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Mainstreaming Personal Comfort Systems
Can the construction and property industries implement innovative practices and technologies to improve building performance and thermal comfort?
This series of perspectives considers personal comfort systems: decentralized building thermal control, in which occupants control their local environments with personal devices while the amount of central space conditioning (HVAC) is scaled back.
Personal Comfort Systems have been shown to improve thermal satisfaction and reduce energy demand. So why hasn't it been implemented? What are the barriers preventing its adoption? What can be done to overcome this?
In the context of the climate and energy crises, clothing can reduce the energy demand associated with thermal comfort.
How can this low-energy approach to personal thermal comfort be implemented?
The IOT can coordinate PCS & HVAC systems to improve energy efficiency.
Part of a a new series on Personal Comfort Systems: How barriers to this promising approach can be overcome.
First in a new series examining how barriers to this promising approach can be overcome.
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