Technologies toward thermal comfort-based and energy-efficient HVAC systems: A review

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3883-3888

  Guo, Wenqi ^a   Zhou, Mengchu ^a,b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air conditioning (HVAC); Control; Heating; Ventilating; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HEATING , VENTILATING , AND AIR-CONDITIONING; HVAC SYSTEM; SYSTEM OPERATION; THERMAL COMFORT-BASED CONTROLS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALGORITHMS; CYBERNETICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEATING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PRODUCTIVITY; SENSOR NETWORKS; THERMAL COMFORT; VENTILATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 74849114258     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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