SPOT: A smart personalized office thermal control system

e-Energy 2013 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 237-246

  Gao, Peter Xiang ^a   Keshav, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

human thermal comfort; HVAC; personalization

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; HEATING AND COOLING; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; HVAC; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PERSONALIZATIONS; THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL COMFORT;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 84878626600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487166.2487193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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