The Effect of Real-Time Feedback on Indoor Environmental Quality

Mobile health research field aims to provide access to healthcare anytime and anywhere through mobile computing technologies while using a cost-effective approach. Mobile health is closely related to ambient assisted living as both research fields address independence in elderly adults. Aging has become a relevant challenge, as it is anticipated that 20% of world population will be aged 60 years and older in 2050. Most people spend more than 90% of their time indoors, therefore the indoor environmental quality has a relevant impact on occupant’s health and well-being. We intended to provide real-time indoor quality monitoring for enhanced living environments and occupational health. This paper presents the AirPlus real-time indoor environmental quality monitoring system, which incorporates several advantages when compared to other systems, such as scalability, flexibility, modularity, easy installation, and configuration, as well as mobile computing software for data consulting and notifications. The results that were obtained are promising and present a significant contribution to the monitoring solutions available in the literature. AirPlus provides a rich dataset to plan interventions for enhanced indoor quality, but also to support clinical diagnostics and correlate occupant’s health problems with their living environment conditions.

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Analyzing the real-time indoor environmental quality factors considering the influence of the building occupants’ behaviors and the ventilation

Building and Environment ◽

10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.04.003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 156 ◽

pp. 99-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jimin Kim ◽

Taehoon Hong ◽

Minhyun Lee ◽

Kwangbok Jeong

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

Indoor Environmental Quality ◽

Quality Factors ◽

The Real

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A real-time management system for the indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency in a hotel guestroom

International Journal of RF Technologies ◽

10.3233/rft-200263 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Qingyun Li ◽

Choongwan Koo ◽

Lin Lu ◽

Jie Han

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Real Time ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

Time Management ◽

Hotel Industry ◽

Indoor Environmental Quality ◽

The Novel ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Green Hotel

With the concept of green hotel, the hotel industry has started to consider a sustainable design and operation to obtain more competitiveness. It is needed to implement a convenient way to recognize a real-time situation about the indoor environmental quality (e.g., temperature, relative humidity, CO2, TVOCs, PM2.5, etc.) and the relevant energy efficiency in a hotel guestroom. This study aimed to develop a scalable integrated platform for providing real-time monitoring, alert notification, and analytics so as to satisfy the level of the occupants’ comfort and satisfaction. Facility managers could gain insight from the real-time hierarchical and historical information and take actions at a point of time. The novel approach could create a comfortable and healthy environment for the occupants in a hotel guestroom while realizing the energy efficiency in real time. The proposed platform was validated with three guestrooms in a hotel, and the scalability of the system was fully confirmed. In the future studies, it is expected to deploy the proposed platform to a larger physical entity of the hotel, providing flexibility and expandability in accordance with the strategic facility planning of the hotel. Furthermore, it is planned to develop various kinds of occupant-centered services in a hotel guestroom level.

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