Enabling Green Building’s Comfort Using Information and Communication Technologies: A Systematic Review of the Literature Ana Isabel Martins 1 , Ana Carolina Oliveira Lima 1 , Paulo Bartolomeu 1 , Lucilene Ferreira Mouzinho 1 , Joaquim Ferreira 1 , and Nelson Pacheco Rocha 2(&) 1 Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal {anaisabelmartins,ana.carolina.lima,bartolomeu, lucileneferreira,jjcf}@ua.pt 2 Medical Sciences Department, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal npr@ua.pt Abstract. The current environmental concerns increase the importance of sustainability in the construction industry. In this respect, information and communication technologies were identified to support automation and control systems promoting occupant’s comfort while safeguarding energy ef ficiency. In this study, a systematic review was performed to identify relevant applications supported by information and communications technologies with impact in the comfort of the occupants of green buildings. Results indicate that the scientific literature presents valuable arguments regarding the importance of information technologies to increase the occupant’s comfort and to minimize energy con- sumption of the modern green buildings. Keywords: Systematic literature review Á Green buildings Á Occupant’s comfort Á Information and communication technologies 1 Introduction Buildings have a profound impact on quality of life, public health, or productivity, while consuming a significant amount of natural resources [1, 2]. To meet their vital needs, both residential and commercial buildings are connected to conventional elec- tricity, gas, and water grids, and are responsible for a significant percentage of the world energy consumption: in 2015, residential and commercial buildings represented nearly 50% of the world energy consumption [3]. Therefore, they are important con- tributors for the unfolding environmental crisis [4]. The current environmental concerns resulted in a rising global awareness of the importance of sustainability in the construction industry [1, 4–6]. This has stimulated significant alterations for the built environment, with reductions in the levels of energy © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Á. Rocha et al. (Eds.): WorldCIST 2020, AISC 1160, pp. 197–208, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_19