Pippa Boothman at Disruptive Technologies explores the benefits of occupancy monitoring for business efficiency and employee wellbeing It is becoming crucial for businesses to monitor occupancy.

TI Intelligent Occupancy Sensing (IOS), which is a new vision-based method of detecting and counting the number of people in given area, is ideally suited for applications that require a high degree ...

A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent — tens of thousands of dollars — off the overall annual energy bill of the average large office building, with no loss of ...

Supported by the Saving Energy Nationwide in Structures with Occupancy Recognition (SENSOR) program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a ...

For many years, one of the most common solutions for saving energy has been to “turn out the lights and dial down the thermostat.” It’s a given that unoccupied space is one of the biggest energy ...

State energy codes in the United States, which must be at least as stringent as the ASHRAE/IES 90.1-1999 standard, require automatic shutoff of lighting in commercial buildings greater than 5,000 ...