Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-
Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application …

Purpose The future construction site will be pervasive, context aware and embedded with
intelligence. The purpose of this paper is to explore and define the concept of the digital skin …

Commercial buildings contribute to 19% of the primary energy consumption in the US, with
HVAC systems accounting for 39.6% of this usage. To reduce HVAC energy use, prior …

Ultra-low-power (ULP) devices are becoming pervasive, enabling many emerging sensing
applications. Energy-efficiency is paramount in these applications, as efficiency determines …

Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often
times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most …

Mobile sensor nodes can be used for a wide variety of applications such as social networks
and location tracking. An important requirement for all such applications is that the mobile …

One of the primary requirements in many cyber-physical systems (CPS) is that the sensor
data derived from the physical world should be disseminated in a timely and reliable manner …

The internet of things (IoT) will enable a range of applications providing enhanced
awareness and control of the physical environment. Current systems typically sense and …

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

There is increasing interest in deploying building-scale, general-purpose, and high-fidelity
sensing to drive emerging smart building applications. However, the real-world deployment …