Behavior Driven Model Predictive Controls for Future Smart Buildings

This presentation reviews current occupancy behavior (OB) based MPC control projects for smart building at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Challenges and opportunities of OB-MPC for smart buildings are presented and discussed, particularly on models to use, occupancy data and optimization algorithms. Simulation results show that OB-MPC can achieve up to 24% energy cost reduction in residential buildings and 17% in commercial buildings.