The constant connectedness of smart home devices and their sensing capabilities pose a unique threat to individuals' privacy. While users may expect devices to exhibit minimal activity while they are not performing their intended functions, this is …
In smart spaces, data flows from sensors through data processing pipelines that interpret and enrich it to realize the needs of diverse applications. Smart space data may also be stored for future analysis and processing to implement new …
Website privacy policies are often lengthy and intricate. Privacy assistants assist in simplifying policies and making them more accessible and user-friendly. The emergence of generative AI (genAI) offers new opportunities to build privacy assistants …
Buildings account for a significant share of global energy consumption, with Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems being responsible for up to 60% of a building's energy usage. For this purpose, existing scheduling and control …
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 40% to 50% of energy usage in commercial buildings, so controlling them while preserving occupants' comfort matters. State-of-the-art solutions use pervasive systems with sensors or smart devices to gauge individual thermal sensations, but assessing those methods is hard: real-world experiments are expensive, limited in access, and often overlook occupant and regional diversity.
Co-zyBench is a benchmark tool that takes a Digital Twin (DT) approach to evaluating personalized thermal comfort systems.
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 40% to 50% of energy usage in commercial buildings. Thus, innovative ways to control and manage HVAC systems while preserving occupants' comfort are required. State-of-the-art …
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a significant portion of energy consumption within buildings. In order to balance the effect of thermal comfort vis-a-vis energy savings, HVAC control strategies have been …