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Inferring occupant ties: Automated inference of occupant network structure in commercial buildings

Sonta, Andrew James  orcid-logo
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Jain, Rishee K.
2018
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments
5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys '18)

To design and manage office buildings that are both energy-efficient and productive work environments, we need a better understanding of the relationship between building and occupant systems. Past data-driven building research has focused on energy efficiency and occupant comfort, but little work has used building sensor data to understand occupant organizational behavior and dynamics in buildings. In this initial work, we present a methodology for using distributed plug load energy consumption sensors to infer the social/organizational network of occupants (i.e., the relationships among occupants in a building). We demonstrate how plug load data can be used to model activities, and we introduce how statistical methods—in particular, the graphical lasso and the influence model—can be used to learn network structure from time-series activity data. We apply our method to a seven-person office environment in Northern California, and we compare the inferred networks to ground truth spatial, social, and organizational networks obtained through validated survey questions. In the end, a better understanding of how occupants organize and utilize spaces could enable more contextual control and co-optimization of building-human systems.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3276774.3276779
Author(s)
Sonta, Andrew James  orcid-logo
Jain, Rishee K.
Date Issued

2018

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments
ISBN of the book

978-1-450359-51-1

Series title/Series vol.

BuildSys '18

Start page

126

End page

129

Subjects

Social networks

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Network inference

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Organizational theory

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Building management

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Energy efficiency

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (BuildSys '18)

Shenzhen, China

November 7-8, 2018

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November 18, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/192317
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