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Consideration of occupant preferences and habits during the establishment of occupant-centric buildings: A critical review
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Highlights Occupants’ indoor environmental preferences and control habits of ECS（Environmental control system) in buildings are defined. Intelligent operation of ECS only need to consider occupants' preferences rather than completely conforming to their habits. Consideration of occupants’ preferences need to base on lower boundary of tolerance rather than comfort threshold. Combining physiological parameters is a promising perspective to realize the intelligent operation of ECS.
Abstract The intelligent operation method is used to optimize the coupling operation of environmental control systems (ECS) in buildings and is significant for mining potential energy savings and improving health and comfort levels indoors. However, automatic operation strategies have high frequency of manual override, which complicates the assurance of the expected operation effect. One of the fundamental reasons for this phenomenon is that the automatic operation strategy fails to consider the varying preferences of occupants with respect to the indoor environment and control habits of the ECS. Therefore, considering the personalized preferences and habits of occupants and actualizing intelligent operation are essential to ensuring occupants’ comfort and improving energy saving via the automatic operation of the ECS. Based on this concept, this study divided the consideration of personalized factors in intelligent operation into two stages: determining occupants’ preferences and habits and formulating the operation strategy accordingly. We reviewed research related to these two stages, and extracted the relevant information needed to propose guiding concepts for intelligent operation. Occupants’ preferences through physiological parameters and application to intelligent operation strategy were inferred to effectively achieve the operation concepts above. The results of this study reveal research gaps and offer guidelines for considering personalized factors in the intelligent operation of ECSs.
Consideration of occupant preferences and habits during the establishment of occupant-centric buildings: A critical review
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Highlights Occupants’ indoor environmental preferences and control habits of ECS（Environmental control system) in buildings are defined. Intelligent operation of ECS only need to consider occupants' preferences rather than completely conforming to their habits. Consideration of occupants’ preferences need to base on lower boundary of tolerance rather than comfort threshold. Combining physiological parameters is a promising perspective to realize the intelligent operation of ECS.
Abstract The intelligent operation method is used to optimize the coupling operation of environmental control systems (ECS) in buildings and is significant for mining potential energy savings and improving health and comfort levels indoors. However, automatic operation strategies have high frequency of manual override, which complicates the assurance of the expected operation effect. One of the fundamental reasons for this phenomenon is that the automatic operation strategy fails to consider the varying preferences of occupants with respect to the indoor environment and control habits of the ECS. Therefore, considering the personalized preferences and habits of occupants and actualizing intelligent operation are essential to ensuring occupants’ comfort and improving energy saving via the automatic operation of the ECS. Based on this concept, this study divided the consideration of personalized factors in intelligent operation into two stages: determining occupants’ preferences and habits and formulating the operation strategy accordingly. We reviewed research related to these two stages, and extracted the relevant information needed to propose guiding concepts for intelligent operation. Occupants’ preferences through physiological parameters and application to intelligent operation strategy were inferred to effectively achieve the operation concepts above. The results of this study reveal research gaps and offer guidelines for considering personalized factors in the intelligent operation of ECSs.
Consideration of occupant preferences and habits during the establishment of occupant-centric buildings: A critical review
Zhu, Han (author) / Lian, Xiangchao (author) / Liu, Yuxin (author) / Zhang, Yan (author) / Li, Zhengrong (author)
Energy and Buildings ; 280
2022-12-10
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English