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Recent years have seen accelerated development of building technologies that enable real time direct and/or indirect occupant control of HVAC, lighting, and plug loads. Measured and simulated tests of these occupant-centric control technologies suggest that their energy savings potential may be substantial but that savings are highly uncertain and could come at the expense of reduced occupant comfort and/or higher installed cost. This seminar seeks to clarify the definition of occupant-centric control measures and explore the degree to which these measures can balance the sometimes competing objectives of occupant comfort, energy use, and cost of deployment.
1. Developing Prospective National Technology Goals for Occupant-centric Measures
Jared Langevin, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
2. LightLearn: Reinforcement Learning for Occupant Centered Control and Controller Performance Metrics
Jose Vazquez-Canteli, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
3. Personalized Comfort Modeling for Occupant-centric Environmental Control
Stefano Schiavon, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Member, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
4. FORK: A Platform for Building Controls Using Accurate Real-Time Occupancy and Thermal Comfort Preference Estimations
Mario Berges, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA