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Overview of Smart Management Approaches for Heating / Cooling Systems in Buildings

The development of smart technologies in the building sector provides better insight into occupant behavior and brings new opportunities for energy and performance management. Smart technological solutions are being applied in various segments of building performance. Within heating and cooling systems, new trends are directed toward developing novel operation and regulation strategies based on the input from sensory devices. Proposed studies through the literature are trying to provide more comfortable environmental conditions for the occupants in the buildings, putting users as the crucial factors for system design while considering also rational energy usage. Because smart buildings are increasing as the area of research, this paper aims to systematize the methods for the smart optimization of the heating/cooling systems in the buildings and provide an overview of the proposed solutions available in the literature (i.e., Scopus database) and highlight novel trends in smart management of the heating/cooling systems. The overview was performed with respect to the type of heating/cooling system, controlling mechanism/principle, data collection devices, and corresponding interface, as well as the location of the building in each study. Finally, the energy-saving potential of the proposed systems was tackled in the overview as well.

smart buildings, HVAC, energy efficiency

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