Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings

ZD Tekler, R Low, C Yuen, L Blessing - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Plug load management systems are touted as promising solutions to reduce the rising
energy consumption of plug loads in commercial buildings through different load monitoring …

Occupancy prediction using deep learning approaches across multiple space types: A minimum sensing strategy

ZD Tekler, A Chong - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The proliferation of sensing technologies has allowed the collection of occupancy-related
data to support various building applications, including adaptive HVAC and lighting controls …

Integrating resilience and sustainability: A systematic analysis of resilient cities using ISO 37123

DMDG Chiroli, MG Menezes, FC Zola… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrating resilience into governance policies has facilitated disaster prevention and
recovery strategies, as urbanization and climate change have led to various environmental …

Bridging 'stakeholder value creation'and 'urban sustainability': the need for better integrating the environmental dimension

D Beck, M Ferasso - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Stakeholder-orientation is critical to fostering sustainable urban development through
synergic collaborations among urban stakeholders. However, although Stakeholder Value …

Achieving the sustainable development goals through stakeholder value creation: Building up smart sustainable cities and communities

D Beck, M Ferasso, J Storopoli… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable development is the process of reaching sustainability, and Stakeholder Value
Creation (SVC) can foster urban sustainability. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are …

Towards human-centric digital twins: leveraging computer vision and graph models to predict outdoor comfort

P Liu, T Zhao, J Luo, B Lei, M Frei, C Miller… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional sidewalk studies focused on quantitative analysis of sidewalk walkability at a
large scale which cannot capture the dynamic interactions between the environment and …

[HTML][HTML] Stakeholder participation in planning of a sustainable and competitive tourism destination: The Genoa integrated action plan

I Spadaro, F Pirlone, F Bruno, G Saba, B Poggio… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 confronted the international community with critical health, social,
and economic challenges. Travel and tourism were among the hardest affected sectors. In …

[HTML][HTML] Urban resource assessment, management, and planning tools for land, ecosystems, urban climate, water, and materials—a review

R Volk, M Rambhia, E Naber, F Schultmann - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Increasing awareness of global and local climate change and the limited resources of land,
surface, water, raw materials, urban green spaces, and biodiversity alter the exigencies of …

RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty-empirical insights and theoretical reflections from case studies in Amsterdam and Mumbai

S Krishnan, NY Aydin, T Comes - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of the main drivers of uncertainty in urban planning, but only a few
studies systematically address these uncertainties, especially in the long term. Urban …

[HTML][HTML] The concept of smart cities: a sustainability aspect for future urban development based on different cities

A Addas - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To meet the needs of residents, scientists have suggested the concept of smart cities for
urban transformation. Urban green spaces (UGSs) are designed to improve lifestyles …