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BuildSys 2012 Program

November 6, 2012

7:00-8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:00-8:10 Welcome :: Opening remarks by the chair

Session: Behavior

Session Chair: TBD

8:10-8:30

1.1

Toward Adaptive Comfort Management in Office Buildings Using Participatory Sensing for End User Driven Control

8:30-8:35

Q&A + Transition

8:35-8:55

1.2

Thermovote: Participatory Sensing for Efficient Building HVAC Conditioning

8:55-9:00

Q&A + Transition

9:00-9:20

1.3

Effect of Social Network Type on Building Occupant Energy Use

9:20-9:25

Q&A + Transition

9:25-9:45

1.4

Building the Case For Automated Building Energy Management

9:45-9:50

Q&A + Transition

9:50-10:00

"1-Min Madness"

1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos

1.5P

Weather-Clustering Based Strategy Design for Dynamic Demand Response Building HVAC Control (Short Paper)

1.6P

Smart Energy Case Study (Short Paper)

1.7P

EarlyOff: Using House Cooling Rates To Save Energy (Short Paper)

1.8P

Towards real-time, fined-grained energy analytics in buildings through mobile phones (Short Paper)

1.9P

Risk-sensitive Plan Execution for Connected Sustainable Home

1.10P

Low-cost Appliance State Sensing for Energy Disaggregation (Short Paper)

1.11P

Minimizing Intrusiveness in Home Energy Measurement

10:00-10:30 Refreshment Break

Session: Software

Session Chair: Kamin Whitehouse (U. Virginia)

10:30-10:50

2.1

BuildingDepot: An Extensible and Distributed Architecture for Building Data Storage, Access and Sharing

10:55-10:55

Q&A + Transition

10:55-11:15

2.2

Building Application Stack (BAS)

11:15-11:20

Q&A + Transition

11:25-11:45

2.3

SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management

11:45-11:50

Q&A + Transition

11:50-12:05

"1-Min Madness"

1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos

2.4P

A Methodology for Sensor Modeling and Placement Optimization to Support Temperature Monitoring (Short Paper)

2.5P

Hot Water DJ: Saving Energy by Pre-mixing Hot Water

2.6P

Semi-Automated Modular Modeling of Buildings for Model Predictive Control

2.7P

Active Actuator Fault Detection and Diagnostics in HVAC Systems

2.8P

Accurate Real-Time Occupant Energy-Footprinting in Commercial Buildings

2.9P

MLE+: A Tool for Integrated Design and Deployment of Energy Efficient Building Controls

2.10D

Demo Abstract: Scalable Load Disaggregation System Using Distributed Electrical Signature Detection

2.11D

Demo Abstract: Holistic Energy Consumption Monitoring in Buildings with IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks

2.12D

Demo Abstract: A Wi-Fi Based Occupancy Sensing Approach to Smart Energy in Commercial Office Buildings

12:05-13:00 Lunch

Session: Communication

Session Chair: Fred Jiang (Intel)

13:00-13:20

3.1

ConcreteCom: A New Communication Paradigm for Building Structural Health Monitoring

13:20-13:25

Q&A + Transition

13:25-13:45

3.2

Designing Cost-Efficient Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks for Building Control Systems

13:45-13:50

Q&A + Transition

13:50-14:05

"1-Min Madness"

1-slide 1-minute "sales pitch" presentations on posters and demos

3.3D

Demo Abstract: Social Learning SoftThermostat for Commercial Buildings

3.4D

Demo Abstract: An Adaptive Smart Lighting System

3.5D

Demo Abstract: TWIST Actu - A RESTful Testbed Platform for Remote Experimentation With Building Automation Sensors and Actuators

3.6D

Demo Abstract: Zone-level Occupancy Counting with Existing Infrastructure

3.7D

Demo Abstract: Dynamic Resource Look-up and Discovery Architecture for Indoor Location-based Service

3.8D

Demo Abstract: Acomni: An Alternative Smart Thermostat Interface to Aid End Users to Visualize Energy and Cost Tradeoffs

3.9D

Demo Abstract: A Scalable Low-Cost Solution to Provide Personalized Home Heating Advice to Households

3.10D

Demo Abstract: Augmenting homes with custom devices using .NET Gadgeteer and HomeOS

3.11D

Demo Abstract: MLE+: A Tool for Integrated Design and Deployment of Energy Efficient Building Controls

14:05-15:30 Posters + Demos + Refreshment Breaks :: 14 Posters (8 full papers, 6 short papers), 13 Demos

Session: Control

Session Chair: Alan Marchiori (UTRC)

15:30-15:50

4.1

An Integrated Performance Analysis Framework for HVAC Systems Using Heterogeneous Data Models and Building Automation Systems

15:50-15:55

Q&A + Transition

15:55-16:15

4.2

A Finite State Machine-based Characterization of Building Entities for Monitoring and Control

16:15-16:20

Q&A + Transition

16:20-16:40

4.3

Energy-Aware Meeting Scheduling Algorithms for Smart Buildings

16:40-16:45

Q&A + Transition

16:45-17:00 Bio Break

Session: Modeling and Sensing

Session Chair: Dane Christensen (NREL)

17:00-17:20

5.1

Towards Automatic Classification of Private Households Using Electricity Consumption Data

17:20-17:25

Q&A + Transition

17:25-17:45

5.2

Creating a Room Connectivity Graph of a Building from Per-Room Sensor Units

17:45-17:50

Q&A + Transition

17:50-18:10

5.3

Lies, Damn lies and Preferences; a Gaussian Process Model for Ubiqutious Thermal Preference Trials

18:10-18:15

Q&A + Transition

18:15-18:30 Closing Award Presentations, Wrap up comments

BuildSys 2012

4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems

For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings

Toronto, Canada

November 6, 2012

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