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Building Occupancy and Smart Metering
Buildings have been recognized as one of the major carbon emission sources to maintain the basic requirement of building occupants, and occupant has... -
Internet of Things-Based Smart Building for Energy Efficiency
Over the next few years, it is expected that the energy demand, particularly that of buildings, will increase due to several factors. There is a... -
Retrofitting of an Existing Building to Be a Sustainable, Vibrant, and Smart Building
Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even faster than we feared. The goal of this study is to convert an existing... -
Smart Village – Methodology and Capacity Building
This chapter describes the methodology to be adopted to develop a smart village, and the capacity building and scalability considerations in the... -
An Introduction to Smart Building Energy Management
In today’s fast growing life, buildings must have an effective energy management system to make compact and convenient atmosphere with low investment... -
Embodied competencies and smart home technology in energy use: three ways users integrate smart heating systems in everyday practices
Smart heating systems are increasingly entering the domestic sphere. Such smart home technology (SHT) intends to provide comfort, control, and...
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How well do building energy performance certificates predict heat loss?
This paper evaluates the predictive power of building energy performance certificates on home heat loss. Improving the insulative capacity of...
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Smart Architecture – A Sustainable Approach for Transparent Building Components Design
This book explores the specific role that glazing technologies play within the world of smart architecture as important components of contemporary...
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Forecasting smart home electricity consumption using VMD-Bi-GRU
Due to its important role in smart grids, power system management, and smart buildings, energy consumption forecasting has gained a lot of interest...
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Towards Advanced Technologies for Smart Building Management: Linking Building Components and Energy Use
With over 4.4 billion people living in urban areas, buildings are currently the greatest energy consumers on a worldwide scale, accounting for 40% of... -
Smart grid (SG) properties and challenges: an overview
The electric power system is undergoing considerable changes in operation, maintenance, and planning as a result of the integration of Renewable...
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Multi-Term Electrical Load Forecasting of Smart Cities Using a New Hybrid Highly Accurate Neural Network-Based Predictive Model
This paper presents FARHAN, a novel hybrid model designed to address the challenges of electrical load forecasting in smart grids. FARHAN combines...
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Experimental investigation of a novel smart energy management system for performance enhancement of conventional solar photovoltaic microgrids
Solar photovoltaic microgrids are reliable and efficient systems without the need for energy storage. However, during power outages, the generated...
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Mobile Hybrid Energy System for Modern Drives of Smart Energy Transition
Mainly driven by the climate change, electric power systems are globally going through a transition. In order to cut carbon dioxide emissions and...
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Comprehensive review of modeling, structure, and integration techniques of smart buildings in the cyber-physical-social system
Smart buildings have been proven to be a kind of flexible demand response resources in the power system. To maximize the utilization of the demand...
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Smart Building and Current Technologies
This chapter serves as an initial connector for the smart technologies and primary causes of health issues in the built environment that were... -
Advancing the smart city objectives of electric demand management and new services to residents by home automation—learnings from a case
Smart city projects explore solutions to improve the sustainability of urban infrastructure. In Kalasatama, a new smart city district being built in...
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Smart Grids and Smart Buildings
The evolutionary transition to smart grids and smart buildings holds a great promise for a cleaner, more efficient power; healthier air; and lower... -
Feasibility analysis of the application of building automation and control system and their interaction with occupant behavior
Occupant behavior is among the main causes for the mismatch between simulated and in-use energy performance of buildings. One of the strategies...