Emerging Technologies: Optimal Whole Building Control Systems

This is the 30th article inspired by a DOE report covering energy-saving HVAC technologies. Centralized building controls, particularly as part of an energy management and control system (EMCS), have the potential to perform many different building functions. Optimal whole building control systems (OWBCS) are emerging products that aim to optimize building energy costs and consumption. They differ from EMCSs in their ability to make intelligent building control decisionsakin to the reasoning capabilities of a human expertwithout human intervention.

Citation: ASHRAE Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, March 2006



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