Occupancy estimation using environmental parameters

Abstract

This report highlights why there is the need to achieve a reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission, by measuring occupancy levels in buildings non-invasively to determine HVAC operation time. The report will also cover how the measurement of occupancy levels can be derived from real-time data collected from the environment by the adoption of sensors in the experiment setting. Additionally, this report will also review the different types of machine learning models that will be used for analysis of the datasets, their advantages/disadvantages, results, conclusion as well as the future work that can be carried out to improve the project subsequently.