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in Smart Buildings
1 Introduction
Designing new green buildings and retrotting existing buildings with green
technologies pose numerous research challenges but essential for society. Two of
the main motivations for this transition towards a smarter and greener electricity
grid have been capping total usage or attening the peak and reducing the
carbon footprint and costs. This has sparked new interest in developing smarter
The authors would like to thank DeitY, Govt. of India and TCS for their generous
support of this work.
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Table 1. Approaches to tracking occupancy using various sensors and their fusion
Occupancy
Sensor Advantages Disadvantages
Information
Cheap;
When users become station-
Passive Scalable; RT Re- Presence of oc-
ary (eg., working on PC) room
Infra Red sponse; No cupants in room
occupancy detected as NIL
User Intervention
Computationally challenging;
Expensive; Accuracy is less
Face No user Interven- for moving objects; Not eas- Count and iden-
Recognition
tion required ily scalable; Requires 2 cam- tity
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eras to detect Entry and Exit