Analysis of sensory information for efficient operation of energy management systems in commercial hotels

Due to fluctuating energy prices and ever-increasing uncertainties in supply, the industrial and commercial sectors are poised to speed up introduction of energy saving mechanisms. Having badly hit by re-cent economic recession, the hotel industry has ever more reasons to save energy. A typical star-class hotel was chosen to conduct the energy usage optimization study presented in this paper. The hotel’s energy con-sumption pattern data was collected and analysed. Based on sensor information and manage information sys-tem data, cooling load requirement is correlated with the number of occupied rooms. It is shown that substan-tial savings can be achieved by introduction of wing operation to the hotel room allocation system. Moreover, the findings from the present study can be incorporated into a building management system (BMS) when it comes to automating the wing operations.