Summary of Spatial Features Of Co2 For Occupancy Detection in a Naturally Ventilated School Building, by Qirui Huang et al.
Spatial features of CO2 for occupancy detection in a naturally ventilated school building
by Qirui Huang, Marc Syndicus, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents two novel features for occupancy detection based on the spatial distribution of CO2 concentration, aiming to improve building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. It uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a classifier and demonstrates an improvement in accuracy up to 14.8 percentage points in naturally ventilated rooms, reaching 83.2% without ventilation information. Additionally, the paper shows significant performance enhancement for occupancy quantity detection, achieving 56% with root mean square error (RMSE) of 11.44 occupants using only CO2-related features. The study contributes to the development of low-cost occupancy detection methods for naturally ventilated buildings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about finding a better way to know if someone is in a building or not, which can help make buildings more energy efficient and people more comfortable. Right now, most methods use carbon dioxide sensors, but they don’t work very well because of how air moves around the building. The researchers came up with two new ideas for detecting occupancy based on where the CO2 is in the room. They tested these ideas using a special kind of math called Support Vector Machine (SVM) and found that it worked much better than before, getting 83% correct without even knowing how well the air was moving. If you add some extra information about the air movement, it gets even better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Support vector machine
