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Enabling Buildings’ Comfort Using Context-Aware Technologies: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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In the study reported by this paper a systematic review was performed to identify relevant applications supported by context-aware technologies with impact in the comfort of the buildings’ occupants. Sixteen studies presenting context-aware systems with diverse aims were retrieved: visual comfort (six articles); thermal comfort (three articles); and multiple perspective comfort (seven articles). The context-aware components are diverse and include a broad range of sensing devices (i.e., to collect the identity, location and activity of the occupants and the environment conditions), reasoning mechanisms, and devices to generate proper reactions to optimize the buildings’ comfort.

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Acknowledgments

The present study was developed in the scope of the Smart Green Homes Project [POCI-01-0247 FEDER-007678] and was partially supported by National Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UI IEETA: UID/CEC/00127/2020.

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  1. Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Isabel Martins

  2. Institute of Telecommunications, Department of Electronic, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Carolina Oliveira Lima, Paulo Bartolomeu & Lucilene Ferreira Mouzinho

  3. Institute of Telecommunications, Higher School of Technology and Management of Águeda, Águeda, Portugal

    Joaquim Ferreira

  4. Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Nelson Pacheco Rocha

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Martins, A.I., Lima, A.C.O., Bartolomeu, P., Mouzinho, L.F., Ferreira, J., Rocha, N.P. (2021). Enabling Buildings’ Comfort Using Context-Aware Technologies: A Systematic Review of the Literature. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies . WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_57

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