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Profiling spatial and temporal behaviour in sensor networks: A case study in energy monitoring

  • Lida Rashidi
  • , Sutharshan Rajasegarar
  • , Christopher Leckie
  • , Michele Nati
  • , Alexander Gluhak
  • , Muhammad Ali Imran
  • , Marimuthu Palaniswami
  • School of Computing and Information Systems
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Surrey

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a cost-effective platform for monitoring phenomena of interest at fine spatial and temporal resolutions. In this paper, we consider the application of monitoring power usage in an office environment at the resolution of individual users. A key challenge in this context is how to extract meaningful profiles of user behaviour in the large volume of monitoring data collected by the WSN. To manage the complexity of learning such profiles in this context, we propose a query based model for profiling. This query based model provides the ability to characterize the spatial and temporal occurrences of the power usage patterns of interest. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our query-based profiling model for finding relevant electricity usage patterns in a real life data set of power measurements collected by a WSN deployment in an office environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time such a case study has been made on analysing the power usage of users at such a fine scale in an office environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE ISSNIP 2014 - 2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Conference Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781479928439
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, IEEE ISSNIP 2014 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 21 Apr 201424 Apr 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE ISSNIP 2014 - 2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, IEEE ISSNIP 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period21/04/1424/04/14

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