Occupancy sensing
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsIoannis Pefkianakis, Abhinav Parate, Shruti Sanadhya
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Abstract
Example implementations may relate to an occupancy sensing system. For example, the occupancy sensing system may collect connection data and traffic data related to electronic devices that connect to the networking device. The occupancy sensing system may determine a number of resident devices and a number of high-traffic devices, based on the connection data or the traffic data. The occupancy sensing system may determine a number of the electronic devices that are coactive within an analysis time window, and may constrain the number of coactive electronic devices to a range from the number of high-traffic devices to the number of resident devices to generate an occupancy value.
Claims20
An occupancy sensing system comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
- collect, from a networking device, connection data and traffic data related to electronic devices that connect to the networking device;
- differentiate the electronic devices into resident devices and transient devices based on the connection data and to determine a number of the resident devices;
- determine a number of high-traffic devices among the electronic devices based on the traffic data;
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- determine a number of the electronic devices that are coactive in an analysis time window, and to determine an occupancy value that is the number of electronic devices that are coactive bounded in a range from the number of resident devices to the number of high-traffic devices.
A method comprising:
- collecting, by an occupancy sensing system from a networking device associated with a zone, connection data and traffic data for electronic devices that connect to the networking device;
- computing, by the occupancy sensing system:
- an upper bound that is a quantity of electronic devices that connect to the networking device, according to the connection data, with greater frequency or duration than others of the electronic devices, and
- a lower bound that is a quantity of electronic devices that together generate a predetermined percentage of traffic at the networking device;
- identifying, by the occupancy sensing system, active devices that are electronic devices that connect to the networking device with respective traffic data exceeding a background activity traffic threshold;
- determining, by the occupancy sensing system, a quantity of active devices that are coactive in the zone during an analysis time window;
- and
- constraining, by the occupancy sensing system, the quantity of active devices that are coactive to a range from the lower bound to the upper bound to generate an occupancy value.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, storing instructions executable by a processor of an occupancy sensing system, the non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising:
- instructions to collect, from a networking device, connection data and traffic data related to electronic devices that connect to the networking device;
- instructions to determine a number of resident devices that are electronic devices that connect to the networking device, based on the connection data, with greater frequency or duration than others of the electronic devices;
- instructions to determine a number of high-traffic devices that is a minimum number of electronic devices that collectively generate a predetermined percentage of traffic at the networking device;
- instructions to identify, in an analysis time window, coactive devices from among electronic devices that actively connect to the networking device with respective traffic data exceeding a background activity traffic threshold;
- and
- instructions to generate an occupancy value that is a number of the coactive devices constrained to a range from the number of resident devices to the number of high-traffic devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.