Autonomous HVAC Control, A Reinforcement Learning Approach

• Published in: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases Vol. 9286; pp. 3 - 19
• Main Authors: Barrett, Enda, Linder, Stephen
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2015; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Bayesian learning; Data mining; HVAC control; Pattern recognition; Reinforcement learning

Recent high profile developments of autonomous learning thermostats by companies such as Nest Labs and Honeywell have brought to the fore the possibility of ever greater numbers of intelligent devices permeating our homes and working environments into the future. However, the specific learning appro...