Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems have been adopted to create
comfortable, healthy and safe indoor environments. In the control loop, the technical feature …

Researchers have shown that the physiological-based personal comfort models (PCM) are
capable of addressing individual differences as well as transient thermal comfort. Given that …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has recently brought an influential research and analysis
platform in a broad diversity of academic and industrial disciplines, particularly in healthcare …

Understanding occupants' thermal sensation and comfort is essential to defining the
operational settings for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in …

Abstract Vision-based (camera-based) systems, which can effectively sense occupant
information, have garnered attention as a core technology in the Fourth Industrial …

Artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision (CV), machine learning, Internet
of Things (IoT), and robotics have advanced rapidly in recent years. The new technologies …

Facial skin temperature has been applied to evaluate thermal comfort in a few studies, but
the related theoretical basis is not sufficient. We conducted a climate‐controlled experiment …

People spend most of their day in buildings, and a large portion of the energy in buildings is
used to control the indoor environment for creating acceptable conditions for occupants …

This study analyzed the influencing factors of the thermal infrared imager's measurement of
facial skin temperature based on infrared radiation theory, temperature measurement …

Real-time and accurate prediction of indoor thermal demands is of great significance for
improving building energy control and human satisfaction. This study proposes a system for …