Estimating electricity saving-potential in small offices using adaptive thermal comfort
The smart control informed by IoT sensors and enabled by remotely controlled devices can optimize the building operation to minimize unnecessary energy consumption and improve indoor thermal comfort. This paper quantifies the potential for electricity savings in small office buildings from smart thermostat control and occupancy-informed smart plug control. This is done by simulating the effect of adaptive setpoint temperature, occupancy-based HVAC control, and night-purge free cooling on small office buildings across all major climate zones in the United States. Adopting these smart control measures can achieve 8.9% to 20.4% of savings in total electricity consumption of small office buildings, or equivalent to annual reductions between 12.2 kWh/m2 and 30.4 kWh/m2 in electricity usage intensity. Among all climate zones, the hot and dry climates benefit the most from proposed smart controls and achieve the highest percentages of electricity savings
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