A personalized measure of thermal comfort for building controls

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-11

  Daum, David ^a   Haldi, Frédéric ^a   Morel, Nicolas ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Adaptive model; Building controller; Smart controller; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE METHODS; ADAPTIVE MODELS; BUILDING AUTOMATION; BUILDING CONTROLS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; FIELD STUDIES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODE OF ACTION; SHADING DEVICES; SMART CONTROL; SMART CONTROLLER; THERMAL PROFILES;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PROBABILITY; THERMAL COMFORT;

CONTROLLERS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BUILDING; CONTROL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956231082     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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