Design of rule model for building energy efficiency base on user occupancy and spatial features

Abstract

Due to energy shortage and energy price increase, many researchers have been working on improving energy use efficiency using information and communication technology. In most of these studies, however, energy management and saving is performed by detecting a user's particular situation with sensors and then applying the rules predefined. This style of energy saving and management using static rules would improve energy use efficiency, but also decrease user comfort level at the same time. Because energy use pattern depends strongly on changes in human behavior, the rules for managing energy use should be dynamically updated. In this paper, we first define spatial properties and propose a rule model where rules could be dynamically updated according to user feedback and applied to various situations. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.