A Low-Cost Monitoring Platform and Visual Interface to Analyse Thermal Comfort in Smart Building Applications Using a Citizen–Scientist Strategy

Giacomo Chiesa, Andrea Avignone and Tommaso Carluccio
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Giacomo Chiesa: Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Andrea Avignone: ICT4SS, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, Italy
Tommaso Carluccio: ICT4SS, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-30

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: thermal comfort; PMV; IoT; mobile app; remote monitoring; citizen science (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: 2022
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