The indoor environmental quality (IEQ) monitoring inside buildings where people spend most of their time is essential for ensuring their well-being. Traditional approaches based on Building Automation and Control Systems consider buildings equipped with many different sensors. Unfortunately, the sensors are not always placed for taking the measurements at the right positions. Besides, users could feel a negative perception due to continuous supervision. The present work proposes an approach based on a social humanoid robot that monitors indoor environmental quality. It friendly interacts with occupants providing appropriate suggestions. Particularly, the social robot has been endowed with cognitive capabilities that ground on (i) a proper ontology that formalizes the IEQ domain, (ii) on formal definitions of normative standards based on deontic logic, and (iii) on algorithms for reasoning about the compliance of the environment with the normative standards. The proposed approach has been experimentally verified in some offices of the National Research Council of Italy located in Palermo, and it has involved ten participants. It is worth noting that at the end of the measurement campaign appears that in some cases, compliance with the standard does not imply the user’s well-being and vice versa.

人们在大部分时间都呆在建筑物内的室内环境质量（IEQ）监控对于确保他们的健康至关重要。基于楼宇自动化和控制系统的传统方法会考虑为楼宇配备许多不同的传感器。不幸的是，传感器并不总是放置在正确的位置进行测量。此外，由于不断的监督，用户可能会感到负面的看法。本工作提出了一种基于社会人形机器人的方法，该机器人可监测室内环境质量。它友好地与乘员互动，并提供适当的建议。特别是，社交机器人具有基于（i）正式化IEQ域的适当本体的认知能力，（ii）关于基于规范逻辑的规范标准的正式定义，以及（iii）关于推理环境是否符合规范标准的算法。该提议的方法已经在位于巴勒莫的意大利国家研究委员会的一些办公室进行了实验验证，并且有十名参与者参加。值得注意的是，在评估活动结束时，在某些情况下，符合标准并不意味着用户的幸福，反之亦然。