Final Conference Program

• Keynote Talk (joint with SenSys)
  George R Hernandez (PNNL and US DOE)
  Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Transactions

Monitoring and Imaging, Indoors and Out

• Feasibility and Limits of Wi-Fi Imaging
  Donny Huang, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Shyamnath Gollakota (University of Washington)
• A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Robust Indoor-Outdoor Detection with Smartphones
  Valentin Radu, Panagiota Katsikouli, Rik Sarkar, Mahesh K. Marina (University of Edinburgh)
• DSP.Ear: Leveraging Co-Processor Support for Continuous Audio Sensing on Smartphones
  Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge), Nicholas D. Lane (Microsoft Research), Kiran K. Rachuri (Samsung Research America, University of Cambridge), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

Occupancy Detection and Monitoring

• PresenceSense: Zero-training Algorithm for Individual Presence Detection based on Power Monitoring
  Ming jin, Ruoxi Jia, Zhaoyi Kang, Ioannis Konstantakopoulos, and Costas J. Spanos (UC Berkeley)
• BlueSentinel: a first approach using iBeacon for an energy efficient occupancy detection system
  Giorgio Conte, Massimo de Marchi, Alessandro Antonio Nacci, Vincenzo Rana, and Donatella Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano)
• Discerning Electrical and Water Fixture Usage by Individuals in Homes
  Juhi Ranjan, Erin Griffiths, and Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)

One-Minute Madness Presentations for Poster and Demo

• "sales pitch" presentations of 1-min, 1-slide for each demo and poster. To be presented in the order listed under the session "Demos and Poster"

Potpourri

• WattShare: Detailed Energy Apportionment in Shared Living Spaces within Commercial
  Shailja Thakur, Manaswi Saha, and Amarjeet Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) and Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)
• SolarCast – A Cloud-based Black Box Solar Predictor for Smart Homes
  Srinivasan Iyengar, Navin Sharma, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
• Data Driven Investigation of Faults in HVAC Systems with Model, Cluster and Compare (MCC)
  Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy, Bharathan Balaji, and Rajesh Gupta (CSE, UC San Diego) and Yuvraj Agarwal (SCS, CMU)

Demos and Posters + Social Mixer with Refreshments

• Distributed Control of a Swarm of Buildings Connected to a Smart Grid (Demo Abstract)
  Baris Aksanli and Alper S. Akyurek (University of California San Diego), Madhur Behl (University of Pennsylvania), Meghan Clark (University of Michigan), Alexandre Donze (University of California Berkeley), Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan), Patrick Lazik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mehdi Maasoumy (University of California-Berkeley), Rahul Mangharam and Truong X. Nghiem (University of Pennsylvania), Vasumathi Raman (California Institute of Technology), Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University), Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Sanjit Seshia (University of California Berkeley), and Tajana Simunic Rosing and Jagannathan Venkatesh (University of California San Diego)
• SolarCast – An Open Web Service for Predicting Solar Power Generation in Smart Homes Demo Abstract)
  Srinivasan Iyengar, Navin Sharma, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Krithi Ramamritham
• Contextual Information Retrieval for Google Glass (Demo Abstract)
  Joseph P. Kale, Alex Meijer, Daniel Prudente, Michael S. Thompson, and Alan Cheville (Bucknell University)
• Optimal Energy Incentive Design for Occupant-engaged Commercial Building Control (Demo Abstract)
  Zhen Song and Kun Ji (Siemens)
• A RestFUL API to control a Energy Plus smart grid-ready residential building (Demo Abstract)
  Fabiano Pallonetto (Electricity Research Center, University College Dublin), Dr Eleni Mangina (School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin), Dr. Donal Finn (Electricity Research Center, University College Dublin), and Fangyijie Wang and Apache Wang (School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin)
• NILMTK v0.2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets (Demo Abstract)
  Jack Kelly (Imperial College London), Nipun Batra (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India), Oliver Parson (University of Southampton), Haimonti Dutta (CCLS Columbia), William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London), Alex Rogers (University of Southampton), Amarjeet Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India), and Mani Srivastava (UCLA)
• QiLoc——A Qi-Wireless Based Platform for Robust User-Initiated Indoor Location Services (Demo Abstract)
  Yilong Li (Wuhan University of Technology), Yun Cheng and Xiucheng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Yu Wang and Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University), and Xiaofan Jiang (Intel Labs China)
• Model-Free Occupancy-Based Control of Variable-Air-Volume Terminal Boxes (Demo Abstract)
  Guopeng Liu, Yunzhi (Lucy) Huang, Siddharth Goyal, and Michael R. Brambley (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
• Flexhouse-2 – an open source building automation platform with a focus on flexible
  control (Demo Abstract)
  Oliver Gehrke, Anna Kosek, and Mathias Svendsen (Technical University of Denmark)
• An iBeacon Primer for Indoor Localization (Demo Abstract)
  Paul Martin and Bo-Jhang Ho (UCLA), Nicholas Grupen (Villanova University), Samuel Munoz (East Los Angeles College), and Mani Srivastava (UCLA)
• SPA: Smart meter Privacy Analyzer (Demo Abstract)
  Soma Bandyopadhay, Arijit Ukil, and Arpan Pal (TATA Consultancy Services)
• BEAD – Building Energy Asset Discovery Tool for Automating Smart Building Analytics (Demo Abstract)
  Joern Ploennigs, Bernard Gorman, Niall Brady, and Anika Schumann (IBM Research)
• Writing Scalable Building Efficiency Applications using Normalized Metadata (Demo Abstract)
  Arka Bhattacharya and David Culler (UC Berkeley), Dezhi Hong and Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia), and Jorge Ortiz (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)
• PLAID: a Public Dataset of High-Resolution Electrical Appliance Measurements for Load Identification Research (Demo Abstract)
  Jingkun Gao, Suman Giri, Emre Can Kara, and Mario Berges (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Automated Diagnostics for AHU-VAV Systems Using Pattern Matching (Demo Abstract)
  Adam Regnier, Jin Wen, and Jesse Schwakoff (Drexel University)
• BuildingSherlock: Fault Management Framework for HVAC Systems (Demo Abstract)
  Bharathan Balaji, Rizhen Zhang, Yan Zhang, and Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (University of California, San Diego) and Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Mortar.io: A Concrete Building Automation System (Demo Abstract)
  Christopher Palmer, Patrick Lazik, Maxim Buevich, Jingkun Gao, Mario Berges, and Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University), Ricardo Lopes Pereira (Instituto Superior Te 'cnico / INESC-ID), and Christopher Martin (Bosch Research and Technology Center)
• Estimating Human Interactions with Electrical Appliances for Activity-based Energy Savings Recommendations (Poster Abstract)
  Hông- n Cao (ETH Zurich) and Tri Kurniawan Wijaya and Karl Aberer (EPFL)
• The Transactional Network Platform (Poster Abstract)
  Jereme Haack, Srinivas Katipamula, Bora Akyol, Brandon Carpenter, Kyle Monson, Nathan Tenney, Robert Lute, Craig Allwardt, Poorva Sharma, and Timothy Kang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
• Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems (Poster Abstract)
  Nipun Batra, Manoj Gulati, and Puneet Jain (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia), and Amarjeet Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)
• Low Cost HVAC Systems for Energy Management in Developing Countries (Poster Abstract)
  Syed Aftab Rashid and Affan A. Syed (Department of Electrical Engineering National University of Computer and Emerging Science (NUCES), Islamabad,Pakistan)
• Applying Extended Kalman Filters to Adaptive Thermal Modelling in Homes (Poster Abstract)
  Muddasser Alam (Microsoft Research Cambridge, University of Southampton) and Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings, and James Scott (University of Southampton)
• Water or Slime? A platform for automating water treatment systems (Poster Abstract)
  Neil Klingensmith, Pete Chulick, Joe Bomber, and Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)
• EAir: An Energy Efficient Air Quality Management System in Residential Buildings Poster Abstract)
  Zhichuan Huang and Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• Occupant Engaged Fast Demand Responses for Commercial Buildings (Poster Abstract)
  Zhen Song, Xianjun Sam Zheng, and Sanjeev Srivastava (Siemens)
• SBD: A Signature-based Detection for Activities of Appliances (Poster Abstract)
  Zhichuan Huang and Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• Low Power and Low Cost Tide Gauge Sensor Node using a Long Distance Communication Technology -MAD-SS- (Poster Abstract)
  Norihisa Segawa and Jun Sawamoto (Iwate Prefectural University) and Masaaki Gokan and Masato Yazawa (Mathematical Assist Design Laboratory)
• Generating Home Energy Footprint by Assigning Fixture Usage to Individuals in Homes Poster Abstract)
  Juhi Ranjan and Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)

Load Monitoring and Disaggregation

• PowerPlay: Creating Virtual Power Meters through Online Load Tracking
  Sean Barker (Bowdoin College) and Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• An In Depth Study into Using EMI Signatures for Appliance Identification
  Manoj Gulati, Shobha Sundar Ram, and Amarjeet Singh (IIITD)
• The ECO Data Set and the Performance of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Algorithms
  Christian Beckel, Wilhelm Kleiminger, and Romano Cicchetti (ETH Zurich), Thorsten Staake (University of Bamberg), and Silvia Santini (TU Darmstadt)

Platforms for Embedded Systems

• Occupancy Monitoring using Environmental & Context Sensors and a Hierarchical Analysis Framework
  Aftab Khan, James Nicholson, Sebastian Mellor, Daniel Jackson, Karim Ladha, and Cassim Ladha (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom), Jon Hand and Joseph Clarke (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom), and Patrick Olivier and Thomas Ploetz (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon
  Tyne, United Kingdom)
• An Energy-Harvesting Sensor Architecture and Toolkit for Building Monitoring and Event Detection
  Bradford Campbell and Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan)
• Piloteur: A Lightweight Platform for Pilot Studies of Smart Homes
  John Feminella (Independently Affiliated) and Devika Pisharoty and Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia)

Grid-Integrated Building Equipment & Systems

• Minimizing Electricity Costs by Sharing Energy in Sustainable Microgrids
  Zhichuan Huang and Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Yu Gu (IBM Research-Austin), and David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Collaborative Energy Conservation in a Microgrid
  Mohit Jain, Harshad Khadilkar, Neha Sengupta, and Zainul Charbiwala (IBM Research), Kushan U Tennakoon and Rodzay bin Haji Abdul Wahab (Institute for Biodiversity & Environmental Research, UBD), Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), and Deva P. Seetharam (IBM Research)
• Quantifying Flexibility of Residential Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Response: A Data-driven Approach
  Emre Can Kara (Carnegie Mellon University / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Michaelangelo D. Tabone (University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jason S. MacDonald and Sila Kiliccote (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Duncan Callaway (University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Notes Papers

• Distributed Independent Actuation for Irrigation Control
  Daniel A. Winkler and Alberto E. Cerpa (University of California, Merced)
• Comparison of Linear Correlation and A Statistical Dependency Measure for Inferring Spatial Relation of Temperature Sensors in Buildings
  Merthan Koc, Burcu Akinci, and Mario Bergés (CMU)
• Social Spring: Encounter-based Path Refinement for Indoor Tracking Systems
  Paul Martin, Yasser Shoukry, Prashanth Swaminathan, Robin Wentao Ouyang, and Mani Srivastava (UCLA)
• Strategy-proof Thermal Comfort Voting in Buildings
  Liang Zhang, Abraham Hang-yat Lam, and Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• Towards Automating the Deployment of Energy Saving Approaches in Buildings
  Anika Schumann, Joern Ploennigs, and Bernard Gorman (IBM Research – Ireland)
• Optimal HVAC Building Control with Occupancy Prediction
  Alex Beltran and Alberto E. Cerpa (University of California, Merced)