Planning for sustainable cities by estimating building occupancy with mobile phones

oleh: Edward Barbour, Carlos Cerezo Davila, Siddharth Gupta, Christoph Reinhart, Jasleen Kaur, Marta C. González

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-08-01

Deskripsi

Building retrofits offer enormous potential for energy reduction and must be designed with occupancy in mind. Here, the authors developed a method for estimating building occupancy at urban scale using mobile phone traces and they find that energy saving estimates differ by +1 to −15% for residential buildings and by −4 to −21% for commercial buildings.