This study proposes the establishment of an environmental health information management platform providing residential users with a comfortable, healthy indoor environment. Taking the S House as an example, the study: (1) assigned environmental health performance indicators, (2) established constraints to maintain environmental conditions, and (3) provided optimized management control mechanisms and methods. The environmental health information management platform provides an optimized control and solution pathway ensuring the quality of the indoor health environment and equipment energy conservation.Keywords: indoor healthy environment; energy conservation; optimal control design
Motivation and GoalIn view of the energy conservation and carbon emissions reduction trends, this study proposes the establishment of an environmental health information management platform enabling optimal control of both the quality of the indoor health environment and equipment energy conservation. Modern people spend more than 90% of their time in indoor environments, and indoor environmental quality can directly influence residents' health. In addition, because contemporary buildings do not have equipment integration or communications platforms linking different equipment items, the independent operation of equipment may cause redundant burdens on and waste of resources and energy, reducing the equipment's operating efficiency. Taking the S House as an example, this study proposes a OPEN ACCESS
This study proposes the establishment of an environmental health information management platform providing residential users a comfortable, healthy indoor environment. Taking the Fu-An Memorial Building, as an example, the design of the control logic algorithm ensures that the environmental health information management platform can simultaneously: (1) provide a healthy indoor environment and (2) realize optimized control mechanisms and methods minimizing the energy consumption of the building's environmental control equipment. Because of this, the Fu-An Memorial Building uses (1) PMV thermal comfort sensors, (2) energy-conserving environmental controls, and (3) natural ventilation to regulate the building's interior microclimate, realizing an energy-saving, environmentally-friendly, smart building. The study and building construction work revealed that the next stage should include:(1) development of an expert system to control the health environment, (2) establishment of an information processor learning mechanism, and (3) development of adaptive logic control technology.
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