Measuring Human Comfort for Smart Building Application: Experimental Set-Up using WSN

Realizing the importance of the effect of thermal comfort on the health and productivity of people, many researches have been done in this area at the beginning of last century. These works are carried out in climatic chambers or in situ, or models or with human beings. They aim to identify the conditions of comfort and acceptability of the thermal environment without trying to understand the mechanisms involved. Following this work, several indices of thermal comfort have been developed based on models of thermal comfort. The developed models are different; there are the physical models are often measuring instruments whose physical responses to the thermal environment are similar to those of the human body. Besides, one of the key objectives in studying the behavior of people in certain environmental and personal conditions is to predict the degree of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the thermal environment. The objective is to propose a predictive model of the thermal sensation of the users of indoor environments using subjective variables.