Modeling the comfort, energy and power demand performance of smart thermostats

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Stelpro is a leading manufacturer of electric heating solutions in North America. Their products include**baseboard heaters, convectors, radiant heaters, furnaces and in-duct heaters, as well as floor heating solutions.**They are also manufacturing thermostats and they have recently joined forces with "Internet of Things" partners**to develop a new generation of connected thermostats. With the objective of guiding their R&D effort and to**perform cost-benefit analyses for their potential customers, this project will adopt better models and improved**assumptions to simulate the energy performance and the peak power demand of typical homes equipped with**this new generation of smart thermostats. These new approaches are based on findings that the research team**identified together in the original Engage project, for instance, better occupancy profiles and thermal zoning**scenarios will be introduced in this continuous project. A more thorough assessment of thermal comfort will be**conducted using ASHRAE Standard 55. Different buildings representing the housing stock in Québec and**Canada will be modeled.