Construction of a flow model for assessing human motion in buildings

........................................................................................................2 Motivation..................................................................................4 Introduction and problem statement....................................................4 Methodology...............................................................................5 SUN Estimator........................................................................6 Estimator Architecture........................................................6 Construction of Utility and penalty functions..............................9 Experimental Results.........................................................................11 Sensor and sensor layout............................................11 SUN Implementation.................................................12 Occupancy Estimation Results.....................................16 Conclusion....................................................................18 Belief Network.......................................................................19 Use of graphical probability models for sensor networks...............19 Construction of an occupancy sensor belief network...................20 Data Acquisition.............................................................22 Computation of inferences in sensor belief networks...................23 Results..........................................................................23 Conclusion....................................................................25 Comparison of two introduced approaches.......................................26 References............................................................................27