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S&M2130 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2020.2635 Published: February 20, 2020 Model for Thermal Comfort and Energy Saving Based on Individual Sensation Estimation [PDF] Guillaume Lopez, Takuya Aoki, Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, and Anna Yokokubo (Received September 27, 2019; Accepted November 18, 2019) Keywords: comfort, energy, physiological signals, autoregulation, human factors
In office spaces, the ratio of energy consumption of air conditioning and lighting for
maintaining the environment comfort is about 70%. On the other hand, many people claim
being dissatisfied with the temperature of the air conditioning. Therefore, there is concern
about work efficiency reduction caused by the current air conditioning control. In this research,
we propose an automatic control system that improves both energy saving and thermal
comfort of all indoor users by quantifying individual differences in thermal comfort from vital
information, on the basis of which the optimal settings of both air conditioning and wearable
systems that can directly heat and cool individuals are determined. Various environments
were simulated with different room sizes, numbers of users in a room, and heating/cooling
conditions. The simulation results demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed system for both
energy saving and comfort maximization.
Corresponding author: Guillaume LopezThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Guillaume Lopez, Takuya Aoki, Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, and Anna Yokokubo, Model for Thermal Comfort and Energy Saving Based on Individual Sensation Estimation, Sens. Mater., Vol. 32, No. 2, 2020, p. 693-702. |