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@article{Hou:2020:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107126,
author = {Hou, H and Pawlak, J and Sivakumar, A and Howard, B and Polak, J},
doi = {10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107126},
journal = {Building and Environment},
pages = {1--18},
title = {An approach for building occupancy modelling considering the urban context},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107126},
volume = {183},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - Building occupancy, which reflects occupant presence, movements and activities within the building space, is a key factor to consider in building energy modelling and simulation. Characterising complex occupant behaviours and their determinants poses challenges from the sensing, modelling, interpretation and prediction perspectives. Past studies typically applied time-dependent models to predict regular occupancy patterns for commercial buildings. However, this prevalent reliance on purely time-of-day effects is typically not sufficient to accurately characterise the complex occupancy patterns as they may vary with building’s surrounding conditions, i.e. the urban environment. Therefore, this research proposes a conceptual framework to incorporate the interactions between urban systems and building occupancy. Under the framework, we propose a novel modelling methodology relying on competing risk hazard formulation to analyse the occupancy of a case study building in London, UK. The occupancy profiles were inferred from the Wi-Fi connection logs extracted from the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. When compared with the conventional discrete-time Markov Chain Model (MCM), the hazard-based modelling approach was able to better capture the duration dependent nature of the transition probabilities as well as incorporate and quantify the influence of the local environment on occupancy transitions. The work has demonstrated that this approach enables a convenient and flexible incorporation of urban dependenciesleading to accurate occupancy predictions whilst providing the ability to interpret the impacts of urban systems on building occupancy. Keywords: Urban system; Competing risk hazard model; Building occupancy simulation; Wi4 Fi connection data
AU  - Hou,H
AU  - Pawlak,J
AU  - Sivakumar,A
AU  - Howard,B
AU  - Polak,J
DO  - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107126
EP  - 18
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0360-1323
SP  - 1
TI  - An approach for building occupancy modelling considering the urban context
T2  - Building and Environment
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107126
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013232030500X?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80587
VL  - 183
ER  -

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