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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,379 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2024

A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system is designed for the entire space but falls short in meeting diverse individual needs. Therefore, the personalized environmental control system is proposed to address individual thermal requirements...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,318 Views
21 Pages

17 January 2024

Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,487 Views
17 Pages

An Open-Source Platform for Indoor Environment Monitoring with Participatory Comfort Sensing

  • Joseph Rosenberger,
  • Zhong Guo,
  • Austin Coffman,
  • Duzgun Agdas and
  • Prabir Barooah

29 December 2022

We present an open-source wireless network and data management system for collecting and storing indoor environmental measurements and perceived comfort via participatory sensing in commercial buildings. The system, called a personal comfort and indo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,010 Views
51 Pages

Personal Climatization Systems—A Review on Existing and Upcoming Concepts

  • Alexander Warthmann,
  • Daniel Wölki,
  • Henning Metzmacher and
  • Christoph Van Treeck

22 December 2018

To accomplish the current climate goals of the federal republic of Germany, energy efficiency within the building and automotive sector must improve considerably. One possible way to reduce the high amount of energy required for heating, ventilation,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,501 Views
6 Pages

1 February 2024

With the prospect of deploying intelligent thermal management in protective equipment, strategies for integrating heating and cooling actuators with modular temperature controls and automatic temperature regulation systems based on feedback from the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,328 Views
11 Pages

Assessing the Risk of Spreading COVID-19 in the Room Utilizing Low-Cost Monitoring System

  • Marek Bujňák,
  • Rastislav Pirník,
  • Pavol Kuchár and
  • Karol Rástočný

High hygiene standards were established during the COVID-19 epidemic, and their adherence was closely monitored. They included the need to regularly wash one’s hands and the requirement to cover person’s upper airways or keep at least a t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,099 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Office Comfort with Personal Comfort Systems: A Data-Driven Machine Learning Approach

  • Paulina Wegertseder-Martinez,
  • Silvia E. Restrepo-Medina,
  • Roberto Aedo-García and
  • Raul Soto-Concha

Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) have emerged as a flexible alternative to address the diversity of environmental perceptions in office environments. Unlike conventional HVAC systems, PCSs allow users to improve their satisfaction and comfort by exerci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
807 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Portable Calibration Chamber for PM Sensors Equipped with Wireless Connectivity Controlled by a Graphical Interface in Python

  • Daniel Cuevas-González,
  • Martín Aarón Sánchez-Barajas,
  • Marco A. Reyna,
  • Juan Pablo García-Vázquez,
  • Eladio Altamira-Colado and
  • Roberto L. Avitia

The health impact of air pollutants has generated a trend in the design and manufacture of portable, personal and fixed PM monitoring systems to help reduce exposure to air pollutants. However, these devices still need to be improved and properly eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,063 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2021

Gender equality at work in male-dominated industries is conditioned by intrinsic systemic issues which established policies have, to a significant extent, failed to address, as women’s participation remains under-represented. This study argues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,710 Views
27 Pages

Occupants’ Decision-Making of Their Energy Behaviours in Office Environments: A Case of New Zealand

  • Achini Shanika Weerasinghe,
  • Eziaku Onyeizu Rasheed and
  • James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi

27 January 2023

Understanding how occupants behave and interact with building systems is vital to energy efficiency in buildings. The building occupants’ behaviours are complex and influenced by diverse factors. A deep understanding of the underlying environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,320 Views
12 Pages

Aerostability of Sin Nombre Virus Aerosol Related to Near-Field Transmission

  • Elizabeth A. Klug,
  • Danielle N. Rivera,
  • Vicki L. Herrera,
  • Ashley R. Ravnholdt,
  • Daniel N. Ackerman,
  • Yangsheng Yu,
  • Chunyan Ye,
  • Steven B. Bradfute,
  • St. Patrick Reid and
  • Joshua L. Santarpia

Sin Nombre virus (SNV) is the main causative agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in North America. SNV is transmitted via environmental biological aerosols (bioaerosols) produced by infected deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). It is s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,048 Views
18 Pages

Data-Driven Control Algorithm for Snake Manipulator

  • Kai Hu,
  • Lang Tian,
  • Chenghang Weng,
  • Liguo Weng,
  • Qiang Zang,
  • Min Xia and
  • Guodong Qin

2 September 2021

In some environments where manual work cannot be carried out, snake manipulators are instead used to improve the level of automatic work and ensure personal safety. However, the structure of the snake manipulator is diverse, which renders it difficul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,469 Views
31 Pages

Personal Comfort Systems (PCSs) have emerged as an innovative solution to address variable individual conditions that traditional comfort models excluded. This study investigates the impact of the simultaneous application and use of three PCSs in rea...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,605 Views
11 Pages

15 September 2024

The traditional catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) using metal oxide catalysts often requires either high temperatures (thermocatalysis) or ultraviolet light (UV) excitation (photocatalysis), limiting practical applications under ambient con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,517 Views
25 Pages

Personalization of the MES System to the Needs of Highly Variable Production

  • Bożena Zwolińska,
  • Agnieszka Anna Tubis,
  • Norbert Chamier-Gliszczyński and
  • Mariusz Kostrzewski

13 November 2020

The new generation Manufacturing Executions System (MES) is considered as one of the most important solutions supporting the idea of Industry 4.0. This is confirmed by research conducted among companies interested in the implementation of the Industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,194 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2022

Environmental governance is one of the priority tasks that is faced by China in its drive for sustainable social development. Environmental protection necessitates an equal focus on pollution-source control and pollution governance, and it shall be s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,910 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

Office-based environmental control systems are centralized and designed to control entire spaces, ignoring use dynamics and requirements, and despite being regulated by standardized comfort models, they fail to satisfy real occupants, mainly due to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,792 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing Occupant Comfort in a Room Using the Predictive Control Model as a Thermal Control Strategy

  • Mihaela-Gabriela Boicu,
  • Grigore Stamatescu,
  • Ioana Făgărăşan,
  • Mihaela Vasluianu,
  • Giorgian Neculoiu and
  • Marius-Alexandru Dobrea

14 June 2024

Thermal comfort strategies represent a very important aspect when it comes to achieving thermal comfort conditions. At the same time, recently, there has been a growing interest in user-centered building control concepts. Thus, this work focuses on d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,555 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

In Mobility as a Service (MaaS), walking plays a crucial role in connecting various modes of transportation. In order to provide more accurate predictions of walking travel time, a comprehensive and in-depth study is required to examine the factors t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,420 Views
23 Pages

16 June 2015

This paper presents a proof of concept from which the metaphor of “fair trade” is validated as an alternative to manage the private information of users. Our privacy solution deals with user’s privacy as a tradable good for obtaining environmental se...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,740 Views
30 Pages

Research Progress and Future Prospects of Brake-by-Wire Technology for New Energy Vehicles

  • Zhengrong Chen,
  • Ruochen Wang,
  • Renkai Ding,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Dong Sun and
  • Zhongyang Guo

23 May 2025

The energy crisis and environmental pollution have driven the rapid development of new energy vehicles (NEVs). As a core technology for integrating electrification and intelligence in NEVs, the brake-by-wire (BBW) system has become a research hotspot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,798 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2024

Local governments excessively pursued an economic growth-oriented incentive system while neglecting air pollution control for a long time in China. The impacts of environmental assessment and public appeal could potentially promote environmental gove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,780 Views
12 Pages

4 August 2017

This article proposes a novel, web-based, remote monitoring and control system design for a building’s electrical power, green power generation and environmental system that will save energy. The supervisory control system is based on the use of dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,884 Views
30 Pages

A Pilot Study on Thermal Comfort in Young Adults: Context-Aware Classification Using Machine Learning and Multimodal Sensors

  • Bibars Amangeldy,
  • Timur Imankulov,
  • Nurdaulet Tasmurzayev,
  • Serik Aibagarov,
  • Nurtugan Azatbekuly,
  • Gulmira Dikhanbayeva and
  • Aksultan Mukhanbet

30 July 2025

While personal thermal comfort is critical for well-being and productivity, it is often overlooked by traditional building management systems that rely on uniform settings. Modern data-driven approaches often fail to capture the complex interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,602 Views
13 Pages

An Innovative Polymeric Platform for Controlled and Localized Drug Delivery

  • Monica Elbjorn,
  • Jacob Provencio,
  • Paige Phillips,
  • Javier Sainz,
  • Noah Harrison,
  • David Di Rocco,
  • Ada Jaramillo,
  • Priya Jain,
  • Alejandro Lozano and
  • R. Lyle Hood

Precision medicine aims to optimize pharmacological treatments by considering patients’ genetic, phenotypic, and environmental factors, enabling dosages personalized to the individual. To address challenges associated with oral and injectable a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,486 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Environmental Modeling of Autoantibody Outcomes among an African American Population

  • Rachel Carroll,
  • Andrew B. Lawson,
  • Delia Voronca,
  • Chawarat Rotejanaprasert,
  • John E. Vena,
  • Claire Marjorie Aelion and
  • Diane L. Kamen

In this study of autoimmunity among a population of Gullah African Americans in South Carolina, the links between environmental exposures and autoimmunity (presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA)) have been assessed. The study population included pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,904 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid Device Fabrication Using Roll-to-Roll Printing for Personal Environmental Monitoring

  • Thanh Huy Phung,
  • Anton Nailevich Gafurov,
  • Inyoung Kim,
  • Sung Yong Kim,
  • Kyoung Min Kim and
  • Taik-Min Lee

15 June 2023

Roll-to-roll (R2R) printing methods are well known as additive, cost-effective, and ecologically friendly mass-production methods for processing functional materials and fabricating devices. However, implementing R2R printing to fabricate sophisticat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,315 Views
29 Pages

Land Registry Framework Based on Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) for Environmental Sustainability

  • Mohammed Shuaib,
  • Noor Hafizah Hassan,
  • Sahnius Usman,
  • Shadab Alam,
  • Surbhi Bhatia,
  • Parul Agarwal and
  • Sheikh Mohammad Idrees

30 April 2022

Providing a system user with a unique and secure identity is a prerequisite for authentication and authorization aspects of a security system. It is generally understood that the existing digital identity systems store the identity details in central...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,877 Views
31 Pages

A Smart Building Resource Prediction, Navigation and Management System Supported by Radio Tomography and Computational Intelligence

  • Michał Styła,
  • Przemysław Adamkiewicz,
  • Tomasz Cieplak,
  • Stanisław Skowron,
  • Artur Dmowski and
  • Józef Stokłosa

8 December 2021

This article presents research results on a smart building prediction, navigation and asset management system. The main goal of this work was to combine all comfort subsystems, such as lighting, heating or air conditioning control, into one coherent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,953 Views
17 Pages

An Active Indoor Noise Control System Based on CS Algorithm

  • Weige Tao,
  • Yue Ma,
  • Shuyan Xiao,
  • Qin Cheng,
  • Yongxing Wang and
  • Zhengyu Chen

15 September 2022

Environmental noise causes enormous harm to human health. This research suggests an active noise control (ANC) system based on the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm to reduce indoor noise pollution. The indoor environment’s ANC is more complicated t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,284 Views
8 Pages

Improving Collaborative Robotic Complex Efficiency: An Approach to the Intellectualization of the Control System

  • Mikhail Gorkavyy,
  • Yuri Ivanov,
  • Sergey Sukhorukov,
  • Sergey Zhiganov,
  • Makrel Melnichenko,
  • Alexander Gorkavyy and
  • Daniil Grabar

This paper proposes an original approach to improving the efficiency of technological processes based on collaborative robots, which differs from the existing ones by the possibility of intensifying the process of modeling the human factor when formi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,675 Views
24 Pages

Comfort and Economic Viability of Personal Ceiling Fans Assisted by Night Ventilation in a Renovated Office Building

  • Mattis Knudsen,
  • Romina Rissetto,
  • Nicolas Carbonare,
  • Andreas Wagner and
  • Marcel Schweiker

23 February 2023

An expected increase in the use of air conditioning by 2050 will significantly increase electricity demand and come at a cost to the environment. Implementing passive cooling strategies and focusing on personal environmental control systems (PECSs) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,735 Views
12 Pages

Intelligent Personalized Lighting Control System for Residents

  • Jialing Zhang,
  • Zhanxu Chen,
  • An Wang,
  • Zhenzhang Li and
  • Wei Wan

27 October 2023

The demand for personalized lighting environments based on households is steadily increasing among users. This article proposes a novel intelligent control system for personalized lighting in home environments, aiming to automatically capture user in...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,226 Views
6 Pages

Design, Environment, Energy, and Comfort in Buildings Equipped with a PMV-Controlled HVAC System

  • Eusébio Conceição,
  • Margarida Conceição,
  • Maria Inês Conceição,
  • Maria Manuela Lúcio and
  • Hazim Awbi

24 October 2023

This work presents a study about the design, environment, energy, and comfort in buildings equipped with a Predicted Mean Vote (PMV)-controlled HVAC system. The control system, based on the three categories of the international standard ISO 7730 uses...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,363 Views
13 Pages

Eco-Friendly and COVID-19 Friendly? Decreasing the Carbon Footprint of the Operating Room in the COVID-19 Era

  • Christos Tsagkaris,
  • Hamayle Saeed,
  • Lily Laubscher,
  • Anna Eleftheriades,
  • Sofoklis Stavros,
  • Eirini Drakaki,
  • Anastasios Potiris,
  • Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos,
  • Dimos Sioutis and
  • Periklis Panagopoulos
  • + 1 author

2 November 2023

Surgery is one of the most energy-intensive branches of healthcare. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced surgical volumes, infection control protocols have increased the ecological footprint of surgery owing to the extensive use of personal pro...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,631 Views
8 Pages

16 October 2020

Due to inherent and systemic biases, animal control policies in the US are over-enforced in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in worse health outcomes for the pets in these communities. These outcomes are exemplified by highe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,127 Views
28 Pages

2 February 2022

Thermal comfort is one of the most important factors for occupant satisfaction and, as a result, for the building energy performance. Decentralized heating and cooling systems, also known as “Personal Environmental Comfort Systems” (PECS)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,046 Views
26 Pages

Advancements in Clothing Thermal Comfort for Cold Intolerance

  • Amare Abuhay,
  • Melkie Getnet Tadesse,
  • Baye Berhanu,
  • Benny Malengier and
  • Lieva Van Langenhove

31 January 2025

Due to constantly shifting environmental and personal circumstances, humans have a wide range of thermal comfort needs. Cold intolerance (CI) is a personalized thermoregulation disorder characterized by a persistently cold-feeling problem, regardless...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,905 Views
37 Pages

In modern agriculture, plant protection is the key to ensuring crop health and improving yields. Intelligent pesticide prescription spraying (IPPS) technologies monitor, diagnose, and make scientific decisions about pests, diseases, and weeds; formul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,763 Views
24 Pages

Harnessing Gut Microbiota for Biomimetic Innovations in Health and Biotechnology

  • Ana Isabel Beltrán-Velasco and
  • Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

The gut microbiota is a complex and dynamic ecosystem that plays a fundamental role in human health by regulating immunity, metabolism, and the gut–brain axis. Beyond its critical physiological functions, it has emerged as a rich source of insp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,512 Views
11 Pages

Establishment and Social Impacts of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta, (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Taiwan

  • Yu-Sheng Liu,
  • Sin-An Huang,
  • I-Lin Lin,
  • Chung-Chi Lin,
  • Hung-Kuan Lai,
  • Chun-Hsiang Yang and
  • Rong-Nan Huang

The first report of the red imported fire ant (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta Buren, in Taiwan was in the city of Taoyuan in 2003. The government has made great efforts to bring RIFA-infested areas under control. RIFA has gradually spread outward since it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,970 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2023

Most conventional speech recognition systems have mainly concentrated on voice-driven control of personal user devices such as smartphones. Therefore, a speech recognition system used in a special environment needs to be developed in consideration of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,203 Views
33 Pages

WHISPER: Wireless Home Identification and Sensing Platform for Energy Reduction

  • Margarite Jacoby,
  • Sin Yong Tan,
  • Mohamad Katanbaf,
  • Ali Saffari,
  • Homagni Saha,
  • Zerina Kapetanovic,
  • Jasmine Garland,
  • Anthony Florita,
  • Gregor Henze and
  • Soumik Sarkar
  • + 1 author

Many regions of the world benefit from heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to provide productive, comfortable, and healthy indoor environments, which are enabled by automatic building controls. Due to climate change, population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
8,829 Views
19 Pages

With the rapid growth of urban economy and population in China, the output of municipal solid waste (MSW) has dramatically increased becoming a constant threat to residents’ living environment and health. The classification intention of residen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,271 Views
12 Pages

GDF5 rs143384 Polymorphism Associated with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Brazilian Patients: A Case-Control Study

  • Jamila Alessandra Perini,
  • Raphael Wallace Campos Cunha,
  • Marco Bernardo Cury Fernandes,
  • Lourenço Pinto Peixoto,
  • João Antônio Matheus Guimarães,
  • Amanda dos Santos Cavalcanti and
  • Jéssica Vilarinho Cardoso

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a multifactorial and polygenic abnormal hip joint development, with a prognosis influenced by environmental and genetic factors, potentially leading to complete dislocation. Growth differentiation factor 5...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,909 Views
12 Pages

Investigation of a Cluster of Immunization Stress-Related Reactions after Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination, Thailand, 2021

  • Chayanit Mahasing,
  • Oiythip Yasopa,
  • Chalo Sansilapin,
  • Thanit Rattanathumsakul,
  • Panithee Thammawijaya,
  • Rapeepong Suphanchaimat and
  • Pawinee Doung-ngern

14 March 2022

On 28 April 2021, the investigation team of the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, was notified of a cluster of people developing neurological symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination in a province in eastern Thailand. We conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,077 Views
25 Pages

18 July 2025

Power-to-X (ptx) technologies are considered a promising solution for enabling the storage and sectoral integration of renewable energy, playing a vital role in the sustainable transition of industrialized energy systems. This study investigates the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,825 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2015

Celiac disease (CD) is a systemic immune-mediated disorder caused by the ingestion of gluten-containing grains in genetically susceptible persons. It is one of the most common lifelong disorders, affecting approximately 1% of the general population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,860 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2021

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specific...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
248 Views
24 Pages

A Review of Indoor Thermal Comfort Studies on Older Adults in China

  • Jia Li,
  • Mohd Farid Mohamed and
  • Wardah Fatimah Mohammad Yusoff

28 November 2025

This review systematically examines research on indoor thermal comfort for older adults conducted in China since 2010. It highlights several existing research gaps, including the lack of a systematic understanding of environmental and individual infl...

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