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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2019.080</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2019.080</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Energy-efficient control of indoor thermal environment by occupants positioning and comfort range recognition using smart bracelet</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Chen</surname><given-names>Hong Jie</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        <email>sti70409@gmail.com</email>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name><surname>Wang</surname><given-names>Fulin</given-names></name>
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        <email>flwang@tsinghua.edu.cn</email>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Yan</surname><given-names>Rui</given-names></name>
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        <email>yanruiqq135@163.com</email>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Zhao</surname><given-names>Lige</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        <email>709825022@qq.com</email>
      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">Beijing Key Laboratory of Indoor Air Quality Evaluation and Control, Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>10</day><month>02</month><year>2020</year></pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-331-8</isbn>
      <fpage>188</fpage>
      <lpage>195</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2019.080"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>10 February 2020</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2019 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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      <abstract><p>Nowadays, wearable devices are increasingly worn by people which they provide a good opportunity to use such devices to improve indoor thermal environment control. This paper proposed an energy-efficient control method for the indoor thermal environment by occupants positioning and comfort range recognition using a smart bracelet. The smart bracelet measures people’s skin temperatures continuously, which is used to on-line learn room occupants’ thermal comfort ranges and recognise the thermal comfort states. The smart bracelet is also used to identify the trajectory and position of an object by the value of acceleration data provided by the inertial sensor. Then the positioning information and thermal comfort state information are used to achieve locally personalised thermal environment control, which could be both energy efficient and thermally comfortable. Experiments were conducted to verify the performance of the proposed control method. Experiment results show that the proposed control method has advantages in reducing user’s complaints of thermal discomfort and consumes 12.6% less energy than the traditional control method of giving temperature set-points by room occupants.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Indoor thermal environment control</kwd>
        <kwd>skin temperature</kwd>
        <kwd>thermal comfort</kwd>
        <kwd>positioning</kwd>
        <kwd>energy saving</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>20 to 22 August 2019</conf-date>
        <conf-name>18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2019</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>18</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</conf-loc>
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