Growing electricity demand, the deployment of renewable energy sources and the
widespread use of smart home appliances provide new opportunities for home energy …

Energy Transition (ET) is crucial for sustainable development, impacting inclusive prosperity
and social justice. Knowledge development, innovative solutions, and awareness actions …

Seniors face many challenges as they age, such as dementia, cognitive and memory
disorders, vision and hearing impairment, among others. Although most of them would like …

Plug loads, which encompass household appliances, significantly affect power quality (PQ)
due to harmonics. Current solutions, such as building-level active filters and smart plugs …

The growing demand for electricity and the constant increase in electricity rates have
intensified the interest of residential and non-residential energy consumers to reduce their …

This paper defines a smart home use case to automatically adjust home temperature and/or
hot water. The main objective is to reduce the energy consumption of cooling, heating and …

Elderly population is growing, and it contributes significantly to the saturation of public
healthcare services due to multiple reasons. Nowadays, an increasing number of elderly …

The current energy crisis has revealed deep vulnerabilities in energy supplies. It also
emphasised the strong fossil fuel dependency of many countries. Some governments …