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CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Activity Summarisation and Fall Detection in a Supportive Home Environment
ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 4 - Volume 04
RFID-based techniques for human-activity detection
Communications of the ACM - Special issue: RFID
Accurate activity recognition in a home setting
UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
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UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
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HydroSense: infrastructure-mediated single-point sensing of whole-home water activity
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
The self-programming thermostat: optimizing setback schedules based on home occupancy patterns
Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
User-sensitive scheduling of home appliances
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking
Hardware design in smart home applications: rapid prototyping and embedded systems
ICOST'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities: smart homes and health telematics
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
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Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
SenShare: transforming sensor networks into multi-application sensing infrastructures
EWSN'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
Defining CPS Challenges in a Sustainable Electricity Grid
ICCPS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM Third International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Thermovote: participatory sensing for efficient building HVAC conditioning
BuildSys '12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
EarlyOff: using house cooling rates to save energy
BuildSys '12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
BuildSys '12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Active actuator fault detection and diagnostics in HVAC systems
BuildSys '12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Zone-level occupancy counting with existing infrastructure
BuildSys '12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Exploiting home automation protocols for load monitoring in smart buildings
Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Managing plug-loads for demand response within buildings
Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
POEM: power-efficient occupancy-based energy management system
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
BOSS: building operating system services
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
SPOT: a smart personalized office thermal control system
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
TherML: occupancy prediction for thermostat control
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Understanding adaptive thermal comfort: new directions for UbiComp
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Non-Intrusive Occupancy Monitoring using Smart Meters
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
Occupancy Detection from Electricity Consumption Data
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
ThermoSense: Occupancy Thermal Based Sensing for HVAC Control
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
A study towards applying thermal inertia for energy conservation in rooms
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
TOSS: Thermal Occupancy Sensing System
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
Connecting and Managing M2M Devices in the Future Internet
Mobile Networks and Applications
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Heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) is the largest source of residential energy consumption. In this paper, we demonstrate how to use cheap and simple sensing technology to automatically sense occupancy and sleep patterns in a home, and how to use these patterns to save energy by automatically turning off the home's HVAC system. We call this approach the smart thermostat. We evaluate this approach by deploying sensors in 8 homes and comparing the expected energy usage of our algorithm against existing approaches. We demonstrate that our approach will achieve a 28% energy saving on average, at a cost of approximately $25 in sensors. In comparison, a commercially-available baseline approach that uses similar sensors saves only 6.8% energy on average, and actually increases energy consumption in 4 of the 8 households.