Providing proper thermal comfort to individual occupants is crucial to improve well-being and work efficiency. However, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for a large portion of energy consumption and CO2 …
Web-CozyBench is a web-based benchmarking platform built on Co-zyBench to evaluate occupant-centric HVAC control systems using Digital Twin simulations. It provides a GUI for defining building and occupant scenarios, selecting control strategies, …
This paper presents DigiGuide, an innovative system that leverages Digital Twin (DT) methodologies combined with multi-objective optimization algorithms to guide occupants to spaces that best meet their multi-variant comfort needs. DigiGuide …
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning accounts for roughly 40–60% of a building’s energy use, yet the reason to run it at all is the comfort of the people inside. Pervasive and mobile computing makes it possible to sense individual thermal sensations and manage HVAC around them, but evaluating such systems is hard: real-world experiments are expensive, slow, privacy-sensitive and rarely cover the diversity of occupants and climates, while simulations have to be shown to reflect reality.