A Comfort Evaluation Method for Indoor Environment

Abstract

Surveys reveal that modern people spend more than 90% of their life in an indoor environment. Therefore, the environments indoors have great influence on both the efficiency and body health on the occupants. Nevertheless, the impact of indoor environment on occupants can’t be measurement directly nowadays. An indoor comfort evaluation method is proposed in this paper based on the fuzzy AHP. Metrics such as thermal comfort and lighting comfort are considered. Our method is able to derive numeric values for indoor environment so that the occupants are capable of understanding the comfort index for their surrounding environment. Experiment results show that the system can effectively detect the parameters of the indoor environment thermal comfort, and make a quantitative display of the comfort via the fuzzy AHP algorithm. The system has some practicality in the construction of intelligent, air conditioning and other fields.