Most people reach for the thermostat when the room feels hot or cold, but in fact air temperature makes up only about half of a person’s thermal comfort level the other half depends on temperatures of surrounding surfaces — cold or hot windows, walls and floors. Assistant professor Forrest Meggers and his team have designed a simple, cost-effective device that measures surfaces temperature in multiple locations of a room and feeds this information to a central management system in real time to s

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