A review of strategies for building energy management system: Model predictive control, demand side management, optimization, and fault detect & diagnosis

D Mariano-Hernández, L Hernández-Callejo… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Building energy use is expected to grow by more than 40% in the next 20 years. Electricity
remains the largest energy source consumed by buildings, and that demand is growing. To …

Personal thermal management techniques for thermal comfort and building energy saving

Z Ma, D Zhao, C She, Y Yang, R Yang - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Personal thermal management (PTM) technologies, which establish local thermal envelope
around human body instead of cooling/heating the entire building space, have great …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for HVAC control in commercial buildings

L Yu, Y Sun, Z Xu, C Shen, D Yue… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In commercial buildings, about 40%-50% of the total electricity consumption is attributed to
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which places an economic …

Optimal coordination of hydrogen-based integrated energy systems with combination of hydrogen and water storage

X Dong, J Wu, Z Xu, K Liu, X Guan - Applied energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of hydrogen production and storage technologies, it is possible
to develop a hydrogen-based integrated energy system (HIES) in demand side, which …

Energy-efficient personalized thermal comfort control in office buildings based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

L Yu, Z Xu, T Zhang, X Guan, D Yue - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In a shared office space, the percentage of occupants with satisfied thermal comfort is
typically low. The main reason is that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) …

Occupant satisfaction with the indoor environment in seven commercial buildings in Singapore

T Cheung, S Schiavon, LT Graham, KW Tham - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding occupants' satisfaction with their environment is an important step to improve
indoor environmental quality (IEQ). These satisfaction data are limited to Singaporean …

A systematic review of research on personal thermal comfort using infrared technology

Y Wu, J Zhao, B Cao - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Personal thermal comfort studies are crucial for balancing both human comfort and building
energy savings. Thus, personal comfort models (PCMs) are expected to play a pivotal role in …

Occupant behavior impact in buildings and the artificial intelligence-based techniques and data-driven approach solutions

B Yan, W Yang, F He, W Zeng - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior in buildings might result into gap between predicted and actual energy
use and cause indoor thermal comfort fluctuations, due to its uncertainty and …

Coordinating the operations of smart buildings in smart grids

Y Liu, N Yu, W Wang, X Guan, Z Xu, B Dong, T Liu - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
With big thermal storage capacity and controllable loads such as the heating ventilation and
air conditioning systems, buildings have great potential in providing demand response …

User-centered environmental control: a review of current findings on personal conditioning systems and personal comfort models

M André, R De Vecchi, R Lamberts - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Personal conditioning systems (PCS) enable increased thermal comfort and acceptability
conditions in a wider temperature range, resulting in energy savings. Many studies analysed …