Paper Info
Title
The Spot* System for Flexible Personal Heating and Cooling
Abstract
SPOT* is a cost-effective, legacy-compatible, flexible system for personalized heating and cooling. It senses occupancy and worker comfort uses the Predicted Mean Vote equation to determine worker comfort. It then actuates a fan or a heater to adjust the comfort level so that it lies between -0.5 and +0.5 in the ASHRAE comfort scale. SPOT* greatly reduces costs compared to our prior SPOT and SPOT+ systems by using the fewest possible sensors and a lightweight compute engine that can be located in the cloud. Moreover, SPOT* provides both cooling and heating using a speed-controlled desktop fan, rather than only controlling heating using a radiant heater. Finally, SPOT* is less intrusive in that it does not use a camera. The per-user cost for SPOT* is about $185 compared to $1000 for SPOT/SPOT+. We find that in a preliminary deployment, SPOT* is able to improve user comfort by 78% over legacy systems alone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2768510.2770944
International Conference on Future Energy Systems
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alimohammad Rabbani100.34
Srinivasan Keshav23778761.32