A thermal control methodology based on a predictive model for indoor heating management

This paper presents a thermal control methodology based on an indoor temperature predictive model that regulates heating systems. Future indoor temperature is predicted from historical data of indoor temperature and other outside parameters. A control strategy is defined afterwards in order to retrieve the optimal parameters. The building simulation shows that the developped methodology provides satisfactory results by avoiding overheating and underheating periods and thus improving the thermal comfort and the energy consumption