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DEMO: Web-CozyBench - A Web-Based Platform to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision Using Digital Twins

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Providing individual thermal comfort to occupants while minimizing energy use is a significant challenge in smart building management. Simulation-based benchmarks such as CozyBench have been developed to evaluate occupant-centric thermal comfort provision systems using Digital Twin (DT) models of buildings and occupants. In this paper, we present Web-CozyBench, a web-based platform that extends CozyBench by offering an intuitive, user-friendly interface for configuring experiments, running co-simulations, and visualizing results. Web-CozyBench lowers the barrier to entry for researchers and practitioners to benchmark thermal comfort provision systems by eliminating the need to directly handle complex simulation configurations. We outline the system design of Web-CozyBench and demonstrate its usage through a step-by-step scenario. The demonstration showcases how users can easily set up building and occupant digital twins, select a control strategy, run the simulation, and analyze performance metrics such as comfort and energy efficiency through the web interface.

Source: IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing

DOI: 10.1109/smartcomp65954.2025.00051

Authors: Jun Ma, Aziz Boubaker, Sabrine Azaiez, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis

Institutions: Institut Polytechnique de Paris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of Patras

Language: English

Topic: Building Energy and Comfort Optimization

Subfield: Building and Construction

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: China Scholarship Council, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

OpenAlex ID: W4411995973

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