Analysis of the thermal comfort and power consumption in apartment domain

Nowadays, energy saving in living space is the most popular issue in many countries. Several domains relate to the energy saving issue. One of them is a thermal comfort domain. The ways to analyze and control the room temperature have been proposed in several research works, especially in home domain. However, considering only home structure is not enough for energy management system (EMS) in the city. Other building structures are needed to be identified. In this paper, we aim to analyze the room temperature and the power consumption in an apartment domain. An apartment simulation is developed to simulate the environment data in each room. The results showed that each room in apartment could transfer the heat to other rooms through the walls. The neighbor rooms temperature also affects the use of air-conditioner. When the room temperature is high, the air-conditioner has to operate the maximum power to change the room temperature reaching a suitable comfortable level.