Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of small power-constrained nodes that sense
data and communicate it to the base station (BS). These nodes cover a vast region of …

Abstract Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) can play a potential role in
improving the energy performance of buildings by the implementation of effective solutions …

The systems based on intelligent sensors are currently expanding, due to theirs functions
and theirs performances of intelligence: transmitting and receiving data in real-time …

Several types of research have been made on short-range and low-level wireless networks
energy consumption since their appearances until today. To examine the specificities of …

Building automation is a trusted technology to ensure user comfort in buildings. Today the
challenge is not only to provide comfort, but to do it while having a close eye on the energy …

This paper analyzes two pricing schemes commonly used in WiFi markets: flat-rate pricing
and usage-based pricing. The flat-free pricing encourages users to achieve the maximum …

This paper reports a self-powered WSN system based on piezoelectric energy harvesting
and used for aircraft health monitoring. The system consists of three main subsystems …

Information Centric Networks (ICNs) have been considered one of the most promising
candidates to overcome the disadvantages of host-centric architectures when applied to IoT …

In the area of building automation, many sensor or actuator devices are tiny embedded
systems which are installed throughout the building. The sensors gather information about …

So far the worlds of building automation and power networks have co-existed electrically
attached but without data interaction, with different, and sometimes divergent, goals and …