Design and simulation of a thermal comfort adaptive system based on fuzzy logic and on-line learning

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 367-379

  Bermejo, Pablo ^a   Redondo, Luis ^b   De La Ossa, Luis ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel ^c   Flores, Julia ^a   Urea, Carmen ^b   Gámez, José A ^a   Puerta, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b MPT   (Spain)

^c INETSIS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Comfort; Coral2K; Efficiency; Energy; Fuzzy Logic; WSN

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; COMFORT; CORAL2K; ENERGY; WSN;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; FUZZY LOGIC; THERMAL COMFORT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84861793333     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.02.032     Document Type: Article

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