Dr. Tiller has been active in the area of human factors in building energy for more than 15 years. Tiller’s more recent work has investigated the development and application of occupancy sensor networks to enhance building energy management and security. This work, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy provides the technical foundation for the work described in this proposal, and it shows that occupancy sensor networks, consisting of several independent detectors monitoring the same space, provide more accurate occupancy measurement, and more cost effective control, than are possible with a single point of detection.
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