{"product_id":"thermal-comfort-paradoxes-in-smart-buildings-and-ai-controlled-hvac-9798197423900","title":"Thermal Comfort Paradoxes in Smart Buildings and AI-Controlled HVAC","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Nehme\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Construction - Heating, Ventilation \u0026amp; Air Conditioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe modern building is no longer a passive shell responding to climate. It has become an active, sensing, learning, and continuously adjusting organism. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems-once designed around fixed assumptions and steady-state calculations-are now governed by algorithms that learn from occupancy patterns, predict thermal loads, and optimize energy consumption in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, despite this technological evolution, one persistent contradiction remains: occupants still feel too hot, too cold, or simply uncomfortable in buildings that are technically operating \"within design parameters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the central paradox explored in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs HVAC systems become more intelligent through AI, machine learning, and advanced Building Management Systems (BMS), the definition of comfort is increasingly treated as a data problem rather than a human experience. Temperature, humidity, CO₂ levels, and airflow are measured with precision. Optimization targets are achieved. Energy consumption is reduced. And still, complaints persist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause thermal comfort is not purely physical-it is psychological, contextual, and deeply individual. AI-driven HVAC systems optimize for averages, patterns, and efficiency curves, while humans experience comfort through variability, expectation, adaptation, and perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is written for engineers, designers, facility managers, and decision-makers who are facing this disconnect firsthand. It does not reject AI in HVAC systems; rather, it questions how it is being applied, and whether current optimization strategies are truly aligned with human-centric design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe goal is not to simplify the problem, but to expose its layers: technical, behavioral, and organizational. By understanding where intelligent systems succeed and where they fail in interpreting human comfort, we can move toward a more balanced and realistic approach to smart building design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, this book argues that the future of HVAC is not just smarter control-but better judgment. And judgment requires more than data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891573375127,"sku":"9798197423900","price":3358.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197423900.webp?v=1781184141","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thermal-comfort-paradoxes-in-smart-buildings-and-ai-controlled-hvac-9798197423900","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}