Publications

Taneja, Saurabh, Burcu Akinci, James H. Garrett, Lucio Soibelman, Mario Berges, Guzide Atasoy, Xuesong Liu, Mohsen Shahandashti, E. B. Anil, Esin Ergen, Anu Pradhan. “CEC: Sensing and Field Data Capture for Construction and Facility Operations”. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 137, no. 870, 2011. [PDF]

Shahandashti, Mohsen, Saledeh N. Razavi, Lucio Soibelman, Mario Berges, Carlos H. Caldas, Ioannis Brilakis, Jochen Teizer, Patricio A. Vela, Carl Haas, James H. Garrett Jr., Burcu Akinci, Zhenhua Zhu. “CEC: Data Fusion Approaches and Applications for Construction Engineering”. Journal of construction Engineering and Management, vol. 137, no. 863, 2011. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Ethan Goldman, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews, Kyle Anderson. “User-centric Non-Intrusive Electricity Load Monitoring for Residential Buildings”. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, vol. 25, no. 471, 2011. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Ethan Goldman, H. Scott Matthews, Lucio Soibelman. “Enhancing Electricity Audits in Residential Buildings with Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring”. Journal of Industrial Ecology: Special Issue on Environmental Applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 844-858, 2010. [PDF]

Rowe, Anthony, Mario Berges, Gaurav Bhatia, Ethan Goldman, Raj Rajkumar, Lucio Soibelman, James H. Garrett, José M. F. Moura. “Sensor Andrew: Large-Scale Campus-Wide Sensing and Actuation.” IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 55, no. 1 (1): 6:1 – 6:14, 2010. [PDF].

Berges, Mario, Ethan Goldman, H. Scott Matthews, and Lucio Soibelman. “Training Load Monitoring Algorithms on Highly Sub-Metered Home Electricity Consumption Data.” Tsinghua Science & Technology 13 (2008): 406-411. (Invited Journal Paper) [PDF]

Eybpoosh, Matineh, Burcu Akinci, Mario Berges. “Effects of Pre-scanning and Scanning Approaches on the Quality of Processed Laser Scanned Data: Lessons Learned”. Construction Research Congres (CRC), West Lafayette, IN, USA, 2012. (In print)

Liu, Xuesong, Burcu Akinci, James H. Garrett, Mario Berges. “Requirements and Development of A Computerized Approach for Analyzing Functional Information of HVAC Components Using Building Information Models”. CIB W078 – W102, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2011. (In print)

Goncalves, Hugo, Adrian Ocneanu, Mario Berges. “Unsupervised Disaggregation of Appliances using Aggregated Consumption Data”. KDD 2011 Workshop on Data Mining Applications for Sustainability, San Diego, CA, USA, 2011. [PDF]

Liu, Xuesong, Burcu Akinci, James H. Garrett, Mario Berges. “Requirements for an Integrated Framework of Self-Managing HVAC Systems”. Proceedings of the 2011 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Miami, Florida, USA, 2011. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Emre Can Kara, Ethan Goldman, Anthony Rowe. “Towards Automated Detection and State Tracking of Artificial Light Sources From Sequential Pictures Inside Buildings”. European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE) Workshop 2011, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2011. [PDF]

Nunes, Nuno J., Lucas Pereira, Felipe Quintal, Mario Berges. “Deploying and evaluating the effectiveness of energy eco-feedback through a low-cost NILM solution”. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2011), Columbus, OH, USA, 2011. (In print)

Jin, Yuanwei, Eniye Tebekaemi, Mario Berges, Lucio Soibelman. “A Time-Frequency Approach for Event Detection in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring”. Proceedings of SPIE: Defense, Security and Sensing, Orlando, Florida, 2011. [PDF]

Jin, Yuanwei, Eniye Tebekaemi, Mario Berges, Lucio Soibelman. “Robust Adaptive Event Detection in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Energy Aware Smart Facilities”. International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic. (In print)

Rowe, Anthony, Mario Berges, Raj Rajkumar. “Contactless Sensing of Appliance State Transitions Through Variations in Electromagnetic Fields”. 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, 2010. [PDF] (Best paper by popular vote)

Quintal, Felipe, Nuno J. Nunes, Adrian Ocneanu, Mario Berges. “SINAIS: home consumption package: a low-cost eco-feedback energy-monitoring research platform”. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’10), Arhus, Denmark, 2010. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, H. Scott Matthews, Lucio Soibelman. “A System for disaggregating Residential Electricity Consumption by Appliance”. The IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) 2010, Washington, DC, 2010. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews. “Leveraging Data From Environmental Sensors to Enhance Electrical Load Disaggregation Algorithms”. 13th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Nottingham, UK, 2010. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews. “Building Commissioning as an Opportunity for Training Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Algorithms”, 6th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), State College, PA, 2010. [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews, Ethan Goldman. “Evaluating the electric consumption of residential buildings: current practices and future prospects”. Construction Research Congress 2010, Banff, Alberta, 2010. [PDF].

Berges, Mario, Ethan Goldman, H. Scott Matthews, and Lucio Soibelman. “Learning Systems for Electric Consumption of Buildings”. ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Austin, Texas, 2009. [PDF]

Rowe, Anthony, Mario Berges, Gaurav Bhatia, Ethan Goldman, Raj Rajkumar, Lucio Soibelman. “Sensor Andrew: Large-Scale Campus-Wide Sensing”. 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, San Francisco. 2009. (Demonstration Paper) [PDF]

Berges, Mario, Ethan Goldman, H. Scott Matthews, and Lucio Soibelman. “Training Load Monitoring Algorithms on Highly Sub-Metered Home Electricity Consumption Data.” 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Beijging, 2008. [PDF]

Matthews, H. Scott, Lucio Soibelman, Mario Berges, and Ethan Goldman. “Automatically Disaggregating the Total Electrical Load in Residential Buildings: a Profile of the Required Solution.” In Intelligent Computing in Engineering (ICE08) Proceedings. Plymouth, 2008. [PDF]

Rowe, Anthony, Mario Berges, Gaurav Bhatia, Ethan Goldman, Raj Rajkumar, Lucio Soibelman, James Garrett, José M. F. Moura, “Sensor Andrew: Large-Scale Campus-Wide Sensing and Actuation”, Carnegie Mellon Technical Report, ECE-TR-08-11 2008. [PDF]

Berges, Mario E., Ethan J. Goldman, Lucio Soibelman, Burton W. Andrews, Diego S. Benitez, H. Scott Matthews, Michael Hoynck. “Methods and Apparatuses for Monitoring Energy Consumption and Related Operations”. International Patent: WO 2011/002735, 2011. U.S. Provisional Patent: #61/222,247. November 2009.