Marco Pritoni

Marco Pritoni

Marco Pritoni is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he conducts research in the area of advanced controls, data-driven modeling and data analytics applied to buildings. He leads a team of researchers working on optimization of building operation and building-to-grid interaction. Marco has a multidisciplinary background spanning mechanical engineering, building science, data science and human behavior. He holds a PhD and MS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UC Davis and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy.

Contact Information

Phone: 530-220-4394

Education

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D, University of California, Davis, 2016
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, M.Sc, University of California, Davis, 2013
Industrial and Management Engineering, M.Sc. (Laurea Magistrale), University of Bologna (Italy), 2003

Publications

2024

Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis

Authors: Huang, Weiping; Armando Casillas; Marco Pritoni; Shreya Agarwal; Rongxin Yin, and Anand Prakash.
08/2024

Architecting the Future: Exploring Coordinated Control Frameworks for Connected Communities

Authors: Paul, Lazlo; Marco Pritoni; Cynthia Regnier; Jason S MacDonald; Richard E Brown, and Cecilia Johnson.
08/2024

Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects

Authors: Pereira, Guillermo; Cynthia Regnier; Lazlo Paul; Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson.
08/2024

Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility

Authors: Casillas, Armando; Thomas Defauw; Sang woo Ham; Dre Helmns; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Weiping Huang; Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2024

Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Michael Wetter; Lazlo Paul; Weiping Huang; Steven Bushby; Parastoo Delgoshaei; Michael Poplawski; Avijit Saha; Gabe Fierro; Matt Steen; Joel Bender, and Paul Ehrlich.
08/2024

Innovating the next generation of commercial smart building software

Authors: Casillas, Armando; Jessica Granderson; Yimin Chen; John House; Guanjing Lin; Weiping Huang; Guhan Velmurugan, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2024

Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings

Authors: Ham, Sang woo; Lazlo Paul; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; Donghun Kim; Richard E Brown; Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant.
08/2024

Through the looking glass: analyzing barriers to adoption of advanced rooftop unit controls through human-centered observational research

Authors: Agarwal, Shreya; Marco Pritoni; Jessica Collier; Jeff Wanner; Ruth Taylor; Meghan McNulty, and Mary M Bryan.
08/2024

Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building

Authors: Ham, Sang woo; Lazlo Paul; Donghun Kim; Marco Pritoni; Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng.
05/2024

Field Performance of Commercial Building Load Flexibility Using Model Predictive Control

Authors: Zanetti, Ettore; David Blum; Marco Pritoni, and Mary Ann Piette.
07/15/2024

2023

Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility

Authors: Liu, Jingjing; Lili Yu; Rongxin Yin; Mary Ann Piette; Marco Pritoni; Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz.
12/2023

Open Building Operating System: an Open-Source Grid Responsive Control Platform for Buildings

Authors: Paul, Lazlo; Flavia deAndrade Pereira; Sang woo Ham; Marco Pritoni; Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng.
06/2023

Implementation and test of an automated control hunting fault correction algorithm

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Marco Pritoni; Yimin Chen; Raphael Vitti; Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson.
01/2023

2022

Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings

Authors: Liu, Jingjing; Rongxin Yin; Lili Yu; Mary Ann Piette; Marco Pritoni; Armando Casillas; Jiarong Xie; Tianzhen Hong; Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz.
12/2022

Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub

Authors: Piette, Mary Ann; Jingjing Liu; Bruce Nordman; Sarah Josephine Smith; Richard E Brown; Marco Pritoni, and Brian F Gerke.
09/2022

A low-cost centralized HVAC control system solution for energy savings, load shedding, and improved maintenance

Authors: Fauchier-Magnan, Nicolas; Joshua Morejohn, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2022

Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges

Authors: Liu, Jingjing; Lili Yu; Rongxin Yin; Mary Ann Piette; Marco Pritoni; Armando Casillas; Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth.
08/2022

Cloud-Control of Legacy Building Automation System: A case study

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Marco Pritoni; Margarita Kloss; Mary Ann Piette; Michel Kamel, and Dotty Hage.
08/2022

Communication Requirements for Price-Based Grid Coordination

Authors: Nordman, Bruce; Marco Pritoni; Mary Ann Piette, and Anand Prakash.
08/2022

Detecting Passing Valves at Scale Across Different Buildings and Systems: A Brick Enabled and Mortar Tested Application

Authors: Roa, Carlos Duarte; Paul Raftery; Rupam Singla; Marco Pritoni, and Therese Peffer.
08/2022

Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly

Authors: Helmns, Dre; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; David Blum; Marco Pritoni; Spencer M Dutton; Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty.
08/2022

Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Guanjing Lin; Yimin Chen; John House; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2022

SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings

Authors: Paul, Lazlo; Anand Prakash; Kun Zhang; Marco Pritoni, and Richard E Brown.
08/2022

Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications

Authors: Roa, Carlos Duarte; Paul Raftery; Ruiji Sun; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Marco Pritoni; Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer.
08/2022

Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery

Authors: Roth, Amir; Michael Wetter; Kyle Benne; Yan Chen; Gabriel Fierro; Marco Pritoni; Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie.
08/2022

When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?

Authors: Yu, Lili; Jingjing Liu; Rongxin Yin; Mary Ann Piette; Marco Pritoni; Armando Casillas; Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth.
08/2022

From fault-detection to automated fault correction: a field study

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Guanjing Lin; Yimin Chen; Raphael Vitti; Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson.
02/2022

2021

Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Anand Prakash; Zhe Wang; Shreya Agarwal; Marco Pritoni; Mariam Kiran; Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson.
12/2021

Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Anand Prakash; Zhe Wang; Shreya Agarwal; Marco Pritoni; Mariam Kiran; Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson.
12/2021

Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications

Authors: Bennani, Imane Lahmam; Anand Prakash; Marina Zafiris; Lazlo Paul; Carlos Duarte Roa; Paul Raftery; Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro.
11/2021

An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data

Authors: Luo, Na; Marco Pritoni, and Tianzhen Hong.
09/2021

Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process

Authors: Wetter, Michael; Jianjun Hu; Anand Prakash; Paul Ehrlich; Gabe Fierro; Milica Grahovac; Marco Pritoni; Lisa Rivalin, and Dave Robin.
09/2021

Fault “Auto-correction” for HVAC Systems: A Preliminary Study

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Marco Pritoni; Yimin Chen; Christopher Weyandt; Raphael Vitti, and Jessica Granderson.
05/2021

2020

Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Marco Pritoni; Moustafa Abdelbaky; Daniel Lengyel; John Leyden; Anand Prakash; Pranav Gupta; Paul Raftery; Therese Peffer; Greg Thomson, and David Culler.
02/2021

COHORT: Coordination of Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Flexibility

Authors: Chen, Bingqing; Jonathan Francis; Marco Pritoni; Soummya Kar, and Mario Bergés.
11/2020

Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Anand Prakash; Cory Mosiman; Marco Pritoni; Paul Raftery; Michael Wetter, and David Culler.
11/2020

Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

Authors: Bergmann, Harry; Cory Mosiman; Avijit Saha; Selam Haile; William Livingood; Steven Bushby; Gabe Fierro; Joel Bender; Michael Poplawski; Jessica Granderson, and Marco Pritoni.
11/2020

Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

Authors: Fierro, Gabe; Anand Prakash; Cory Mosiman; Marco Pritoni; Paul Raftery; Michael Wetter, and David Culler.
11/2020

Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research

Authors: McIlvennie, Claire; Angela Sanguinetti, and Marco Pritoni.
10/2020

Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Anand Prakash; David Blum; Kun Zhang; Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

Beyond Curtailment and Efficiency: Identifying Household Energy- and Water-Saving Measure Classes

Authors: Sanguinetti, Angela; Claire McIlvennie; Marco Pritoni, and Susan Schneider.
08/2020

Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Marco Pritoni; Yimin Chen; Jessica Granderson; Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen.
08/2020

Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data

Authors: Liu, Jingjing; Rongxin Yin; Marco Pritoni; Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm.
08/2020

Harvesting the low-hanging fruit of high energy savings -- Virtual Occupancy using Wi-Fi Data

Authors: Clark, Callie; Anand Prakash; Marco Pritoni; Margarita Kloss; Pranav Gupta; Bruce Nordman, and Mary Ann Piette.
08/2020

Machine Learning for Automated Extraction of Building Geometry

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Marc Wudunn; Avideh Zakhor; Marco Pritoni; Reshma Singh; Harry Bergmann, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

Re-Envisioning RCx: Achieving Max Potential HVAC Controls Retrofits through Modernized BAS Hardware and Software

Authors: Paliaga, Gwelen; Rupam Singla; Coleman Snaith; Spencer Lipp; Dhananjay Mangalekar; Hwakong Cheng, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2020

Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids

Authors: Alstone, Peter; Richard E Brown; Marco Pritoni; David Blum; Kun Zhang, and Anand Prakash.
08/2020

Who Controls Energy in the Smart Home? A Multidisciplinary Taxonomy

Authors: McIlvennie, Claire; Christopher Koliba, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2020

Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Kun Zhang; Pranav Gupta; David Blum; Marc Marshall; Gabe Fierro; Peter Alstone; James Zoellic; Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni.
06/2020

Development and Implementation of Fault-Correction Algorithms in Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Marco Pritoni; Yimin Chen, and Jessica Granderson.
05/2020

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact

Authors: Prakash, Anand; Samir Touzani; Mariam Kiran; Shreya Agarwal; Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson.
11/17/2020

2019

Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States

Authors: Meier, Alan K; Tsuyoshi Ueno, and Marco Pritoni.
12/2019

Inferring occupant counts from Wi-Fi data in buildings through machine learning

Authors: Wang, Zhe; Tianzhen Hong; Mary Ann Piette, and Marco Pritoni.
05/2019

Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs

Authors: Van Cutsem, Olivier; Maher Kayal; David Blum, and Marco Pritoni.
01/2019

Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards

Authors: 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.

What can connected thermostats tell us about American heating and cooling habits?

Authors: Meier, Alan K; Leo I Rainer; Abigail A Daken; Tsuyoshi Ueno; Marco Pritoni, and Dan Baldewicz.

2018

Towards a Scalable Model for Smart Buildings

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Chris Weyandt; Diedre Carter, and John Elliott.
06/2020

Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Rebecca Ford; Beth Karlin, and Angela Sanguinetti.
02/2018

Dealing with Expected Thermal Discomfort

Authors: Panagopoulos, Athanasios Aris; Michail Katsigiannis; Marco Pritoni; Gabe Fierro; Daniel Lengyel; Therese Peffer; Georgios Chalkiadakis, and David Culler.

Smart Home Energy Management: Use Cases and Savings Opportunities

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Angela Sanguinetti; Rebecca Ford, and Beth Karlin.

2017

Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management

Authors: Ford, Rebecca; Marco Pritoni; Angela Sanguinetti, and Beth Karlin.
10/2017

Occupant thermal feedback for improved efficiency in university buildings

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Kiernan Salmon; Angela Sanguinetti; Joshua Morejohn, and Mark Modera.
06/2017

Accessing Wi-Fi Data for Occupancy Sensing

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Mary Ann Piette, and Bruce Nordman.
03/2017

Operating Systems for Small/Medium Commercial Buildings

Authors: Wen, John T; Sandipan Mishra; Marco Pritoni, and David M Auslander.

2015

Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Alan K Meier; Cecilia Aragon; Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer.
07/2015

2012

Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface

Authors: Peffer, Therese; Daniel Perry; Marco Pritoni; Cecilia Aragon, and Alan K Meier.
09/2012

Folk Labeling: Insights on Improving Usability and Saving Energy Gleaned from After-Market Graffiti on Common Appliances

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Therese Peffer; Jessica Granderson; Margarita Kloss; Alan K Meier, and Cecilia Aragon.

2011

How people use thermostats in homes: A review

Authors: Peffer, Therese; Marco Pritoni; Alan K Meier; Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry.
12/2011

Usability of Residential Thermostats: Preliminary Investigations

Authors: Meier, Alan K; Cecilia Aragon; Therese Peffer; Daniel Perry, and Marco Pritoni.
10/2011

Making Energy Savings Easier: Usability Metrics for Thermostats

Authors: Perry, Daniel; Cecilia Aragon; Alan K Meier; Therese Peffer, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2011

Measuring the Usability of Appliance Controls

Authors: Meier, Alan K; Cecilia Aragon; Daniel Perry; Therese Peffer; Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson.
03/2011

Developing standards for affordances on embedded devices: poster abstract

Authors: Perry, Daniel; Cecilia Aragon; Alan K Meier, and Marco Pritoni.

Facilitating energy savings through enhanced usability of thermostats

Authors: Meier, Alan K; Therese Peffer; Marco Pritoni; Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry.