COLLECTiEF dataset: A high-resolution indoor environmental dataset from European buildings across diverse climates supporting thermal, air-quality, and visual-comfort assessments

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Authors: Italo Aldo Campodonico-Avendano, Silvia Erba, Panayiotis Papadopoulos, Salvatore Carlucci, Antonio Luparelli, Amedeo Ingrosso, Greta Tresoldi, Muhammad Salman Shahid, Fréderic Würtz, Benoît Delinchant, Per Martin Leinan, Stefano Cera
+4 more Peter Riederer, Runar Solli, Amin Moazami, Mohammadreza Aghaei
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Abstract

Indoor Environmental Quality directly affects public health, productivity, and well-being, while also playing a vital role in developing climate-neutral, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings. This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of indoor environmental parameters that affect thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and visual comfort, which was created under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Project Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility . The dataset comprises high-resolution measurements of carbon dioxide, pollutants, volatile organic compounds, air temperature, relative humidity, and illuminance on a horizontal plane, collected over a two-year period at 1-minute intervals. Data were gathered from 14 pilot buildings across four European climates: Cyprus, France, Italy, and Norway, covering diverse building types such as schools, medical centres, sports arenas, residential complexes, universities, and elder care facilities, representing about 40% of common European building categories. Sensors were installed in specific thermal zones within each building to monitor environmental conditions. All data is organized by building and zone and supplemented with standardized Brick metadata to ensure interoperability. This comprehensive dataset, with its broad geographic coverage, variety of building types, long-term high-frequency measurements, and multimodal data, provides a valuable resource for comparative IEQ research, cross-domain modelling, and integrated assessments of comfort, ventilation, and daylighting across different climates and operational settings and is available upon request under a non-disclosure agreement provided by the consortium.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Publication details

Journal / source
Data in Brief
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
65
Pages
112486–112486
Publication date
21 January 2026
Language
EN