Understanding occupants' thermal sensation and comfort is essential to defining the
operational settings for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in …

About 40% of the energy produced globally is consumed within buildings, primarily for
providing occupants with comfortable work and living spaces. However, despite the …

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 …

The ability to measure occupants' thermal state in real time will enable major advances in
the control of air conditioning systems. This study proposes predicting occupant thermal …

The human body is governed by the physiological thermoregulation principle of balancing
the heat flux between the body itself and the ambient thermal environment. A number of data …

This work evaluated the use of thermographic cameras as a non-invasive method to
automatically model human thermal comfort in transient conditions, using data from 30 …

Non-invasive infrared thermography (IRT) technology has emerged as a promising tool for
real-time prediction of thermal comfort and offers a novel approach for controlling heating …

Individual thermal discomfort perception gives important feedback signals for energy
efficient control of building heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. However, there …

Despite the large share of energy consumption, current HVAC systems in buildings fail to
meet their primary purpose of maintaining comfortable indoor conditions. Current" one size …

Thermally comfortable indoor environments are of great importance, as modern lifestyles
often require people to spend more than 20 h per day indoors. Since most of the thermal …