RFID Technology Applied for Validation of an Office Simulation Model

Vincent Tabak (), Bauke de Vries and Jan Dijkstra
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Vincent Tabak: Eindhoven University of Technology, Design Systems Group, Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning
Bauke de Vries: Eindhoven University of Technology, Design Systems Group, Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning
Jan Dijkstra: Eindhoven University of Technology, Design Systems Group, Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008, 2010, pp 269-275 from Springer

Abstract: Summary This paper presents the validation of an office utilisation model for the research project called “User Simulation of Space Utilisation (USSU)”. The result of this research is a system that can be used for analysing and evaluating the space utilisation of a building for any given organisation. A system for building usage simulation that produces data about activities of members of an organisation can substantially improve the relevance and performance of building simulation tools. This is relevant for engineering domains as well as for architects to evaluate the performance of a building design. For a thorough evaluation of the system an experiment was executed for assessing its predictive quality in the context of a real building, organisation and actual human behaviour; this experiment was executed using RFID technology. The result of the experiment was observed data about the space utilisation of the selected organisation. This data set was compared with the space utilisation predicted by the USSU system to evaluate the simulation model. The validation of USSU showed that there were no significant differences between the predicated and observed activity behaviour. As a consequence, the output of USSU is considered to be valid.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_23

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