A review of smart building sensing system for better indoor environment control

B Dong, V Prakash, F Feng, Z O'Neill - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a systemic review of how indoor sensors influence in managing
optimal energy saving, thermal comfort, visual comfort, and indoor air quality in the built …

[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 …

HVAC energy savings, thermal comfort and air quality for occupant-centric control through a side-by-side experimental study

M Kong, B Dong, R Zhang, Z O'Neill - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Building sensing technologies have evolved rapidly in the last two decades in aid of
monitoring building environment and energy system performance. A series of occupancy …

A global building occupant behavior database

B Dong, Y Liu, W Mu, Z Jiang, P Pandey, T Hong… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets
collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various …

Modeling occupant behavior in buildings

S Carlucci, M De Simone, SK Firth, MB Kjærgaard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

[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 …

Modeling and control of building-integrated microgrids for optimal energy management–a review

H Fontenot, B Dong - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the system components, modeling, and control of microgrids for future
smart buildings in current literature. Microgrids are increasingly widely studied due to their …

Application and characterization of metamodels based on artificial neural networks for building performance simulation: A systematic review

ND Roman, F Bre, VD Fachinotti, R Lamberts - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
In most of the countries, buildings are often one of the major energy consumers, leading to
the necessity of achieving sustainable building designs, and to the mandatory use of …

Investigating the performance of machine learning models combined with different feature selection methods to estimate the energy consumption of buildings

X Liu, H Tang, Y Ding, D Yan - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning is considered a promising method for developing building energy-
benchmarking models. However, the high dimensionality of building energy datasets can …

Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications

E Azar, W O'Brien, S Carlucci, T Hong, A Sonta… - Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Occupants are active participants in their built environment, affecting its performance while
simultaneously being affected by its design and indoor environmental conditions. With …