A review on optimized control systems for building energy and comfort management of smart sustainable buildings

PH Shaikh, NBM Nor, P Nallagownden… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Buildings all around the world consume a significant amount of energy, which is more or
less one-third of the total primary energy resources. This has raised concerns over energy …

A review of reinforcement learning methodologies for controlling occupant comfort in buildings

M Han, R May, X Zhang, X Wang, S Pan, D Yan… - Sustainable cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Classical building control systems are becoming vulnerable with increasing complexities in
contemporary built environments and energy systems. Due to this, the reinforcement …

Human-building interaction for indoor environmental control: Evolution of technology and future prospects

H Kim, H Kang, H Choi, D Jung, T Hong - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a data-driven literature review of human-building interaction (HBI),
which refers to the interaction between occupants and buildings. Through natural language …

Adaptive thermal comfort model for educational buildings in a hot-humid climate

LA López-Pérez, JJ Flores-Prieto… - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we show a thermal comfort field study and adaptive thermal comfort model in
educational buildings under tropical Aw climate, considering air conditioning systems (AC) …

A novel reinforcement learning method for improving occupant comfort via window opening and closing

M Han, R May, X Zhang, X Wang, S Pan, Y Da… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
An occupant's window opening and closing behaviour can significantly influence the level of
comfort in the indoor environment. Such behaviour is, however, complex to predict and …

Simulation tools application for artificial lighting in buildings

AA Baloch, PH Shaikh, F Shaikh, ZH Leghari… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lighting system design is a significant component of building and is considered as an
important aspect when addressing sustainability of buildings. Achieving sustainability in …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent systems for building energy and occupant comfort optimization: A state of the art review and recommendations

A Boodi, K Beddiar, M Benamour, Y Amirat… - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Today, buildings consume more than 40% of primary energy in and produce more than 36%
of CO2. So, an intelligent controller applied to the buildings for energy and comfort …

Intelligent multi-objective control and management for smart energy efficient buildings

PH Shaikh, NBM Nor, P Nallagownden… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy management in buildings has become an increasing trend in their transformation to
smart and efficient in utilizing energy resources. The potential affinity of these buildings is …

Intelligent context-awareness system for energy efficiency in smart building based on ontology

HE Degha, FZ Laallam, B Said - Sustainable computing: informatics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Context-awareness is an important research area. Many energy efficiency applications of
ubiquitous computing need to access some related contexts to provide the best and …

Systematic review of extended reality for smart built environments lighting design simulations

E Mohammadrezaei, S Ghasemi, P Dongre… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This systematic literature review paper explores the use of extended reality (XR) technology
for smart built environments and particularly for smart lighting systems design. Smart lighting …