Distributed Intelligence in Existing Housing Stock: SmartThermMesh, SolarHomeHub, and EcoFlipFrame as an Integrated Framework for Adaptive Retrofit Engineering
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Shakirova Gulnara Amangeldievna
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Residential buildings constructed before 1980 represent over one third of global housing stock and account for a disproportionate share of total energy use relative to their population density. Yet retrofit practice remains fragmented across thermal, electrical, and structural disciplines. This paper reports empirical results from field deployments of three coordinated technical systems, a distributed zone-level HVAC control architecture (SmartThermMesh), a cluster-based residential micro-grid (SolarHomeHub), and a factory-assembled interior renovation system (EcoFlipFrame), whose design principles and preliminary field results have been described in prior work (Rakhimov, 2025a; Rakhimov, 2025b; Rakhimov, 2025c). A six-week controlled monitoring campaign demonstrated a 37.6% reduction in HDD-normalised heating energy (p < 0.001) relative to a single-thermostat baseline, with a concurrent 45% improvement in the predicted mean vote comfort index. Prefabricated module installation across five sites yielded a mean renovation timeline of 5.1 working days per 100 m2 (SD = 0.6), an 86.6% reduction against a regional conventional benchmark of 37.8 days, with zero occupant displacement at all sites.
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