Smart Buildings

Energy Efficiency & Occupant Comfort are Inseparable in the Smart Building Context

Occupant centric controls (OCC) is a key approach to smart buildings. Gathering adaptive control parameters, such as occupant or environmental data, to improve occupant comfort, energy efficiency, and other smart building objectives. The industry understands the need for OCC but numerous research studies in the past year have highlighted the fact that there have been very few real-world OCC implementations, and that means a lot of unanswered questions. “We scanned the literature for relevant work that has been done on this topic and analyzed its different attributes in detail,” says Ouf, an assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, and co-author of a critical review of field implementations of OCC . “We realized that very few researchers have been able to actually implement these control approaches in real buildings for many logistical reasons.” The research team, led by June Young Park […]

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