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What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Buildings are designed to respond to functional and regulatory needs, providing comfortable conditions to occupants, offering satisfactory environmental settings, minimising health risks, and enhancing individual and collective quality of life. Although th ...

Oxford2024

Downscale methodology: EUCalc to CityCalc

Oleksandr Galychyn

The report describes the implementation of the procedure in EUCalc (KNIME) to develop SwissCalc, ParisCalc and LausanneCalc. The goal is to downscale levers already in EUCalc like biophysical calorie demand per person, daily calories of food wasted and the ...

Zenodo2023

Reinforcement Learning for the occupant-centric operation of building energy systems: Theoretical and experimental investigations

Amirreza Heidari

Occupant behavior, defined as the presence and energy-related actions of occupants, is today known as a key driver of building energy use. Closing the gap between what is provided by building energy systems and what is actually needed by occupants requires ...

EPFL2022

Outside dynamics for daylightful indoors

Marilyne Andersen

Access to natural light – particularly precious in northern latitudes – greatly impacts how a building is experienced by its occupants. It affects their well-being, notably from their health and biological clock perspectives, but also their perceived visua ...

2020

Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications

Andrew James Sonta, Jin Zhou

Occupants are active participants in their built environment, affecting its performance while simultaneously being affected by its design and indoor environmental conditions. With recent advances in computer modeling, simulation tools, and analysis techniq ...

2020

Privacy of Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grid

Maryam Kamgarpour, Christos Dimitrakakis

Installing smart meters to publish real-time electricity rates has been controversial while it might lead to privacy concerns. Dispatched rates include fine-grained data on aggregate electricity consumption in a zone and could potentially be used to infer ...

IEEE2019

“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Himanshu Verma

To investigate the relationship between occupants’ perception of control over building elements and their comfort, we conducted a study where two prototype office rooms were compared: while the first room allowed occupants to open or close the window and c ...

ELSEVIER2017

Sustainable Habitats – reconciling what we need with what we have

Marilyne Andersen

Efficient daylighting and solar control strategies can have a tremendous impact on energy use. But any savings can only be effective if one also carefully accounts for our comfort, well-being and health criteria. This talk will explore current research eff ...

2016

Duration models for activity recognition and prediction in buildings using Hidden Markov Models

Jean Hennebert, Nikolaos Zarkadis

Activity recognition and prediction in buildings can have multiple positive effects in buildings: improve elderly monitoring, detect intrusions, maximize energy savings and optimize occupant comfort. In this paper we apply human activity recognition by usi ...

IEEE2015

Design of a time-efficient video-goniophotometer combining bidirectional functions assessment for transmission and reflection

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Christian Roecker

A detailed knowledge of the light distribution characteristics through advanced window systems is required to improve the visual comfort of the building's occupants while controlling the propagation of daylight in rooms and the solar gains. An innovative b ...

Elsevier2005

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