Occupants' behavioural impact on energy consumption: 'human-in-the-loop' comfort process control

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 108-130

  Zeiler, Wim ^a   Vissers, Derek ^a   Maaijen, Rik ^a   Boxem, Gert ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

energy consumption; perceived comfort; process control strategy; user influence

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OCCUPANTS' BEHAVIOURS; PERCEIVED COMFORT; PERFORMANCE CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL STRATEGIES; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING; SYSTEM INSTALLATION; USER INFLUENCES;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; THERMAL COMFORT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84887972368     PISSN: 17452007     EISSN: 17527589     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2013.837252     Document Type: Article

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