A method to identify dynamic zones for efficient control of HVAC systems

Kumar, Vinay; Kumar, Rakesh; Patkar, Deepraj; Bopardikar, Ajit S.

doi:10.1109/iscas.2017.8050507

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“…These IoT systems can provide 3D maps of the monitored parameters in real-time, and can be used e.g. to optimize heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems [68,69] or to monitor the integrity of the building structure [70]. Such IoT systems could be readily adapted for applications targeting the microbiome, with additional sensors placed in at-risk areas.…”

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Precision public health to inhibit the contagion of disease and move toward a future in which microbes spread health

2019

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Antimicrobial resistance continues to outpace the development of new chemotherapeutics. Novel pathogens continue to evolve and emerge. Public health innovation has the potential to open a new front in the war of “our wits against their genes” (Joshua Lederberg). Dense sampling coupled to next generation sequencing can increase the spatial and temporal resolution of microbial characterization while sensor technologies precisely map physical parameters relevant to microbial survival and spread. Microbial, physical, and epidemiological big data could be combined to improve prospective risk identification. However, applied in the wrong way, these approaches may not realize their maximum potential benefits and could even do harm. Minimizing microbial-human interactions would be a mistake. There is evidence that microbes previously thought of at best “benign” may actually enhance human health. Benign and health-promoting microbiomes may, or may not, spread via mechanisms similar to pathogens. Infectious vaccines are approaching readiness to make enhanced contributions to herd immunity. The rigorously defined nature of infectious vaccines contrasts with indigenous “benign or health-promoting microbiomes” but they may converge. A “microbial Neolithic revolution” is a possible future in which human microbial-associations are understood and managed analogously to the macro-agriculture of plants and animals. Tradeoffs need to be framed in order to understand health-promoting potentials of benign, and/or health-promoting microbiomes and infectious vaccines while also discouraging pathogens. Super-spreaders are currently defined as individuals who play an outsized role in the contagion of infectious disease. A key unanswered question is whether the super-spreader concept may apply similarly to health-promoting microbes. The complex interactions of individual rights, community health, pathogen contagion, the spread of benign, and of health-promoting microbiomes including infectious vaccines require study. Advancing the detailed understanding of heterogeneity in microbial spread is very likely to yield important insights relevant to public health.

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Precision public health to inhibit the contagion of disease and move toward a future in which microbes spread health

2019

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“…The modeling and analysis of an HVAC system in the section of hot water and electrical consumption, the state space model, were identified in the study of A. Almahdi et al [8]. The study in [9] by K. Vinay et al illustrated the use of dynamic zones for efficient control of HVAC systems overcoming the limitations of static zones. Moreover, a framework for HVAC optimization and the regulated monitoring system with a graphical visualization of the real-time data has been provided by K. B. Priya and H. R. Sulbha in [10].…”

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Automatic Control Unit for Air-Condition System in Building

Tanuphol

Pothisarn

2019

MATEC Web Conf.

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Electrical energy usage has been rapidly increased in the building sector due to shifting in population from rural to urban area. In the building, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. Especially air-condition system has taken the most substantial proportion of overall building energy consumption. This result from a large amount of energy must be used in order to provide a comfort zone for occupants in the building. So, this paper aims to proposed design and built prototypes of air-condition control unit that can automatically operate according to schedule. The prototypes using a wireless module to send the control signal to the air-conditioning unit. Specific software has been built to set the desired operating schedule and duration of an operation. The performance of the proposed unit will be evaluated using an experiment on actual field test by installing on actual air-condition in the case study building. The result has shown that the proposed unit can reduce energy usage in air-conditioning significantly compare with little cost for the controller unit.

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