{"title":"Colloidal Luminaries for Architectural Lighting","authors":"Nina M. Lutz, V. Bove","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3361014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361014","url":null,"abstract":"Despite advances in modern architectural technology, the overarching design and principle behind architectural lighting has remained unchanged for centuries. In the current process, individually illuminated fixtures are strategically placed in order to illuminate a space. This system, while enjoyed throughout the modern world, has drawbacks in terms of electrical infrastructure and maintenance points. In this demonstration we present an alternative methodology by using light sources that illuminate multiple fixtures, which can be reliably fine tuned in color and illumination amounts. This model is shown here in small scale prototypes, along with preliminary simulations to predict lux (lumens/meter) measurements. This proposal promises a radically new way to think about architectural lighting design.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130385729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gaëlle Faure, T. Christiaanse, R. Evins, Gaby M. Baasch
{"title":"BESOS","authors":"Gaëlle Faure, T. Christiaanse, R. Evins, Gaby M. Baasch","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360995","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous software modelling tools and design techniques exist to answer questions related to optimal or exploration of building and energy system design. Current research requires that these tools and techniques are combined, leading to the energy- and time-consuming task of linking them. Our demo presents BESOS, a platform designed to facilitate the interaction of several commonly-used tools to analyze and design building and energy systems. This platform is cloud-based and open-source, making it widely available for the research community. Attendees will be able to run and modify two test example applications during the demo, the first one focusing on constructing a surrogate model that predicts building energy demand, the second, optimally designing an energy system for a remote community.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117237905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring Electric Grid Reliability Using Satellite Data","authors":"Zeal Shah, Jay Taneja","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3361010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129165244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, R. Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo C. M. Meira, Oliver Parson
{"title":"A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK","authors":"Nipun Batra, Rithwik Kukunuri, Ayush Pandey, Raktim Malakar, R. Kumar, Odysseas Krystalakos, Mingjun Zhong, Paulo C. M. Meira, Oliver Parson","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360999","url":null,"abstract":"Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation involves separating the household energy measured at the aggregate level into constituent appliances. The NILM toolkit (NILMTK) was introduced in 2014 towards making NILM research reproducible. NILMTK has served as the reference library for data set parsers and reference benchmark algorithm implementations. However, few publications presenting algorithmic contributions within the field went on to contribute implementations back to the toolkit. This work presents a demonstration of a new version of NILMTK [2] which has a rewrite of the disaggregation API and a new experiment API which lower the barrier to entry for algorithm developers and simplify the definition of algorithm comparison experiments. This demo also marks the release of NILMTK-contrib: a new repository containing NILMTK-compatible implementations of 3 benchmarks and 9 recent disaggregation algorithms. The demonstration covers an extensive empirical evaluation using a number of publicly available data sets across three important experiment scenarios to showcase the ease of performing reproducible research in NILMTK.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117142010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peak Demand Reduction using Energy Storage System for Demand Response","authors":"Hannie Zang, Sunyong Kim, D. Kang, Hyuk Lim","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360988","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an energy storage system (ESS) management algorithm to reduce the peak electricity consumption for demand response (DR). In a building equipped with an ESS and a photovoltaic generator, the amount of energy charged into the ESS can be used to reduce the peak demand of the following day. The proposed algorithm calculates the feasible amount of peak demand reduction using the information about the amount of net energy demand and the energy charged in ESS, and provides the ESS charging and discharging schedule that can achieve the maximum reduction of the peak demand for DR requests. To examine the performance of the proposed algorithm, a case study was conducted using real-life data measured within a campus building.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125459079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dhrubojyoti Roy, S. Srivastava, Pranshu Jain, Aditya Kusupati, M. Varma, A. Arora
{"title":"Lightweight, Deep RNNs for Radar Classification","authors":"Dhrubojyoti Roy, S. Srivastava, Pranshu Jain, Aditya Kusupati, M. Varma, A. Arora","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3361000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361000","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate Multi-Scale, Cascaded RNN (MSC-RNN)1, an energy-efficient recurrent neural network for real-time micro-power radar classification. Its two-tier architecture is jointly trained to reject clutter and discriminate displacing sources at different time-scales, with a lighter lower tier running continuously and a heavier upper tier invoked infrequently on an on-demand basis. It offers for single microcontroller devices a better trade-off in accuracy and efficiency, as well as in clutter suppression and detectability, over competitive shallow and deep alternatives.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"422 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126713753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generative Interior Design using BIM","authors":"C. Sydora, Eleni Stroulia","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360997","url":null,"abstract":"Computational methods for automatically generating multiple valid alternative solutions to design problems offer the potential for creativity and innovation, by efficiently creating a potentially much larger number of alternatives, among which to select the design that best suits a variety of criteria. In this paper, we present our work on a particular instance of the general generative-design problem, namely the task of generating 3D kitchen layouts, based on a BIM model of the kitchen space, a product catalog of 3D models of kitchen furnishings, and a set of kitchen design rules. Our generative-design method starts with an empty kitchen and implements a heuristic search of the solution space by incrementally selecting and placing a required item and checking the degree to which the resulting model complies with the given kitchen design rules. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of our method by comparing the designs it produces against a set of real-world kitchen examples, obtained from architecture diagrams available online.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134166978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Class-Balancing Human Comfort Datasets with GANs","authors":"Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3361016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361016","url":null,"abstract":"Human comfort datasets are widely used in smart buildings. From thermal comfort prediction to personalized indoor environments, labelled subjective responses from participants in an experiment are required to feed different machine learning models. However, many of these datasets are small in samples per participants, number of participants, or suffer from a class-imbalance of its subjective responses. In this work we explore the use of Generative Adversarial Networks to generate synthetic samples to be used in combination with real ones for data-driven applications in the built environment.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133328117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a clustering-based morning start time estimation algorithm for space heating and cooling","authors":"Burak Gunay, Zixiao Shi, Araz Ashouri, G. Newsham","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360840","url":null,"abstract":"The morning start time of heating and cooling equipment plays an important role in the energy and comfort performance of buildings. Existing algorithms to guide this decision require either many data types with a consistent labelling nomenclature or a detailed calibrated model. In this paper, a model-free clustering-based morning start time estimation algorithm is put forward. The algorithm inputs only four types of data: indoor and outdoor temperatures, and heating and cooling energy use, and does not require any information regarding the location of the temperature sensors. The algorithm consists of four steps. The first one employs clustering to form groups of zones with a similar temperature response. The second one searches for inflection points to identify cluster temperature change rates during morning start-up periods. The third one determines the start time based on previous morning start-up temperature change rates. The last one estimates the energy savings potential by using bivariate change point models. The algorithm was developed by using a dataset from a large office building. Through hierarchical clustering, the data from 142 temperature sensors were consolidated to only seven clusters. The median morning start-up temperature change rates in individual clusters were between 0.3°C/h and 0.8°C/h for heating, and between -0.5°C/h and -1.2°C/h for cooling. The savings potential by tuning daily start times based on this information was estimated as 3% and 7% for heating and cooling, respectively.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133370989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating occupancy profiles using convolutional neural networks","authors":"J. Park, Jianli Chen, Xin Jin, Z. Nagy","doi":"10.1145/3360322.3360989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360989","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we implement a convolutional neural networks (CNN) based autoencoder to investigate occupancy profiles. We use the American time use survey (ATUS) data, which contains 191,558 schedules with binary occupancy information. Our results suggest that the trained filters provide an important insight of occupancy profiles (i.e., dominant and distinct patterns), and the latent space compresses the profiles with representative information.","PeriodicalId":128826,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116088747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}