Abstract: A device and corresponding method for detecting thermal comfort includes an infrared sensor to generate a thermographic image by detecting the temperature at a plurality of points to detect the surface temperature of at least one person; an image evaluation unit to receive the data of the infrared sensor to correlate the measured surface temperatures with a segmented physiological model of the person. The image evaluation unit determines a position in space and/or a gesture and/or anthropometric and/or morphological data of the at least one person, and a correlation unit receiving the data of the image evaluation unit to generate, on the basis of the position in space and/or the gesture and/or the anthropometric and/or morphological data of the at least one person, at least one variable representing thermal comfort.