Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence
Energy consumption in the social housing sector constitutes a major economic, social, and environmental issue, because in some countries such as France, social housing accounts for about 19% of the housing sector. In addition, this sector suffers from ageing, which results in high energy consumption...
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| description | Energy consumption in the social housing sector constitutes a major economic, social, and environmental issue, because in some countries such as France, social housing accounts for about 19% of the housing sector. In addition, this sector suffers from ageing, which results in high energy consumption, deterioration in the occupant quality of life, and high pressure on the budget of low-income occupants. The reduction of the energy consumption in this sector becomes a “must”. This reduction can be achieved through energy renovation and innovation in both energy management and occupant involvement by using smart technology. This paper presents a contribution to this goal through the investigation of the impact of smart monitoring on energy savings. The research is based on monitoring of comfort conditions in an occupied social housing residence in the North of France and the use of building thermal numerical modeling. Results of monitoring show that the indoor temperature largely exceeds the regulations requirements and the use of a smart system together with occupant involvement could lead to significant savings in heating energy consumption. The novelty in this paper concerns the use of comfort data from occupied social housing residence, occupation conditions, and building thermal modeling to estimate energy savings. The proposed methodology could be easily implemented to estimate heating energy savings in social housing buildings that lack individual energy consumption monitoring. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a59ee5ac978432dbb5d2cb59c1b0ec72022-12-22T03:12:47ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092020-01-011022110.3390/buildings10020021buildings10020021Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing ResidenceKhadija Jnat0Isam Shahrour1Ali Zaoui2Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE), Université de Lille, 5900 Lille, FranceLaboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE), Université de Lille, 5900 Lille, FranceLaboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE), Université de Lille, 5900 Lille, FranceEnergy consumption in the social housing sector constitutes a major economic, social, and environmental issue, because in some countries such as France, social housing accounts for about 19% of the housing sector. In addition, this sector suffers from ageing, which results in high energy consumption, deterioration in the occupant quality of life, and high pressure on the budget of low-income occupants. The reduction of the energy consumption in this sector becomes a “must”. This reduction can be achieved through energy renovation and innovation in both energy management and occupant involvement by using smart technology. This paper presents a contribution to this goal through the investigation of the impact of smart monitoring on energy savings. The research is based on monitoring of comfort conditions in an occupied social housing residence in the North of France and the use of building thermal numerical modeling. Results of monitoring show that the indoor temperature largely exceeds the regulations requirements and the use of a smart system together with occupant involvement could lead to significant savings in heating energy consumption. The novelty in this paper concerns the use of comfort data from occupied social housing residence, occupation conditions, and building thermal modeling to estimate energy savings. The proposed methodology could be easily implemented to estimate heating energy savings in social housing buildings that lack individual energy consumption monitoring.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/10/2/21social housingsmartmonitoringheatingenergyconsumptioncomfortnumerical modeling |
| spellingShingle | Khadija Jnat Isam Shahrour Ali Zaoui Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence Buildings social housing smart monitoring heating energy consumption comfort numerical modeling |
| title | Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence |
| title_full | Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence |
| title_fullStr | Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence |
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| title_short | Impact of Smart Monitoring on Energy Savings in a Social Housing Residence |
| title_sort | impact of smart monitoring on energy savings in a social housing residence |
| topic | social housing smart monitoring heating energy consumption comfort numerical modeling |
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