Technologies toward thermal comfort-based and energy-efficient HVAC systems: A review

Author

Wenqi Guo ; Mengchu Zhou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

3883

Lastpage

3888

Abstract

This paper reviews thermal comfort based control strategies for modern commercial buildings with heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. In order to make HVAC systems more energy-efficient, better system operations and control algorithms for HVAC systems are demanded. Research conducted predominately within the last decade suggests that commercial building HVAC significantly influences the health, satisfaction, and productivity of the building occupants. This paper also projects the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to enhance energy efficiency of HVAC systems as well as provides comfortable environment to assure occupants´ productivities.

Keywords

HVAC; wireless sensor networks; heating-ventilating-and-air-conditioning systems; thermal comfort-based HVAC systems; thermal comfort-based control strategies; wireless sensor networks; Buildings; Control systems; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Heating; Paper technology; Productivity; Temperature control; USA Councils; Wireless sensor networks; Control; Heating; Wireless Sensor Networks; Wireless Sensors; ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346631

Filename

5346631