Blaž Bertalanič , Carolina Fortuna

Smart meters are increasingly used worldwide. Smart meters are the advanced meters capable of measuring energy consumption at a fine-grained time interval, e.g., every 15 minutes. Smart meter data are typically bundled with social economic…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Xiufeng Liu , Per Sieverts Nielsen

The paper describes a dataset comprising indoor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and noise levels. The data was collected from 10 sensing devices installed in various locations within three single-family…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Sheik Murad Hassan Anik , Xinghua Gao , Na Meng

Smart grids technologies are enablers of new business models for domestic consumers with local flexibility (generation, loads, storage) and where access to data is a key requirement in the value stream. However, legislation on personal data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Ricardo J. Bessa , David Rua , Cláudia Abreu , Paulo Machado , José R. Andrade , Rui Pinto , Carla Gonçalves , Marisa Reis