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Query: Policy Design for Controlling Set-Point Temperature of ACs in Shared
  Spaces of Buildings   Air conditioning systems are responsible for the major percentage of energy
consumption in buildings. Shared spaces constitute considerable office space
area, in which most office employees perform their meetings and daily tasks,
and therefore the ACs in these areas have significant impact on the energy
usage of the entire office building. The cost of this energy consumption,
however, is not paid by the shared space users, and the AC's temperature
set-point is not determined based on the users' preferences. This latter factor
is compounded by the fact that different people may have different choices of
temperature set-points and sensitivities to change of temperature. Therefore,
it is a challenging task to design an office policy to decide on a particular
set-point based on such a diverse preference set. As a result, users are not
aware of the energy consumption in shared spaces, which may potentially
increase the energy wastage and related cost of office buildings. In this
context, this paper proposes an energy policy for an office shared space by
exploiting an established temperature control mechanism. In particular, we
choose meeting rooms in an office building as the test case and design a policy
according to which each user of the room can give a preference on the
temperature set-point and is paid for felt discomfort if the set-point is not
fixed according to the given preference. On the other hand, users who enjoy the
thermal comfort compensate the other users of the room. Thus, the policy
enables the users to be cognizant and responsible for the payment on the energy
consumption of the office space they are sharing, and at the same time ensures
that the users are satisfied either via thermal comfort or through incentives.
The policy is also shown to be beneficial for building management. Through
experiment based case studies, we show the effectiveness of the proposed
policy.

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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex