Occupancy-based heating control for residential buildings using environmental sensors

Authors:
Dominic Wörner;Thomas von Bomhard;Felix Wortmann
Affiliations:
Dep. of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich;Institute of Technology Management, University of St. Gallen;Institute of Technology Management, University of St. Gallen
Venue:
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Large amounts of energy is wasted in residential buildings because the heating runs round-the-clock although residents are out of home for certain times of a day. It is therefore our aim to develop a retrofit solution for dwellings that automatically detects occupancy and controls the heating accordingly. We demonstrate that consumer-oriented indoor-environmental sensors can be leveraged to infer occupancy and describe a occupancy-based heating control system on a per-room level. Furthermore, we sketch two forthcoming studies to evaluate our system in a real-world apartment.