Influence of occupants’ lighting preferences on energy consumption

1. Research framework

1.1 Background

1.1.1 Buildings’ energy consumption

1.1.2 Mind thè Gap: prevision VS reality in energy consumption

1.1.3 Influence of occupants’ behaviour: actors rather than occupants

1.2 Energy-related occupants’ behaviour

1.2.1 Understanding occupants’ behaviour: simplifying thè complexity

1.2.2 Modelling occupant behaviours:

deterministic approach VS stochastic approach

1.3 Objectives

2. Stochastic approach for occupants’ behaviour

2.1 Methodology: From reality to predicted energy consumption back to reality

2.2 Database: defìnition and collection of thè hypothetical drivers

2.3 Statistical analysis

2.3.1 Different approaches

2.3.2 Deepening logistic regression: Variable selection and goodness-of-fìt

2.3.3 Validation

2.4 Implementation and simulation in energy software

3. Application: modelling and simulating occupants’ actions over

artifìcial lighting

3.1 PAPER I: Literature review of occupants’ lighting behaviour

3.2 PAPER II: light-switch stochastic modelling:

application to an office building in Prague

3.3 PAPER III: Application of users’ light-switch stochastic models to

dynamic energy simulation

4. Conclusive thinking

4.1 Mind thè gap in communication

4.2 Robustness in building design

4.3 Conclusion

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