Reducing energy consumption within buildings has been an active area of research in the
past decade; more recently, there has been an increased influx of activity, motivated by a …

Some new application scenarios for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) such as urban
resilience, smart house/building, smart agriculture and animal farming, among others, can …

Commercial buildings are attractive targets for introducing innovative cyber-physical control
systems, because they are already highly instrumented distributed systems which consume …

Virtual assistants powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and integrated into the smart home
ecosystems facilitate human–building interactions. We have envisioned that the proactive …

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have quickly become one of the hottest computer
applications today. With their tight integration of cyber and physical objects, it is believed …

Buildings account for over 75% of the electricity consumption in the United States. To reduce
electricity usage and peak demand, many utilities are introducing market-based time-of-use …

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data, high fidelity localization and
tracking systems that employ cameras, RFIDs, and attached sensors intrude on personal …

Buildings consume a significant amount of electricity, which is normally generated from dirty
sources causing an increase in carbon footprints. To reduce carbon footprint, distributed …

智能手机的感知手段日益丰富, 可感知信息的维度不断增加, 在健康, 医疗, 生活, 交通,
教育和娱乐等领域的应用层出不穷. 该文从智能手机感知的硬件基础, 智能手机可感知的信息和 …

There is enormous potential for building-focused applications to improve operation and
sustainability, both for classical uses like modeling or fault detection as well as innovative …