Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for almost half of the
energy consumption in buildings. By benefiting from advancements in information and …

Of the six fundamental parameters in the classic heat balance model of human thermal
comfort, metabolic rate is probably the most important and yet it is the most crudely assessed …

Recent advancements in Internet of Things and Machine Learning have opened the
possibility of deploying sensors at a large scale to monitor the environment and to model …

Thermal comfort prediction can be instrumental in bridging the gap between energy
efficiency and occupants' comfort by utilizing the predicted thermal state …

Dynamic thermal comfort refers to the environmental condition with non-constant
parameters, which has attracted more concerns compared with steady-state thermal comfort …

The assurance of personal thermal comfort is a challenging and significant issue for
achieving energy savings in buildings. As age, gender, and human skin temperature have …

Personal thermal comfort models are a paradigm shift in predicting how building occupants
perceive their thermal environment. Previous work has critical limitations related to the …

Local cooling has proven to be an alternative to traditional comfort air conditioning to ensure
users' thermal comfort while conserving energy. Few studies have investigated the gender …

We recruited 72 healthy college students on a university campus in Xi'an, China to
investigate the effectiveness of heat stress relief measures (shade, mist spraying and …

Pedestrians will experience different heat stress stages from sunlight to semi-open spray
space as they shuttle through stations with spray systems. There are few studies on the …