A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy
Smart building issues are critical for current energy and comfort managing aspects in built environments. Nevertheless, the diffusion of smart monitoring solutions via user-friendly graphical interfaces is still an ongoing issue subject to the need to diffuse a smart building culture and a low-cost...
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| author | Giacomo Chiesa Andrea Avignone Tommaso Carluccio |
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| description | Smart building issues are critical for current energy and comfort managing aspects in built environments. Nevertheless, the diffusion of smart monitoring solutions via user-friendly graphical interfaces is still an ongoing issue subject to the need to diffuse a smart building culture and a low-cost series of solutions. This paper proposes a new low-cost IoT sensor network, exploiting Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms, for collecting real-time data and evaluating specific thermal comfort indicators (PMV and PPD). The overall architecture was accordingly designed, including the hardware setup, the back-end and the Android user interface. Eventually, three distinct prototyping platforms were deployed for initial testing of the general system, and we analysed the obtained results for different building typologies and seasonal periods, based on collected data and users’ preferences. This work is part of a large educational and citizen science activity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-62e87824c9c3439a9c356050854c86262023-11-23T13:38:19ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-01-0115256410.3390/en15020564A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist StrategyGiacomo Chiesa0Andrea Avignone1Tommaso Carluccio2Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, ItalyICT4SS, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, ItalyICT4SS, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, ItalySmart building issues are critical for current energy and comfort managing aspects in built environments. Nevertheless, the diffusion of smart monitoring solutions via user-friendly graphical interfaces is still an ongoing issue subject to the need to diffuse a smart building culture and a low-cost series of solutions. This paper proposes a new low-cost IoT sensor network, exploiting Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms, for collecting real-time data and evaluating specific thermal comfort indicators (PMV and PPD). The overall architecture was accordingly designed, including the hardware setup, the back-end and the Android user interface. Eventually, three distinct prototyping platforms were deployed for initial testing of the general system, and we analysed the obtained results for different building typologies and seasonal periods, based on collected data and users’ preferences. This work is part of a large educational and citizen science activity.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/2/564thermal comfortPMVIoTmobile appremote monitoringcitizen science |
| spellingShingle | Giacomo Chiesa Andrea Avignone Tommaso Carluccio A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy Energies thermal comfort PMV IoT mobile app remote monitoring citizen science |
| title | A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy |
| title_full | A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy |
| title_fullStr | A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy |
| title_short | A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy |
| title_sort | low cost monitoring platform and visual interface to analyse thermal comfort in smart building applications using a citizen scientist strategy |
| topic | thermal comfort PMV IoT mobile app remote monitoring citizen science |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/2/564 |
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