Computer vision to advance the sensing and control of built environment towards occupant-centric sustainable development: A critical review

J Wang, L Jiang, H Yu, Z Feng, R Castaño-Rosa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
As urban development progresses, the built environment control has faced more critical
challenges in improving energy efficiency, air quality, and environmental comfort. Occupant …

Review on occupant-centric thermal comfort sensing, predicting, and controlling

J Xie, H Li, C Li, J Zhang, M Luo - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Ensuring occupants' thermal comfort and work performance is one of the primary objectives
for building environment conditioning systems. In recent years, there emerged many …

Personal thermal comfort models with wearable sensors

S Liu, S Schiavon, HP Das, M Jin, CJ Spanos - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
A personal comfort model is an approach to thermal comfort modeling, for thermal
environmental design and control, that predicts an individual's thermal comfort response …

Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses-a review

B Yang, X Li, Y Hou, A Meier, X Cheng, JH Choi… - Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems have been adopted to create
comfortable, healthy and safe indoor environments. In the control loop, the technical feature …

State of the art review on the HVAC occupant-centric control in different commercial buildings

G Huang, ST Ng, D Li, Y Zhang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems control that takes occupant
information into account is called HVAC occupant-centric control (OCC), which strikes better …

Personal thermal comfort models based on physiological measurements–A design of experiments based review

K Chen, Q Xu, B Leow, A Ghahramani - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers have shown that the physiological-based personal comfort models (PCM) are
capable of addressing individual differences as well as transient thermal comfort. Given that …

Thermal comfort modeling when personalized comfort systems are in use: Comparison of sensing and learning methods

A Aryal, B Becerik-Gerber - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Centralized HVAC systems are usually unable to cater to individual requirements when
multiple occupants are present in the same zone. Personalized Comfort Systems (PCS) …

Smart detection of indoor occupant thermal state via infrared thermography, computer vision, and machine learning

Y He, H Zhang, E Arens, A Merritt, C Huizenga… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

State-of-the-art, challenges and new perspectives of thermal comfort demand law for on-demand intelligent control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems

X Zhao, Y Yin, Z He, Z Deng - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The indoor thermal environment in buildings, industry, and other fields greatly affects human
thermal comfort, productivity, energy consumption, and even health. The heating, ventilation …

Non-invasive infrared thermography technology for thermal comfort: A review

P Zheng, Y Liu, H Wu, H Wang - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …