The Human leading the Thermal Comfort Control

Abstract

Many buildings were designed and calculated by advanced software tools and simulation tools. However in real practice these buildings do not achieve the calculated energy efficiency, but use up to 40 to 50% more energy. One of the reasons for the discrepant ion between designed performance and real performance is the human behavior of which no real adequate integration into the design tools exists Therefore new design approaches are needed to implement the real behavior of occupants of buildings. Human-in-the-loop Technology is developed; a technology to implement user behavior. By starting from the human perspective and use available and new technology, we determined the critical performance indicators for the perceived human comfort. To further optimize the performance of these systems, further development is done into the possibilities and use of infra red heating systems for individual comfort control on workplace level.