Conceptualisation of an IoT Framework for Multi-Person Interaction with Conditioning Systems

Alfonso P. Ramallo-González, Valentina Tomat, Pedro J. Fernández-Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Zamora-Izquierdo and Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gómez
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Alfonso P. Ramallo-González: Faculty of Computer Science, department of Information and Communication Engineering, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Valentina Tomat: Faculty of Computer Science, department of Information and Communication Engineering, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Pedro J. Fernández-Ruiz: Faculty of Computer Science, department of Information and Communication Engineering, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Miguel Ángel Zamora-Izquierdo: Faculty of Computer Science, department of Information and Communication Engineering, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gómez: Faculty of Computer Science, department of Information and Communication Engineering, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-20

Abstract: In this research, we have created a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) framework that allows for better communication between users and machines of the building. With this, users are able to express their thermal preferences so that the connected air conditioning machine could adjust automatically to the needs. In addition, people will be able to understand the conditioning operation through representations of augmented reality, closing in this way the loop of communication. The technology is highly interesting as its cost is virtually null in users with a smart-phone and an air conditioning machine connected to the Internet (as is becoming the norm). The paper shows a methodology consisting of interpreting the will of the occupants with respect to thermal comfort by an IoT platform. The paper shows several simulations performed to evaluate what would happen in a scenario of that kind. The results have shown that the IoT platform allows everybody to have their say in the comfort temperature and, more importantly, shows that the regulation following this path has to be done in a way in which over-compensation for cold or hot periods is not generated for the votes of the occupants. Overall, the system seems highly promising, and is capable of minimizing the dissatisfaction of the occupants in short times.

Keywords: thermostat; IoT; control; HVAC (list three to ten pertinent keywords specific to the article; yet reasonably common within the subject discipline) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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