Abstract
Buildings are increasingly equipped with smart appliances that allow a fine grained adaption to personal comfort requirements. Such comfort adaption should be based on a human-feedback loop and not on a centralized comfort
model. We argue that this feedback-loop should be achieved through local interaction with smart appliances. Two issues stand out: (1) How to impose logical locality when interacting with a smart appliance? (2) How to mediate conflicts between several persons in a room, or between building-wide policies and user preferences? We approach both problems by defining a general model for human-smart appliance interaction. We present a prototype implementation with an off-the-shelf smart lighting and heating system in a shared office space. Our approach minimizes the need for location metadata. It relies on a human-feedback loop (both sensor based and manual) to identify the optimal setpoints for lights and heating. These setpoints are determined by considering individual comfort preferences, current user location and a global goal of minimizing energy consumption.
model. We argue that this feedback-loop should be achieved through local interaction with smart appliances. Two issues stand out: (1) How to impose logical locality when interacting with a smart appliance? (2) How to mediate conflicts between several persons in a room, or between building-wide policies and user preferences? We approach both problems by defining a general model for human-smart appliance interaction. We present a prototype implementation with an off-the-shelf smart lighting and heating system in a shared office space. Our approach minimizes the need for location metadata. It relies on a human-feedback loop (both sensor based and manual) to identify the optimal setpoints for lights and heating. These setpoints are determined by considering individual comfort preferences, current user location and a global goal of minimizing energy consumption.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, BuildSys@SenSys 2016, Palo Alto, CA, USA, November 16-17, 2016 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 235-236 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-4264-3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Smart appliances
- Human-feedback loop
- Comfort adaptation
- Local interaction
- Conflict mediation