*Correspondence: Dennis Y. C. Leung, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected] With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the twenty-first century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor polluti...

UNLABELLED On the international level, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) are writing and reviewing standards relating to the indoor environment on a regular basis. This presentation will focus on the development of standards for the indoor therm...

This paper presents a novel technique to switch automatically between indoor and outdoor modes in an oncampus positioning system. This system uses Wi-Fi fingerprinting for indoor positioning, and GPS for outdoor positioning, and provides useful information to students about their location, and what surrounds them. The technique described in this paper detects when the user comes in or out of a ...

In this paper, we present the method of localization system that uses iGPS (indoor GPS) sensor and Omni-directional vision sensor in the environment involving land mark. The indoor GPS (iGPS) is a simple and cheap localization sensor in the indoor environment. However, the error range of iGPS is too wide to be used in a small size robot. This paper presents a more accurate method of localizatio...

Indoor and urban positioning is an important market which is foreseen to grow significantly in the future years. Unfortunately, in indoor and urban environment the classical mean of positioning based on Global Navigation

Accurate and reliable CFD simulation of temperature stratification in indoor environment is needed for the design and evaluation of displacement ventilation in buildings. This paper presents a detailed and systematic evaluation of the capability of 3D steady RANS CFD simulations to predict the temperature stratification in a room. The evaluation is based on sensitivity analysis and validation w...

Nowadays, energy saving is one of the most important factor to consider. Automated lighting systems are a solution for efficient use of lighting which forms a large part of world’s total energy consumption. However, today automated lighting solution when employed in indoor environments like homes and offices are not very effective. Since indoor environment have users with different and varying ...

This paper investigates modeling indoor environments using a low-cost compact active range camera, known as BIRIS , mounted onto a pan and tilt motor unit. The BIRIS sensor, developed at the National Research Council of Canada, is a rugged small camera with no moving parts. The contributions of this paper are mainly in three areas: it demonstrates the viability of the use of a low-cost range se...

Few epidemiological studies have examined the effects of season on symptoms typical of sick building syndrome (SBS). The present study aims to clarify seasonal variation in a perceived indoor environment and SBS symptoms in a temperate climate. A total of 116 workers were recruited from office buildings in southern Japan that presented no apparent serious indoor problems. A validated questionna...

This paper investigates modeling indoor environments using a low-cost, compact, active-range camera, known as BIRIS, mounted onto a pan and tilt motor unit. The BIRIS sensor, developed at the National Research Council of Canada, is a rugged small camera with no moving parts. The objectives of this paper are to describe and demonstrate the viability of the use of a low-cost range sensor in the d...