Developing an expedited approach for ensuring interior visual comfort by optimizing daylight use for an office building
This DRP shall develop a methodology/logic that accelerates and simplifies the process of ensuring visual comfort inside a building. Rational use of daylight is beneficial to the energy efficiency of a building as well as the occupant’s health. One of the solutions to cater to the multiple challenges pertaining to daylight is optimizing the shading device with the help of an exhaustive logic. Visual comfort probability (VCP) is analogous to discomfort glare probability (DGP) and acts as a proxy for the existing calculation methods for ensuring comfort. There are several calculation and software-based methods available, however, they are time consuming and complex. This drawback decreases the likelihood of their usage and is inefficient for annual analysis. Another limitation in the current methods is the incomprehension of the thermal and visual aspects of daylight together. This DRP aims at not only developing a combined and expedited logic for ensuring visual comfort but also apply it to create a shading system.
