Spatio-Temporal Jump Model for Urban Thermal Comfort Monitoring

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Main Authors: Cortese, Federico P., Pievatolo, Antonio
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author Cortese, Federico P.
Pievatolo, Antonio
author_facet Cortese, Federico P.
Pievatolo, Antonio
contents Thermal comfort is essential for well-being in urban spaces, especially as cities face increasing heat from urbanization and climate change. Existing thermal comfort models usually overlook temporal dynamics alongside spatial dependencies. We address this problem by introducing a spatio-temporal jump model that clusters data with persistence across both spatial and temporal dimensions. This framework enhances interpretability, minimizes abrupt state changes, and easily handles missing data. We validate our approach through extensive simulations, demonstrating its accuracy in recovering the true underlying partition. When applied to hourly environmental data gathered from a set of weather stations located across the city of Singapore, our proposal identifies meaningful thermal comfort regimes, demonstrating its effectiveness in dynamic urban settings and suitability for real-world monitoring. The comparison of these regimes with feedback on thermal preference indicates the potential of an unsupervised approach to avoid extensive surveys.
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spellingShingle Spatio-Temporal Jump Model for Urban Thermal Comfort Monitoring
Cortese, Federico P.
Pievatolo, Antonio
Applications
Machine Learning
Methodology
62M30, 62H30, 37M10
Thermal comfort is essential for well-being in urban spaces, especially as cities face increasing heat from urbanization and climate change. Existing thermal comfort models usually overlook temporal dynamics alongside spatial dependencies. We address this problem by introducing a spatio-temporal jump model that clusters data with persistence across both spatial and temporal dimensions. This framework enhances interpretability, minimizes abrupt state changes, and easily handles missing data. We validate our approach through extensive simulations, demonstrating its accuracy in recovering the true underlying partition. When applied to hourly environmental data gathered from a set of weather stations located across the city of Singapore, our proposal identifies meaningful thermal comfort regimes, demonstrating its effectiveness in dynamic urban settings and suitability for real-world monitoring. The comparison of these regimes with feedback on thermal preference indicates the potential of an unsupervised approach to avoid extensive surveys.
title Spatio-Temporal Jump Model for Urban Thermal Comfort Monitoring
topic Applications
Machine Learning
Methodology
62M30, 62H30, 37M10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09726