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apps:biomet [2018/02/12 11:09] – [Upgrade to BioMet Professional] enviadminapps:biomet [2019/01/12 21:21] enviadmin
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 ENVI-met Biomet is a post-processing tool to calculate human thermal comfort indices based on your simulation data.  ENVI-met Biomet is a post-processing tool to calculate human thermal comfort indices based on your simulation data. 
 It directly interacts with the ENVI-met output and lets you interactivly set the persons parameter, the Thermal Comfort Index and the range of calculation. It directly interacts with the ENVI-met output and lets you interactivly set the persons parameter, the Thermal Comfort Index and the range of calculation.
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 ===== Thermal Comfort Indices provided by BioMet 1.5 ===== ===== Thermal Comfort Indices provided by BioMet 1.5 =====
 In the recent version 1.5, Biomet supports **PMV/PPD** (Predicted mean vote), **PET* **(Physiologal Equivalent Temperature), **UTCI* ** (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and **SET* ** (Standard Effective Temperature), but more are likely to be integrated. (*: only available with the [[apps:biomet_license|Professional license of Biomet]]). In the recent version 1.5, Biomet supports **PMV/PPD** (Predicted mean vote), **PET* **(Physiologal Equivalent Temperature), **UTCI* ** (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and **SET* ** (Standard Effective Temperature), but more are likely to be integrated. (*: only available with the [[apps:biomet_license|Professional license of Biomet]]).
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   * [[apps:biomet_utci|Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)]]   * [[apps:biomet_utci|Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)]]
   * [[apps:biomet_set|Standard Effective Temperature (SET)]]   * [[apps:biomet_set|Standard Effective Temperature (SET)]]
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 +===== Which Comfort Index shall I use? =====
 +This is the big and holy question. The fact, that BioMet already supports 4 of them gives a clue, that there is no generally accepted answer. 
 +We suggest reading the paper by Fischereit and Schlünzen (2018) [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-018-1591-6|(Paper in International Journal of Biometeorology, Open Access)]] for a detailed discussion on this matter. 
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 +**The suggest to use PET as a thermal comfort indicator.**