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The issues of energy efficiency and energy balance in industrial enterprises are considered. Particular attention is paid to automatic control systems for heat supply in order to achieve energy savings. The experience of development, operation and maintenance phase of monitoring, analysis and control systems at heat supply facilities of enterprises in Vladivostok is given.
This paper proposes a new novel way for NonIntrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). The technique can be applied to develop a powerful framework for low-cost power monitoring in buildings, particularly in the small commercial sector. This approach thus solves one of the major challenges in power monitoring and energy management, which has been the development of robust unsupervised learning algorithms that...
The energetic behaviour of ten nZEB built in Piemonte (region located in NW Italy) is analysed from experimental data. The energy consumptions are normalized for the weather conditions and size of the building, then the consumptions are compared with the design data. The data analysis shows that nZEB can be built in northern part of Italy and even if the real consumptions are slightly higher than...
This paper presents an overview of the Integration and Intelligence for Sustainability concept or better called I2S. The system will be installed in the Campos dos Goytacazes Innovation Hub (PICG) campus of the Instituto Federal Fluminense, and the project aims to integrate the data generated from different subsystems, mainly the renewable energy generation system, energy consumption, water treatment...
Smart metering is one of the main objectives for the EU member states to ensure the benefit of consumers on the long term. Due to its functionality, smart meters have a wide applicability in: power quality monitoring, energy savings, data awareness and fraud detection. With long-term cost benefits of the smart meters, it is expected that 72% of European consumers will have a smart meter for electricity...
Recent research on Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies which provide the capability of serving massive low power devices simultaneously has been very attractive. The LoRaWAN standard is one of the most successful developments. Commercial pilots are seen in many countries around the world. However, the feasibility of large scale deployments, for example, for smart city applications need...
Buildings represent 40% of total primary energy use in the U.S., and researchers have recognized the necessity of making office spaces more energy efficient. To reduce energy consumption, it is important to take into account buildings occupants' behavior into account. The difference between simulated, estimated and real power consumption in buildings reflects the need to search for more accurate ways...
This article is devoted to technology of change detection on satellite imagery. The aim was the development new accurate method to detect ruined buildings after disaster by using satellite images before and after event. The proposed two approaches has been tested on satellite images. advantage of using the proposed technology. The results can be used for further object detection and recognition for...
A remote monitoring system of piggery environment based on LoRa was designed in view of the shortcomings of the short distance, the complex network and the weak anti-interference ability of the wireless monitoring network in piggery environment. According to the requirements of data transmission distance and low power consumption, a wireless network based on LoRa technology was proposed; The SX1278...
Green building plays an important role in the development of the construction industry. The key issue of green building is how to operate itself. This paper presents a building management cloud platform for green buildings. Its goal is to realize building operation management by using the technologies of cloud computing and Internet of things. The cloud servers provide data storage, computing and...
The European Union (EU) Member States and the European Commission (EC) are investing substantial funds in research and development (R&D) on technologies and innovative solutions for European and international disaster management, risk reduction as well as general crisis preparedness and response. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has intensively been working in these R&D programs for many...
A virtual environment was designed and implemented in order to examine emotional responses while playing in a virtual reality. A game based design approach was used to create a convincing narrative and meaningful tasks that are simultaneously used to access the users' emotional state. Self-reported ratings on emotions and game experience were incorporated into a background story and conducted while...
The article describes the security systems at all stages of the construction of buildings and structures, the analysis at the sites during operation risk monitoring measures, taking into account possible emergencies.
In remote rural areas, the availability of trained and qualified teachers is poor. Rural teaching is teacher-centric instead of student-centric. A systematic monitoring system to ensure that teachers practice the methods they learn at pre- or in-service trainings is not yet in place. Plagued by such deficiencies, present day rural education in India lacks quality, and children read, write, and compute...
The paper proposes a sensorization plan for monitoring a relevant architectural case study at the University of Cagliari, in order to verify indoor thermo-hygrometric conditions and define a set of interventions which should be compatible with building preservation issue and oriented at improving its energy performance. The research aims at understanding how to organize and structure the compliance...
The large-scale management and monitoring of ancient buildings, in particular of churches, is a complex issue for the heritage buildings holders. The scientific and technical communities study new methods to improve these operations through Information and Communication Technology tools. This paper proposes the first steps of an innovative methodological approach to develop an information system that...
Having knowledge of the environmental context of the user i.e. the knowledge of the users' indoor location and the semantics of their environment, can facilitate the development of many of location-aware applications. In this paper, we propose an acoustic monitoring technique that infers semantic knowledge about an indoor space over time, using audio recordings from it. Our technique uses the impulse...
Monitoring the displacements of structures caused by slight or big seismic shakings and landslides the irrespective of observation points by simply taking the data using a single equipment is useful. GNSS antennas and receivers on the roof of a steel tower to monitor the displacement of the structure caused by the wind etc. has already been reported, but ours is the first study on a low-cost GNSS...
The emergence of many heterogeneous sensor systems on the Web has produced huge amounts of sensor data. This requires building the customized and automated processing methods, which can be formed by connecting the services on the Web. Based on the semantic Web services markup language named OWL-S, the algorithms for processing sensor data on the Web are represented as the service ontologies and become...
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