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GeoAware: A Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Localization Agent for Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

Localizing, identifying and authenticating the individual occupants is of paramount importance for the future intelligent buildings. Although the performance of outdoor positioning systems is sufficiently good, the indoor ones have still to converge to a u ...

Ieee2016

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Since the second half of the XX century, the way new urban areas have risen next to the ancient/traditional parts of cities has been vastly unsystematic, often altering the original natural landscape and/or urban morphology significantly. This has sometime ...

2016

Energy Demand Analysis for Building Envelope Optimization for Hot Climate: A Case Study at AN Najah National University

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna

The study aims to analyse the heating and cooling demand of the An Najah university campus, and to optimize the building envelope for selected buildings, in order to achieve energy efficiency, and make use of renewable solar energy. Building and urban simu ...

2016

Improving simulation predictions of wind around buildings using measurements

Didier Vernay

Wind behavior in urban areas is receiving an increasing amount of interest from city planners and architects. In the context of Singapore, knowledge of wind behavior helps to improve building ventilation and, on a larger scale, urban ventilation. Computati ...

EPFL2015

Building occupants in the spotlight

Marilyne Andersen

Daylighting brings together questions relevant to architectural design and building engineering, but also to human physiology and behaviour. This magazine article presents a shortened version of a more comprehensive scientific paper published in the Fifty ...

2015

MEDITERRANEAN ACTIVE HOUSE: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE AND USERS IMPACT ON ENERGY AND INDOOR COMFORT IN THE NEW EFFICIENCY STANDARD FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

Arianna Brambilla

Active House is a new vision of sustainability for buildings, that aims to promote a new way of thinking about sustainability itself. The goal of the vision is to create healthier buildings, capable to assure indoor comfort minimizing the environmental imp ...

Politecnico di Milano2014

Building occupants in the spotlight: health, comfort and visual dynamics in daylit spaces

Marilyne Andersen

To embed the diversity and variability of human needs as foundational elements of daylighting design and put human occupants back at the core of the building question, we need to reach out to fundamental discoveries from neuroscience, biology and other fie ...

2014

Implementation of a Scenario-based MPC for HVAC Systems: an Experimental Case Study

Maurizio Molinari, Luca Fabietti

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems play a fundamental role in maintaining acceptable thermal comfort and air quality levels. Model Predictive Control (MPC) techniques are known to bring significant energy savings potential. Developing ...

2014

Evolution of and additional functionalities to the city energy planning platform MEU

Gaëtan Cherix, Massimiliano Capezzali, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager, Pablo Puerto, Stéphane Restani

The MEU GIS-enabled web-platform has been developed in close collaboration with four Swiss cities: it enables detailed monitoring and planning for both energy demand and supply at individual building and neighborhood level (http://meu.epfl.ch). Whereas the ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2014

Evolution of and additional functionalities to the city energy planning platform MEU

Gaëtan Cherix, Massimiliano Capezzali, Jakob Moritz Fabian Rager, Pablo Puerto, Stéphane Restani

2014

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