An ontology to represent energy-related occupant behavior in buildings. Part I: Introduction to the DNAs framework

摘要: Abstract Reducing energy consumption in the buildings sector requires significant changes, but technology alone may fail to guarantee efficient performance. Human behavior plays a pivotal role building design, operation, management and retrofit, is crucial positive factor for improving indoor environment, while reducing use at low cost. Over past 40 years, substantial body of literature has explored impacts human on technologies operation. Often, need-action-event cognitive theoretical frameworks were used represent human-machine interactions. In Part I this paper, review more than 130 published behavioral studies was conducted. A large variety data-driven models have been developed based field monitoring human-building-system interaction. Studies emerged scattered geographically around world that lack standardization consistency, thus leading difficulties when comparing one with another. To address problem, an ontology energy-related occupant presented. Accordingly, technical DNAs framework four key components: i) Drivers behavior, ii) Needs occupants, iii) Actions carried out by iv) systems acted upon occupants. This envisioned support international research community standardize systematic representation buildings. II paper further develops as XML (eXtensible Markup Language) schema, obXML, exchange information modeling integration simulation tools.