HEAT-human embodied autonomous thermostat

D Li, CC Menassa, VR Kamat, E Byon - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Embodied Autonomous Thermostat (HEAT) that considers human occupants as an embodiment
of smart and connected thermostats … wall-mounted physical thermostats redundant by …

Optimized Indoor Temperature in Office Buildings Through Personalized Thermal Comfort Modeling

R Patchava - 2023 - digitalscholarship.unlv.edu
… issue, an innovative idea named Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat (HEAT) concept
was proposed. It treats human occupants as smart and connected thermostats, and it uses …

Performance evaluation of personal thermal comfort models for older people based on skin temperature, health perception, behavioural and environmental variables

LA Martins, V Soebarto, T Williamson - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Personal thermal comfort models hold the promise of a more accurate way to predict thermal
comfort and therefore a more reliable approach for managing indoor thermal environments. …

Improving occupant thermal comfort through personalized space recommendation

Y Huang, RSK Gadde, S Lopes, D Li… - Journal of Computing in …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
… of remote work, job autonomy, and flexible scheduling. … or synthetic variations from thermostat
setbacks to accommodate … era, when increased job autonomy, flexible work schedules and …

Thermal sensation and occupancy-based cooperative control method for multi-zone VAV air-conditioning systems

Y Zhao, W Li, C Jiang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
… [32] proposed a new model of the Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat using the …
Some scholars also proposed an intelligent predictive thermostat using occupancy [47], and …

Development of a back-propagation neural network and adaptive grey wolf optimizer algorithm for thermal comfort and energy consumption prediction and …

L Li, Y Fu, JCH Fung, H Qu, AKH Lau - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems provide a comfortable indoor
thermal environment, but in the process of attaining appropriate indoor thermal comfort levels, …

Personalized Thermal Comfort Model for a Multiple Occupancy Office Building

R Patchava, JH Lee - Computing in Civil Engineering 2023 - ascelibrary.org
… Typically, the thermostat settings for achieving individual thermal comfort will be determined
by the unique thermal preferences of each occupant. Hence, we considered the thermal …

Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic

M Awada, B Becerik-Gerber, S Hoque, Z O'Neill… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, people spent on average around 90% of their time
indoors. Now more than ever, with work-from-home orders in place, it is crucial that we …

Digital ID framework for human-centric monitoring and control of smart buildings

M Deng, X Wang, D Li, CC Menassa - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
… The final decision can be transferred to a smart thermostat (eg, NEST) to control the indoor
HEAThuman embodied autonomous thermostat. Building and Environment, 178: 106879. …

[HTML][HTML] A review on occupancy prediction through machine learning for enhancing energy efficiency, air quality and thermal comfort in the built environment

W Zhang, Y Wu, JK Calautit - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
… Also, sensors that record the indoor temperature and relative humidity are generally used
to operate window opening and thermostat adjustments. These sensors, however, should be …