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As buildings contribute significantly towards global energy consumption, it is essential that the occupants receive the best comfort without utilizing further energy. This work treats building, environment and the occupants as a system, which presents the context, and the occupants also provide their comfort criteria to a black box for yielding the schedule of actions (opening/closing of doors/windows) for optimal comfort. The physical state of an office, situated in France, is recorded over a span of 100 days. This data is utilized by a physical model of the building to simulate the indoor ambience based on random sets of user actions from which an optimal schedule is obtained, representing equally best trade-off among minimal thermal and CO\(_2\)-based air quality dissatisfaction. Results indicate that adopting the proposed schedule of user actions can efficiently enhance the occupant’s comfort.
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This study has been supported by the Indian side of the project sanctioned vide DST-INRIA/2015-02/BIDEE/0978 by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA—IFCPAR).
This work benefits from the support of the INVOLVED ANR-14-CE22-0020-01 project (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/?Projet=ANR-14-CE22-0020) of the French National Research Agency, ANR: Agence Nationale de la recherche, which aims at implementing new occupant interactive energy services, like MIRROR, WHAT-IF and SUGGEST, into a positive energy building constructed at Strasbourg in France by Elithis.
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Pal, M., Alyafi, A.A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Ploix, S., Reignier, P. (2018). Enhancing Comfort of Occupants in Energy Buildings. In: Kar, S., Maulik, U., Li, X. (eds) Operations Research and Optimization. FOTA 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 225. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7814-9_10
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