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M. Kayalar, F. Tahmasebi, A. Mahdavi:
"Exploring the interrelationships between occupants' presence patterns and plug loads in an office building";
Talk: Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2016 - Innovations for sustainable Future, Prague, Czech Republic; 2016-06-22 - 2016-06-24; in: "(Printed) Proceedings of CESB 2016: Central Europe towards sustainable building 2016 - innovations for sustrainable future", P. Hàjek, J. Tywoniak, A. Lupisek (ed.); Prague, Czech Republic (2016), ISBN: 9788027102488; Paper ID p.1404-1409, 8 pages.

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.

(keine deutsche Version) 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