[HTML][HTML] A critical review of occupant energy consumption behavior in buildings: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed

X Xu, H Yu, Q Sun, VWY Tam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior has been widely considered as one of the key influencing factors on
building energy consumption. The complexity of its formation mechanism and the dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Trends, benefits, risks, and challenges of IoT implementation in residential and commercial buildings

K Lawal, HN Rafsanjani - Energy and Built Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Residential and commercial buildings are undergoing a dramatic change, and the Internet of
Things (IoT) technologies are shaping the future of these buildings. Researchers have …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art review of occupant behavior modeling and implementation in building performance simulation

O Ahmed, N Sezer, M Ouf, LL Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

Infrared thermography of human face for monitoring thermoregulation performance and estimating personal thermal comfort

A Ghahramani, G Castro, B Becerik-Gerber… - Building and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The common practice of defining operational settings for Heating, Ventilation and Air
Conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings is to use fixed set points, which assume …

Modeling occupancy and behavior for better building design and operation—A critical review

B Dong, D Yan, Z Li, Y Jin, X Feng, H Fontenot - Building Simulation, 2018 - Springer
People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior
one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …

The emergence of explainability of intelligent systems: Delivering explainable and personalized recommendations for energy efficiency

C Sardianos, I Varlamis, C Chronis… - … Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The recent advances in artificial intelligence namely in machine learning and deep learning,
have boosted the performance of intelligent systems in several ways. This gave rise to …

[HTML][HTML] Intervening to change behaviour and save energy in the workplace: A systematic review of available evidence

SC Staddon, C Cycil, M Goulden, C Leygue… - Energy Research & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Workplaces worldwide are a major source of carbon emissions and changing energy use
behaviour in these environments has the capacity for large carbon savings. This paper …

Towards unsupervised learning of thermal comfort using infrared thermography

A Ghahramani, G Castro, SA Karvigh, B Becerik-Gerber - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Maintaining thermal comfort in built environments is important for occupant health, well-
being, and productivity, and also for efficient HVAC system operations. Most of the existing …

A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection

L Rueda, K Agbossou, A Cardenas, N Henao… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Detailed occupancy information in buildings is useful to improve the performance of energy
management systems in order to enable energy consumption savings and maintain …

Occupancy prediction through machine learning and data fusion of environmental sensing and Wi-Fi sensing in buildings

W Wang, J Chen, T Hong - Automation in Construction, 2018 - Elsevier
Occupancy information is crucial to building facility design, operation, and energy efficiency.
Many studies propose the use of environmental sensors (such as carbon dioxide, air …