CPS: Breakthrough: Toward Personal Microclimate: Sustainable Heating Through Smart Clothing

中央供暖的模式一直与服装相配合，服装在很大程度上通过隔热来保存人体热量。该项目将平衡倾向于身体上的解决方案，使用主动身体加热与隔热和被动热保护相结合来加热个人身体，而不是整个环境。激励性的假设是，如果热量能有效地传递到S的身体上，那么加热大空间(通常是空的)的需要将显著减少。然而，如果身体供暖技术要得到广泛接受，它们必须在日常环境中舒适和可穿戴，同时还必须保持身体像目前中央供暖一样舒适。这是一个挑战，因为身体对热舒适的感知强烈地受到面部和手的温度的影响，而在日常情况下，可穿戴技术可能会阻碍或社交尴尬。该项目将开发舒适、社交微妙的可穿戴技术，既可以保存人体热量，又可以向这些关键的身体部位提供额外的热量，并评估它们保持热舒适性和降低加热空间舒适环境温度的能力。如果成功，这种技术不仅有可能提供大规模的节能，而且还允许个性化的热舒适性，每个乘员都可以选择自己的最佳温度。由于这一问题的跨学科性质，该项目将有助于对来自几个贡献学科的学生的教育，并将向本科生和研究生课程的学生介绍项目和研究机会。这里提出的研究重点是开发和评估舒适的、适合社会的向这些敏感地区输送供暖的方法。其次，在现场试验中评估了这些技术对可接受的环境温度的影响(以及由此产生的能源节约)。最后，在通过体温调节的劝说界面的早期探索中扩展了概念的边界。该提议的智力价值在于，它有助于开发有效的传感器/致动器技术，结合物联网和周围设备来调节个人微气候，并确定微气候对人类舒适度的相对影响的界限(对能源消耗有相应的影响)。这项拟议研究的更广泛影响最直接地包括有可能大幅节省在寒冷气候下供暖的能源成本。纳入这项研究的教育计划将有助于工程学的跨学科和多样性。

The central-heating paradigm has always functioned in tandem with clothing, which for the most part conserves body heat through insulation. This project tips the balance toward on-body solutions, using active on-body heating in conjunction with insulation and passive thermal protection to heat the individual human body rather than the entire environment. The motivating hypothesis is that if heat can be delivered effectively to the individual?s body, then the need to heat large (and often empty) spaces will be significantly reduced. However, if on-body heating technologies are ever to become widely accepted, they must be comfortable and wearable in everyday environments, while also keeping the body as comfortable as central heating currently does. This is a challenge because the body?s perception of thermal comfort is strongly influenced by the temperature of the face and hands, areas where wearable technologies can be obstructive or socially awkward to wear in everyday situations. This project will develop comfortable, socially subtle wearable technologies that both preserve body heat and deliver additional heat to these key body areas, and evaluate their ability to maintain thermal comfort and reduce the comfortable ambient temperature in heated spaces. If successful, such technologies have the potential to offer both large-scale energy savings, but also allow for individualized thermal comfort, with each occupant selecting their optimal temperature. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the problem, this project will contribute to the education of students from several contributing disciplines, and will introduce project and research opportunities to students in undergraduate and graduate coursework. The research proposed here focuses on the development and thermal chamber evaluation of comfortable, socially appropriate methods of delivering heating to these sensitive areas. Second, the effect of these technologies on acceptable ambient temperatures (and the resulting energy savings) are evaluated in a field trial. Finally, the boundaries of the concept are extended in early-stage exploration of persuasive interfaces through on-body temperature modulation. The intellectual merit of the proposal lies in its contributions to developing effective sensor/actuator technologies for modulating individual micro-climate in conjunction with IoT and ambient devices, and establishing the boundaries of the relative influence of micro-climate on human comfort (with corresponding effects on energy consumption). The broader impacts of the proposed research most directly include the potential for a large savings in the energy costs spent on heating in cold climates. The education plan integrated into this research will contribute to interdisciplinarity and diversity in engineering.