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M. Kayalar, F. Tahmasebi, A. Mahdavi:
"Exploring the interrelationships between occupants' presence patterns and plug loads in an office building";
in: "(Printed) Proceedings of CESB 2016: Central Europe towards sustainable building 2016 - innovations for sustrainable future", CESB16 - Book of (extented) abstracts; P. Hàjek, J. Tywoniak, A. Lupisek (ed.); issued by: CESB2016; Eigenverlag der CESB2016, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016, ISBN: 9788027102488, 399 - 400.

The importance of energy efficiency in the building sector is steadily increasing. Thereby, more attention needs to be paid to the buildings' internal heat gains resulting from occupants, lighting, and equipment usage. These gains play an important role with regard to the buildings' indoor environmental conditions and energy use. Specifically, provision of thermally comfortable indoor environments during summer in central Europe necessitates a deeper knowledge of occupants' presence and equipment use patterns. Given this background, the present contribution uses long-term observational data obtained from a continously monitored office building in Vienna to examine: i) the relationship between occupants' presence and electrical energy use for equipment; ii) the diversity amongst the occupants concerning their use of electrical equipment, and iii) the potential for inferring, from real-time monitored electrical energy use data, the presence probability of office users.

(no german version available) The importance of energy efficiency in the building sector is steadily increasing. Thereby, more attention needs to be paid to the buildings' internal heat gains resulting from occupants, lighting, and equipment usage. These gains play an important role with regard to the buildings' indoor environmental conditions and energy use. Specifically, provision of thermally comfortable indoor environments during summer in central Europe necessitates a deeper knowledge of occupants' presence and equipment use patterns. Given this background, the present contribution uses long-term observational data obtained from a continously monitored office building in Vienna to examine: i) the relationship between occupants' presence and electrical energy use for equipment; ii) the diversity amongst the occupants concerning their use of electrical equipment, and iii) the potential for inferring, from real-time monitored electrical energy use data, the presence probability of office users.

occupancy, internal heat gains, plug loads, equipment, electrical energy use