Print Email Facebook Twitter Design of a standalone presence aware infrared heating product for office Title Design of a standalone presence aware infrared heating product for office Author Shen, Yin (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering) Contributor Keyson, D.V. (mentor) van der Vegte, W.F. (mentor) Verbraak, M. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Integrated Product Design Date 2020-11-25 Abstract Energy saving is becoming a topic that has been widely discussed. By 2050 all office buildings according to EU plans should be energy neutral. This implies a large potential for more efficient solutions, such as occupancy-aware local heating. Based on this idea, OfficeVitae developed a vertical heating panel for use in offices using carbon infrared heating film. This thesis collaboration between Office Vitae explored the possibilities of implementing person detection technology into the local heating system. Implementation of the smartness and the control unit interaction are main problems. To develop the standalone concept, extensive user tests were conducted to collect sufficient data for further development. There are 4 design lean cycles conducted in total after chose the design direction. The final heating strategy, overall ergonomics preference, and the interaction method were defined and elaborated. The project is finished with a standalone conceptual product that could sense occupancy presence with one PIR motion sensor and provide heating accordingly to avoid unnecessary heating in winter. The product is controlled by a reachable, simple, and direct control unit that allows workers to personalise temperature around the working area to have higher control of the workplace while saving energy by lowering the ambient temperature. Although a working prototype is not built in this project, extensive evaluations and tests with low fidelity prototypes validated the feasibility of the final design. To conclude the research, a list of generic findings, limitations of this project, and recommendations for further development are provided. Subject Human presence detectionLocal infrared heatingEnergy saving for officeInteraction designProduct design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5f7f3b26-22bd-489d-a716-53f85a09d3aa Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2020 Yin Shen Files PDF IDE_grad_portrait_Yin_Shen.pdf 414.81 KB PDF Master_graduation_report_ ... 8605_1.pdf 15.16 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5f7f3b26-22bd-489d-a716-53f85a09d3aa/datastream/OBJ1/view