Abstract: An apparatus for managing energy consumption of one or more buildings of one or more building types based on occupancy is provided. The apparatus includes an occupancy estimator and a multiple facility controller. The occupancy estimator is configured to receive energy consumption and outside temperature streams corresponding to a portion of the one or more buildings, and is configured to employ occupancy components for each of the one or more buildings within the portion to process the streams, and is configured to generate occupancy levels corresponding to the one or more buildings within the portion, where the occupancy components and the occupancy levels are generated by exclusively processing the streams, and is configured to assign the occupancy levels to remaining ones of the one or more buildings not in the first portion according to building type.

Abstract: An occupancy based targeted marketing system for augmenting market control techniques corresponding to one or more buildings of one or more building types within a geographic subsector is provided. The occupancy based traffic control system includes a subsector occupancy aggregator, an other facility occupancy estimator, and a subsector market control processor. The subsector occupancy aggregator is configured to receive energy consumption and outside temperature streams corresponding to a portion of the one or more buildings, and is configured to employ occupancy components for each of the portion of the one or more buildings to process the streams, and is configured to generate average occupancy components corresponding to each building type within the portion of the one or more buildings and a first aggregated occupancy component for the first portion of the one or more buildings, where the occupancy components are generated by exclusively processing the streams.

Abstract: An apparatus for security control of a facility is provided, including devices, a network operations center (NOC), and control nodes. The devices are within the facility, each consuming a portion of a resource, and each performing a corresponding function when actuated. The NOC is external to the facility, and generates run time schedules, where the run time schedules coordinate actuation times for the each of the devices to maintain security for local security environments, and adjusts the run time schedules based upon occupancy levels generated by the NOC, where the occupancy levels are exclusively generated based on consumption of the resource and outside temperature. The control nodes are within the facility, each coupled to a corresponding one of the devices, where the control nodes are coupled together via a building security network that is operatively coupled to the NOC, control nodes execute selected run time schedules to actuate the devices.