From occupants to occupants:A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control  

作　　者：Tao Yang Arkasama Bandyopadhyay Zheng O’Neill Jin Wen Bing Dong 

机构地区：[1]mike walker’66 department of mechanical engineering,texas a&m university,college station,tx,77843,usa [2]department of civil,architectural&environmental engineering,drexel university,philadelphia,pa,19104,usa [3]department of mechanical and aerospace engineering,syracuse university,syracuse,ny,13244,usa

出　　处：《Building Simulation》2022年第6期913-932,共20页建筑模拟（英文）

基　　金：supported by the U.S.Department of Energy through the Building America program under award number DE-EE0008694.

摘　　要：Occupants are the core of the built environment.Traditional heating,ventilation,and air-conditioning(HVAC)systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy assumptions with no consideration of specific occupant information.These generalized assumptions usually do not align with the actual demand and result in over-conditioning and occupant discomfort.In recent years,with the aid of Information&Communication Technology(ICT)and Computer Science(CS),it is possible to acquire real-time and accurate occupant information to satisfy the exact thermal requirement through specific HVAC control in one particular built environment.This mechanism is called HVAC“Occupant-centric Control(OCC).”HVAC OCC strategy starts with collecting the occupant’s information(e.g.,presence/absence)and then applies it to meet the occupant’s requirement(e.g.,thermal comfort).However,even though some research studies and field pilot demonstrations have been devoted to the field of OCC,there is a lack of systematic knowledge about occupant data,which is the principal component of OCC for HVAC researchers and practitioners.To fill this gap,this review paper discusses OCC with a particular emphasis on occupant information and investigates how this information can assist HVAC operation in providing an acceptable built environment in required spaces during the required time.We provide a fine-grained,comprehensive picture of occupant information,discuss its features,the modalities of information feed-in into the HVAC control,and the application of commonly utilized occupant information for OCC.

关 键 词：occupant information occupant-centric control smart building HVAC energy efficiency 

分 类 号：O17[理学—数学]