01978nas a2200145   4500008004100000022001300041245012900054210006900183260001600252300001100268520142500279100001401704700001901718856009501737       2019                        eng d  a1364032100aLearning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States0 aLearning occupants indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian  cJan-11-2019  a1095933 a<p>A carefully chosen indoor comfort temperature as the thermostat set-point is the key to optimizing building energy use and occupants’ comfort and well-being. ASHRAE Standard 55 or ISO Standard 7730 uses the PMV-PPD model or the adaptive comfort model that is based on small-sized or outdated sample data, which raises questions on whether and how ranges of occupant thermal comfort temperature should be revised using more recent larger-sized dataset. In this paper, a Bayesian inference approach has been used to derive new occupant comfort temperature ranges for U.S. office buildings using the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database. Bayesian inference can express uncertainty and incorporate prior knowledge. The comfort temperatures were found to be higher and less variable at cooling mode than at heating mode, and with significant overlapped variation ranges between the two modes. The comfort operative temperature of occupants varies between 21.9 and 25.4°C for the cooling mode with a median of 23.7°C, and between 20.5 and 24.9°C for the heating mode with a median of 22.7°C. These comfort temperature ranges are similar to the current ASHRAE standard 55 in the heating mode but 2-3°C lower in the cooling mode. The results of this study could be adopted as more realistic thermostat set-points in building design, operation, control optimization, energy performance analysis, and policymaking.</p>1 aWang, Zhe1 aHong, Tianzhen  uhttps://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/publications/learning-occupants%E2%80%99-indoor-comfort