Perceptive awareness in building automation

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system that uses a bionic approach to process the information obtained from a large number of diverse sensors. By means of the process of symbolization, the amount of information to be processed is drastically reduced, and used to create an inner representation of the real world. Three different applications involving human actions in a building are introduced and briefly discussed. It is argued that by making use of microsymbols, the proposed approach leads to greater flexibility, able to adapt to changing sensor inputs in an intelligent way.