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Article

Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control

by
Juan Gómez-Romero
,
Miguel Molina-Solana
*,
María Ros
,
M. Dolores Ruiz
and
M. J. Martin-Bautista
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2018, 10(9), 3053; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093053
Submission received: 11 July 2018 / Revised: 9 August 2018 / Accepted: 24 August 2018 / Published: 28 August 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Buildings and Indoor Air Quality)
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Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of Comfort as a Service (CaaS), a new energy supply paradigm for providing comfort to residential customers. CaaS takes into account the available passive and active elements, the external factors that affect energy consumption and associated costs, and occupants’ behaviors to generate optimal control strategies for the domestic equipment automatically. As a consequence, it releases building occupants from operating the equipment, which gives rise to a disruption of the traditional model of paying per consumed energy in favor of a model of paying per provided comfort. In the paper, we envision a realization of CaaS based on several technologies such as ambient intelligence, big data, cloud computing and predictive computing. We discuss the opportunities and the barriers of CaaS-centered business and exemplify the potential of CaaS deployments by quantifying the expected energy savings achieved after limiting occupants’ control over the air conditioning system in a test scenario.
Keywords: comfort as a service; energy management; building control; big data; ambient intelligence comfort as a service; energy management; building control; big data; ambient intelligence

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Gómez-Romero, J.; Molina-Solana, M.; Ros, M.; Ruiz, M.D.; Martin-Bautista, M.J. Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3053. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093053

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Gómez-Romero J, Molina-Solana M, Ros M, Ruiz MD, Martin-Bautista MJ. Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control. Sustainability. 2018; 10(9):3053. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093053

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Gómez-Romero, Juan, Miguel Molina-Solana, María Ros, M. Dolores Ruiz, and M. J. Martin-Bautista. 2018. "Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control" Sustainability 10, no. 9: 3053. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093053

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Gómez-Romero, J., Molina-Solana, M., Ros, M., Ruiz, M. D., & Martin-Bautista, M. J. (2018). Comfort as a Service: A New Paradigm for Residential Environmental Quality Control. Sustainability, 10(9), 3053. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093053

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