Optimized thermal zone controller for integration within a building energy management system.

Today’s important buildings are often equipped with a Building Energy Management System (BEMS) that aims to control and optimise all the energy fluxes involving the HVAC system, but also the lighting and other appliances. The BEMS is also intended to maintain an acceptable level of comfort in the building by a proper control strategy. The notion of comfort not only means the thermal comfort but is also related to the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and to other discomfort sources : noise, insufficient or glaring light, ...