Marco Pritoni

Mechanical Research Scientist/Engineer

Electronics, Lighting & Networks Group

Building Technology Department

Building Technology & Urban Systems Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

90R2000

1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Office Location: 090-2066

[email protected]

Marco Pritoni

Marco holds a PhD and MS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UC Davis and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy. He conducts research in the area of HVAC, sensors, controls, automation, modeling and data analytics applied to buildings. Marco has worked in several in multidisciplinary projects involving several disciplines: computer science, mechanical engineering, building science and human behavior and he is an expert in how these factors affect energy use.

Publications

2019

Van Cutsem, Olivier, Maher Kayal, David Blum, and Marco Pritoni. "Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs." IEEE PowerTech Milan 2019. 2019.

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Meier, Alan K, Tsuyoshi Ueno, and Marco Pritoni. "Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States." Applied Energy 256 (2019) 113940.

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Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, and Marco Pritoni. "Inferring occupant counts from Wi-Fi data in buildings through machine learning." Building and Environment 158 (2019) 281 - 294.

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Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles. Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards. Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 2019.

Meier, Alan K, Leo I Rainer, Abigail A Daken, Tsuyoshi Ueno, Marco Pritoni, and Dan Baldewicz. "What can connected thermostats tell us about American heating and cooling habits?." ECEEE 2019 SUMMER STUDY 2019.

2018

Pritoni, Marco, Rebecca Ford, Beth Karlin, and Angela Sanguinetti. "Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US." Data in Brief 16 (2018) 71 - 74.

2017

Pritoni, Marco, Mary Ann Piette, and Bruce Nordman. Accessing Wi-Fi Data for Occupancy Sensing. 2017. LBNL-2001053.

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Pritoni, Marco, and David M Auslander. "Operating Systems for Small/Medium Commercial Buildings." Intelligent Building Control Systems. Ed. Wen, John T and Sandipan Mishra. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. 45 - 69.

2015

Pritoni, Marco, Alan K Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer. "Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior." Energy Research & Social Science 8 (2015).

2012

Peffer, Therese, Daniel Perry, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Alan K Meier. "Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface." Ergonomics 56.Issue 3: Ergonomics and Sustainability (2012).

Pritoni, Marco, Therese Peffer, Jessica Granderson, Margarita Kloss, Alan K Meier, and Cecilia Aragon. "Folk Labeling: Insights on Improving Usability and Saving Energy Gleaned from After-Market Graffiti on Common Appliances." 2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2012.

2011

Peffer, Therese, Marco Pritoni, Alan K Meier, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry. "How people use thermostats in homes: A review." Building and Environment 46.12 (2011).

Meier, Alan K, Cecilia Aragon, Therese Peffer, Daniel Perry, and Marco Pritoni. "Usability of Residential Thermostats: Preliminary Investigations." Building and Environment 46.10 (2011) 1891-1898.

Perry, Daniel, Cecilia Aragon, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, and Marco Pritoni. "Making Energy Savings Easier: Usability Metrics for Thermostats." Journal of Usability Studies 6.4 (2011) 226-244.

Meier, Alan K, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson. "Measuring the Usability of Appliance Controls." Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting Conference 2011.

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Perry, Daniel, Cecilia Aragon, Alan K Meier, and Marco Pritoni. "Developing standards for affordances on embedded devices: poster abstract." IConference ’11 2011.

Meier, Alan K, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry. "Facilitating energy savings through enhanced usability of thermostats." ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency 2011.