Detection of Room Occupancy in Smart BuildingsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Radioengineering, ISSN 1210-2512, E-ISSN 1805-9600, Vol. 33, no 3, p. 432-441Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Recent advancements in occupancy and indoor environmental monitoring have encouraged the development of innovative solutions. This paper presents a novel approach to room occupancy detection using Wi-Fi probe requests and machine learning techniques. We propose a methodology that splits occupancy detection into two distinct subtasks: personnel presence detection, where the model predicts whether someone is present in the room, and occupancy level detection, which estimates the number of occupants on a six-level scale (ranging from 1 person to up to 25 people) based on probe requests. To achieve this, we evaluated three types of neural networks: CNN (Convolutional Neural Network), LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), and GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit). Our experimental results show that the GRU model exhibits superior performance in both tasks. For personnel presence detection, the GRU model achieves an accuracy of 91.8%, outperforming the CNN and LSTM models with accuracies of 88.7% and 63.8%, respectively. This demonstrates the effectiveness of GRU in discerning room occupancy. Furthermore, for occupancy level detection, the GRU model achieves an accuracy of 75.1%, surpassing the CNN and LSTM models with accuracies of 47.1% and 52.8%, respectively. This research contributes to the field of occupancy detection by providing a cost-effective solution that utilizes existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and demonstrates the potential of machine learning techniques in accurately classifying room occupancy.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brno University of Technology , 2024. Vol. 33, no 3, p. 432-441
Keywords [en]
energy savings, machine learning, Occupancy detection, probe requests, Wi-Fi
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-352212DOI: 10.13164/re.2024.0432ISI: 001292738300010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85200274352OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-352212DiVA, id: diva2:1892395
Note
QC 20240905
2024-08-262024-08-262024-09-05Bibliographically approved