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Inferring Clothing Insulation Levels Using Mechanisms of Heat Transfer

Abstract

To maintain productivity and alertness, individuals must be thermally comfortable in the space they occupy (whether it is a cubicle, a room, a car, etc.). However, it is often difficult to non-intrusively assess an occupant’s “thermal comfort,” and hence most HVAC engineers adopt fixed temperature settings to “err on the safe side.” These set temperatures can be too hot or too cold for individuals wearing different clothing, and as a result …

Authors

Shaabana A; Zheng R; Xu Z

Journal

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1–27

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

November 30, 2017

DOI

10.1145/3105136

ISSN

1550-4859