Publications

2016

• The Case for a Local Tier in the Internet of Things [link]
  

  John Kolb, Kaifei Chen, and Randy H. Katz.
  UC Berkeley EECS Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2016-222, December 2016.

• Demo Abstract: Portable Queries Using the Brick Schema for Building Applications [link]
  

  Bharathan Balaji , Arka Bhattacharya , Gabriel Fierro , Jingkun Gao , Joshua Gluck , Dezhi Hong , Aslak Johansen, Jason Koh , Joern Ploennigs , Yuvraj Agarwal , Mario Berges , David Culler , Rajesh Gupta , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard , Mani Srivastava , Kamin Whitehouse, 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2016. (Best Demo Award)

• Brick v1.0 - Towards a Unified Metadata Schema for Buildings [link]
  

  Bharathan Balaji, Arka Bhattacharya, Gabe Fierro, Jingkun Gao, Joshua Gluck, Dezhi Hong, Aslak Johansen, Jason Koh, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Berges, David E. Culler, Rajesh Gupta, Mikkel Baun Kj{\ae}rgaard, Joern Ploennigs, Kamin Whitehouse
  3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2016.(Audience Choice Best Paper Award)

• "Non-Intrusive Techniques for Establishing Occupancy-Related Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, and David Culler,
  3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Nov. 2016. (Best Paper Award)

• CellMate: A Responsive and Accurate Vision-based Appliance Identification System [link]
  

  Kaifei Chen, Takeshi Mochida, Jonathan Furst, John Kolb, David E. Culler, and Randy H. Katz.
  UC Berkeley EECS Technical Reports No. UCB/EECS-2016-154, September 2016

• Enabling Portable Energy Applications with a Building Operating System [link] [slides]
  

  Gabe Fierro, Therese Peffer, David E. Culler.
  2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 2016.

• Writing Controls Sequences for Buildings: from HVAC Industry Enclave to Hacker’s Weekend Project [link]
  

  Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Soazig Kaam, Joyce Kim, Paul Raftery.
  2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 2016.

• Getting into the Zone: How the Internet of Things can Improve Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in a Commercial Building [link]
  

  Peng Zhao, Therese Peffer, Ram Narayanamurthy, Gabe Fierro, Paul Raftery, Soazig Kaam, Joyce Kim.
  2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 2016.

• Well-connected Microzones for Increased Building Efficiency and Occupant Comfort [link]
  

  Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro , Sam Kumar, Joyce Kim, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, Paul Raftery , and David E. Culler.
  2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 2016.

• Crowd-sourced BMS Point Matching and Metadata Maintenance with Babel [link]
  

  Jonathan Fürst, Kaifei Chen, Mohammed Aljarrah, and Philippe Bonnet.
  International Workshop on Crowd-Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems, and Communications (CASPer) April 2016

• Design and Evaluation of an Indoor Positioning System Framework [link]
  

  Kaifei Chen, Karthik Vadde
  Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2016-16, April 2016.

• Leveraging Physical Locality to Integrate Smart Appliances in Non-Residential Buildings with Ultrasound and Bluetooth Low Energy [link]
  

  Jonathan Fürst, Kaifei Chen, Mohammed Aljarrah, and Philippe Bonnet.
  1st IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, April 2016.

• System Design for a Synergistic, Low Power Mote/BLE Embedded Platform [link]
  

  Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler. EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
  15th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 2016.

• Enabling Synergy in IoT: Platform to Service and Beyond [link] [slides]
  

  Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, David E. Culler. EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
  1st IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, April 2016.

• BTrDB: Optimizing Storage System Design for Timeseries Processing [link]
  

  Andersen, Michael P., and David E. Culler.
  File and Storage Technologies (FAST), February 2016.



• System Design Trade-Offs in a Next-Generation Embedded Wireless Platform [link]
  

  Michael Anderson, and David E. Culler.
  File and Storage Technologies (FAST). February 2016.





2015

• DISTIL: Design and Implemention of a Scalable Synchrophasor Data Processing System [link]
  

  Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Connor Brooks, Alexandra von Meier, David E. Culler. EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
  IEEE International Conference onSmart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), November 2015.

• Automated Metadata Construction To Support Portable Building Applications [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Jorge Ortiz, Dezhi Hong, and Kamin Whitehouse,
  2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015. (Best Paper Nominee)

• Short Paper: A Method for Discovering Functional Relationships Between Air-Handling Units and Variable-Air-Volume Boxes From Sensor Data [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Marco Pritoni, and Mark Modera,
  2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015.

• Short Paper: Analyzing Metadata Schemas for Buildings --- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, Joern Ploennigs, and David Culler,
  2nd ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2015.

• Demo Abstract: Human-in-the-loop BMS Point Matching and Metadata Labeling with Babel [link]
  

  Jonathan Fürst, Kaifei Chen, Randy H. Katz, and Philippe Bonnet.
  BuildSys '15 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, November 2015.

• Poster Abstract: Intuitive Appliance Identification using Image Matching in Smart Buildings [link]
  

  Kaifei Chen, John Kolb, Jonathan Fürst, Dezhi Hong, and Randy H. Katz.
  BuildSys '15 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, November 2015.

• XBOS: An Extensible Building Operating System [link]
  

  Gabe Fierro and David E. Culler. EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
  Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-197, September 2015.

• Open Software-Architecture for Building Monitoring and Control [link]
  

  Carl Blumstein, David E. Culler, Gabe Fierro, Therese Peffer and Marco Pritoni
  Sustainable Places 2015, September 2015.

• BearLoc: A Composable Distributed Framework for Indoor Localization Systems [link]
  

  Kaifei Chen, Siyuan He, Beidi Chen, John Kolb, Randy H. Katz, and David E. Culler.
  International Workshop on IoT Challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys), May 2015.





2014

• Poster Abstract: Automated Metadata Transformation for A-priori Deployed Sensor Networks [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Dezhi Hong, Jorge Ortiz, and Kamin Whitehouse,
  Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2014.

• Demo Abstract: Enabling Portable Building Applications through Automated Metadata Transformation [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, David Culler, Dezhi Hong, Jorge Ortiz, and Kamin Whitehouse,
  1st ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), November 2014.

• Unobtrusive Power Proportionality for HPC Frameworks [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, and David Culler.
  5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy),June 2014.





2013

• Enabling Advanced Environmental Conditioning with a Building Application Stack [link]
  

  Jay Taneja, Andrew Krioukov, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, and David Culler
  Proceedings of the 4th International Green Computing Conference (IGCC '13), June 2013.

• BOSS: Building Operating System Services [link]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Andrew Krioukov, Jay Taneja, Sagar Karandikar, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '13), April 2013.

• Strip, Bind, and Search: A Method for Identifying Abnormal Energy Consumption in Buildings [link]
  

  Hiroshi Esaki, Romain Fontugne, Jorge Ortiz, Nicolas Tremblay, Pierre Borgnat, Patrick Flandrin, Kensuke Fukuda, and David E. Culler.
  12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2013). April, 2013.
  



• Towards Automatic Spatial Verification of Sensor Placement in Buildings [link]
  

  Denzhi Hong, Jorge Ortiz, Kamin Whitehouse, and David E. Culler,
  5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys), November 2013.





2012

• Demo Abstract: Zone-level Occupancy Counting with Existing Infrastructure [link]
  

  Gabe Fierro, Omar Rehmane, Andrew Krioukov, David Culler
  4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, November 2012.

• Building Application Stack (BAS) [link]
  

  Andrew Krioukov, Gabe Fierro, Nikita Kitaev, David Culler. 4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, November 2012. (Best Paper)

• Towards Real-time, Fine-grained Energy Analytics in Buildings Through Mobile Phones [link]
  

  Jorge Ortiz, Yongwoo Noh, Gavin Saldanha, David Su, David E. Culler.
  4th ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2012).
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 42-44, November, 2012.

• Live, Continuous Energy Auditing of Miscellaneous Electrical Loads: Methodology and Results [link]
  

  Jorge Ortiz, Jason Trager, Gavin Saldanha, David E. Culler, Paul K. Wright.
  ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficient Buildings, Aug. 2012.

• Empirical Mode Decomposition for Intrinsic-Relationship Extraction in Large Sensor Deployments [link]
  

  Romain Fontugne, Jorge Ortiz, David Culler, Hiroshi Esaki.
  1st International Workshop on the Internet of Things applications. April 2012.

2012

• Energy-Efficient Building HVAC Control Using Hybrid System LBMPC [link]
  

  Anil Aswani, Neal Master, Jay Taneja, Andrew Krioukov, David Culler, and Claire Tomlin.
  IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2012.

• Identifying Models of HVAC Systems Using Semi-parametric Regression [link]
  

  Anil Aswani, Neal Master, Jay Taneja, Virginia Smith, Andrew Krioukov, David Culler, and Claire Tomlin.
  Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2012.

• The Need for Speed and Stability for Data Center Power Capping [link]
  

  Arka Bhattacharya, Aman Kansal, David Culler, Sriram Sankar, and Sriram Govindan.
  IGCC, June 2012.

• Defining CPS Challenges in a Sustainable Electricity Grid [link]
  

  Jay Taneja, Randy Katz, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Third International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, April, 2012.

• GUPT: Privacy Preserving Data Mining Made Easy [link]
  

  P. Mohan, A. Thakutra, E. Shi, D. Song, and D. E. Culler. SIGMOD, May 2012.

• @scale: Insights from a Large, Long-Lived Appliance Energy WSN [link]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Steven Lanzisera, Jay Taneja, Richard Brown, and David Culler.
  To appear in Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, SPOTS Track (IPSN/SPOTS '12), April 2012.





2011

• Industry: Beyond Interoperability - Pushing the Performance of Sensor Network IP Stacks [link]
  

  JeongGil Ko, Joakim Eriksson, Nicolas Tsiftes, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Mathilde Durvy, Andreas Terzis, Adam Dunkels, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Industry Track (SenSys '11), November 2011.

• A Living Laboratory Study in Personalized Automated Lighting Controls [link]
  

  Andrew Krioukov, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Linda Lee, and David Culler.
  BuildSys: 3rd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, Seattle WA. 2011.

• Integrating Renewable Energy Using Data Analytics Systems: Challenges and Opportunities [link]
  

  Andrew Krioukov, Christoph Goebel, Sara Alspaugh, Yanpei Chen, David Culler, Randy Katz.
  Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, March 2011.

• An information-centric energy infrastructure: The Berkeley view [link]
  

  Randy H. Katz, David E. Culler, Seth Sanders, Sara Alspaugh, Yanpei Chen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Prabal Dutta, Mike He, Xiaofan Jiang, Laura Keys, Andrew Krioukov, Ken Lutz, Jorge Ortiz, Prashanth Mohan, Evan Reutzel, Jay Taneja, Jeff Hsu and Sushant Shankar.
  Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-22, March, 2011.





2010

• sMAP - a Simple Measurement and Actuation Profile for Physical Information [link] [Slides]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Xiaofan Jiang, Gilman Tolle, Jorge Ortiz, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '10), November 2010.

• HBCI: Human-Building-Computer Interaction [link]
  

  Jeff Hsu, Prashanth Mohan, Xiaofan Jiang, Jorge J Ortiz, Sushant Shankar, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, and David Culler.
  2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 2010), November 2010.

• Towards Cooperative Grids: Sensor/Actuator Networks for Promoting Renewables [link]
  

  Jay Taneja, Prabal Dutta, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the First IEEE Internationl Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm '10), October 2010.

• Hydro: A Hybrid Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks [link] [Slides]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Arsalan Tavakoli, and David Culler.
  Proceedings of the First IEEE Internationl Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm '10), October 2010.

• Enabling Green Building Applications [link]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jorge Ortiz, Xiaofan Jiang, Jeff Hsu, Sushant Shankar, and David Culler.
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets), June 2010.

• NapSAC: Design and Implementation of a Power-Proportional Web Cluster [link]
  

  Andrew Krioukov, Prashanth Mohan, Sara Alspaugh, Laura Keys, David Culler, Randy Katz.
  Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Green Networking, New Delhi, India, Aug 2010.





2009

• Power Optimization: a Reality Check [link]
  

  Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Andrew Krioukov, David Culler.
  EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2009-140, Oct. 2009.

• Design and Implementation of a High-Fidelity AC Metering Network [link]
  

  Xiaofan Jiang, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Prabal Dutta, and David Culler.
  The 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'09) Track on Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS '09), Apr. 2009.





2008

• An Architecture for Local Energy Generation, Distribution, and Sharing [link]
  

  Mike M. He, Evan M. Reutzel, Xiaofan Jiang, Randy H. Katz, Seth R. Sanders, David E. Culler, Ken Lutz.
  IEEE Energy2030 Conference Proceedings, Nov 17-18, 2008.