Thermal Comfort Analyzer software
Author: Jan Pokorny
Brno University of Technology
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Energy Institute - Department of Thermodynamics and Environmental Engineering
Technická 2896/2
616 69 Brno, Czech Rep.    
E-mail: pokorny.j@fme.vutbr.cz
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Aim
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Thermal Comfort Analyzer software allows to automatically process large .csv files of data measured by the thermal manikin to evaluate a thermal comfort. Data (heat fluxes) are processed as moving averages with a user defined sampling span. Values of heat fluxes are used for the calculation of the local equivalent temperatures, which are used to evaluate thermal comfort by ISO 14505-2 standard.  The software generates diagram of comfort zones and provides processed data of local equivalent temperatures and it also visualize them. The software allows to replay processed data, save it into .png files after that it is possible to create a movie sequence from the created .png files. Actual version of this software can be used for example for the thermal manikin Newton manufactured by Measurement Technology NW.  
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Remark
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Developed in Matlab 2012b, user need install MCR library 2012b 32bit or 64bit.
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Files
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TCA32bit.bat or TCA64bit.bat...Run application
setup.csv...file with definition of user options
plotSetup.csv...selecting variables in plot (plot results button)
Annotations.csv...definition of the frame and the "subtitles" to comment results in animation (gif or avi)
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Folders
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Data...processing data stored in the mat file (do not delete this folder and files inside!!!)
Documentation...short manual to the Thermal Comfort Analyzer software
Newton...measured data by thermal manikin Newton 34 zones
Results...Processed data - excel file and images of Comfort zones diagram
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BUGS and HINTS
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1.Calibration and the Measurement folder has to contain data, i.e. csv files see as example hcal_Summer_light.csv and 00_Octavia_test_netme_12-7-2013.csv. 

-->REAL TIME
2.During the real time mode do not use postprocessing slide bar and hh:mm:ss 
button. It will cause stop the processing (hint: reopen the application if the problem occurs).
3.The real time mode can be interrupt by unclicking REAL TIME togglebutton and it can be the mode can be again activated by the next click.
4.During the real time mode, there can be problem with the conflict when ThermDac writing data into the csv file and TCA needs to read dat from csv file. It should not cause any problem. The default frequency of reading data by TCA is 2 seconds (in this version TCA 1.4.2 this calue cannot be changed by user) 
5.Do not use real time and calibration mode together - it is nonsense

-->CALIBRATION
6.Calibration mode automatically set up the processing to the last resample span (default 30 min), i.e the centre of interval is 15 min to end of the calibration test (it is assumed that all calibration process at the end are time stabilized. The result of the calibration process is the new Diagram and hcal values.
7.Calibration\No-clothing folder. You can edit the files and the hcal0 values defined as 1/RCT0 to set up the reference no_clothing file for the specific test, but DO NOT DELETE the folder and the files inside!!!  It will cause error when the thermal resistance RCL is calculated from the RCT0 value. 

-->EXPORT FIGURE
8.It is possible to export figure of the graph and figurine (it depends only on the which GUI window is active at the moment)
