Demonstrating OccuRE: An Occupancy REasoning Platform for Occupancy-driven Applications: Demo Abstract

Occupant behavior determines a large share of the energy consumption of buildings. Software applications driven by information about occupant behavior provide a mean to optimize this share. However, existing systems for sensing occupancy behavior provide technology-specific APIs statically coupled to the type of computed occupancy information. Software platforms for developing applications for buildings lack abstractions for occupancy behavior. Therefore, technology lock in and lack of proper abstractions hamper the development of occupancy-driven applications. In this demonstration we will demo OccuRE, a stream-based Occupancy REasoning platform. OccuRE provides a technology agnostic API for accessing occupancy information to significantly improve portability. The platform uses a computation model with dynamic composition to calculate and reason about occupancy behavior. Together, these elements remove that developers need to deal with technology-specific processing of sensor data to ease application development.