公开(公告)号：US20190004550A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-03

申请号：US16065198

申请日：2015-12-31

Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.

Inventor： Claudio BOREAN ,  Giuseppe DI BELLA ,  Ennio GRASSO

IPC: G05D23/19 ,  G05B15/02 ,  F24F11/67

Abstract: A method for controlling a heating/cooling system located at a home of a user. For a population of users, occurrences of occupancy-related events occurring in the users' homes are detected. Then, occurrences of such occupancy-related events in different timeslots are counted separately for each user of the population. The counts of the various users are then merged and a topic model is applied thereto, to provide probabilities that latent habits give raise to certain sequences of occupancy-related events and proportions of each habit in the home occupancy routine of each user of the population. Thereby, a reliable forecast of the home occupancy routine of each user of the population may be provided. That allows setting the heating/cooling system of each user of the population to fit such reliable forecast, minimizing energy waste and/or maximizing user's comfort.