A Predictive Comfort- and Energy-aware MPC-driven Approach based on a Dynamic PMV Subjectification towards Personalization in an Indoor Climate Control Scenario

Antonios Karatzoglou, Julian Janßen, Vethiga Srikanthan, Christof Urbaczek, Michael Beigl

2018

Abstract

There exist two ways of improving the climate conditions within a building; upgrading the building insulation and applying modern heating technology, whereby the combination of both would obviously yield the best result. Recent heating technologies lay high emphasis on forward-looking behavior in order to be capable of providing both more comfort and a higher energy efficiency. Some rely on outdoor and indoor temperature predictive models. Other utilize occupancy prediction. The majority and in particular the ones based on the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV), employ a PMV-driven fixed single temperature point, range (e.g. 22-24C) or curve as reference. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid, personalized heating control approach. It combines a probabilistic occupancy prediction model together with an energy- and subjectified comfort-aware model-based predictive controller (MPC), which can be tailored dynamically to the users’ preference of comfort. Starting with a default PMV and a corresponding first temperature set point, our system learns from the users’ interaction with the system’s comfort-driven UI and adapts online the MPC’s target comfort and thereby the MPC’s optimization function respectively. We conducted a user study in a real office environment and show that our dynamic customizable approach outperforms significantly the non-dynamic one in respect of both comfort and energy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Karatzoglou A., Janßen J., Srikanthan V., Urbaczek C. and Beigl M. (2018). A Predictive Comfort- and Energy-aware MPC-driven Approach based on a Dynamic PMV Subjectification towards Personalization in an Indoor Climate Control Scenario.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-292-9, pages 89-100. DOI: 10.5220/0006702500890100

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens18,
author={Antonios Karatzoglou and Julian Janßen and Vethiga Srikanthan and Christof Urbaczek and Michael Beigl},
title={A Predictive Comfort- and Energy-aware MPC-driven Approach based on a Dynamic PMV Subjectification towards Personalization in an Indoor Climate Control Scenario},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2018},
pages={89-100},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006702500890100},
isbn={978-989-758-292-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - A Predictive Comfort- and Energy-aware MPC-driven Approach based on a Dynamic PMV Subjectification towards Personalization in an Indoor Climate Control Scenario
SN - 978-989-758-292-9
AU - Karatzoglou A.
AU - Janßen J.
AU - Srikanthan V.
AU - Urbaczek C.
AU - Beigl M.
PY - 2018
SP - 89
EP - 100
DO - 10.5220/0006702500890100