Journal article
From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control
Building simulation, v 15(6), pp 913-932
07 Dec 2021
PMID: 34904052
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Abstract
Occupants are the core of the built environment. Traditional heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy assumptions with no consideration of specific occupant information. These generalized assumptions usually do not align with the actual demand and result in over-conditioning and occupant discomfort. In recent years, with the aid of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) and Computer Science (CS), it is possible to acquire real-time and accurate occupant information to satisfy the exact thermal requirement through specific HVAC control in one particular built environment. This mechanism is called HVAC "Occupant-centric Control (OCC)." HVAC OCC strategy starts with collecting the occupant's information (e.g., presence/absence) and then applies it to meet the occupant's requirement (e.g., thermal comfort). However, even though some research studies and field pilot demonstrations have been devoted to the field of OCC, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about occupant data, which is the principal component of OCC for HVAC researchers and practitioners. To fill this gap, this review paper discusses OCC with a particular emphasis on occupant information and investigates how this information can assist HVAC operation in providing an acceptable built environment in required spaces during the required time. We provide a fine-grained, comprehensive picture of occupant information, discuss its features, the modalities of information feed-in into the HVAC control, and the application of commonly utilized occupant information for OCC.
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- Title
- From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control
- Creators
- Tao Yang - Texas A&M UniversityArkasama Bandyopadhyay - Texas A&M UniversityZheng O'Neill - Texas A&M Univ, J Mike Walker 66 Dept Mech Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 USAJin Wen - Drexel UniversityBing Dong - Syracuse University
- Publication Details
- Building simulation, v 15(6), pp 913-932
- Publisher
- Tsinghua Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 20
- Grant note
- DE-EE0008694 / U.S. Department of Energy through the Building America program; United States Department of Energy (DOE)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000728774300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85120809538
- Other Identifier
- 991019168043604721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Construction & Building Technology
- Thermodynamics