Publications

X Term: BTUS Lighting and Electronics

2025

Grant, Peter, Noah Gabriel, Weiping Huang, and Tao Yang."Field Demonstration of Cost Minimizing Load Shifting Controls for 120V Heat Pump Water Heaters in Different Pricing Scenarios."2025 ASHRAE Annual Conference (2025). DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Flavia De Andrade Pereira, Anand Prakash, Sang woo Ham, Jingjuan Feng, Rich Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Open building operating system: a grid-responsive semantics-driven control platform for buildings."Science and Technology for the Built Environment 31.3 (2025) 294-311. DOI

2024

Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Donghun Kim, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant."Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Conor Shaw, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell."Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings."Journal of Building Engineering 86 (2024) 108645. DOI
Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles."Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards." (2024).

2023

Brown, Richard E, Aditya Khandekar, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Jaime Kolln, Steve Widergren, David Narang, Ted Bohn, and Yaosuo Xue."Energy Services Interface: Requirements Document." (2023). DOI
Kolln, Jaime, Jingjing Liu, Steve Widergren, and Richard E Brown."Common Grid Services: Terms and Definitions Report." (2023). DOI
Méndez, Juana Isabel, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, Omar Mata, and Arturo Molina."Empower saving energy into smart communities using social products with a gamification structure for tailored Human–Machine Interfaces within smart homes."International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) 17.3 (2023) 1363 - 1387. DOI
Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies 16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown."State of Common Grid Services Definitions." (2022).
Meier, Alan K, Abigail A Daken, and Leo Rainer."Long-term trends in connected thermostat performance."The ECEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2022).
Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E Brown."SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).
Butzbaugh, Joshua, Kini Roshan, and Alan K Meier."International Actions to Reduce Miscellaneous Electrical Loads Energy Consumption."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2022).

2021

Rainer, Leo, Alan K Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings 250 (2021) 111217. DOI
Meier, Alan K, and Dan Cautley."Practical limits to the use of non-intrusive load monitoring in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 251 (2021) 111308. DOI
Bennani, Imane Lahmam, Anand Prakash, Marina Zafiris, Lazlo Paul, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro."Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications."BuildSys '21: The 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2021). DOI
Celniker, Chloe, Sharon S Chen, Alan K Meier, and Ronnen M Levinson."Targeting buildings for energy-saving cool-wall retrofits: a case study at the University of California, Davis."Energy and Buildings 249 (2021) 111014. DOI
Gerber, Daniel L, Fariborz Musavi, Omkar Ghatpande, Stephen M Frank, Jason Poon, Richard E Brown, and Wei Feng."A Comprehensive Loss Model and Comparison of AC and DC Boost Converters."Energies 14.11 (2021) 3131. DOI
Butzbaugh, Joshua, Robert Hosbach, and Alan K Meier."Miscellaneous electric loads: Characterization and energy savings potential."Energy and Buildings 241 (2021) 110892. DOI
Helmns, Dre, David Blum, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Jonathan Woolley, David Vernon, Caton Mande, Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M Dutton."Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems."6th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2021).
Shackelford, Jordan, and Alan K Meier."Laboratory Evaluation of Tunable White LEDs for Circadian Lighting in Commercial Offices." (2021).

2020

Ueno, Tsuyoshi, and Alan K Meier."A method to generate heating and cooling schedules based on data from connected thermostats."Energy and Buildings 228 (2020) 110423. DOI
Chen, Bingqing, Jonathan Francis, Marco Pritoni, Soummya Kar, and Mario Bergés."COHORT: Coordination of Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Flexibility."Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI
McIlvennie, Claire, Angela Sanguinetti, and Marco Pritoni."Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research."Energy Research & Social Science 68 (2020) 101555. DOI
Yang, Bin, Xiaojing Li, Yingzhen Hou, Alan K Meier, Xiaogang Cheng, Joon-Ho Choi, Faming Wang, Huan Wang, Andreas Wagner, Da Yan, Angui Li, Thomas Olofsson, and Haibo Li."Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses -A review."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110261. DOI