Advances on Smart Cities and Smart Buildings
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2021) | Viewed by 40485
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart grids; smart buildings; smart mobility; optimization and control methods
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Interests: smart buildings; smart grids; intelligent transportation systems; Petri nets; optimization; autonomous vehicles
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Dear Colleagues,
Modern cities are facing the challenge of combining competitiveness on a global city scale and sustainable urban development to become smart cities. A smart city is a high-tech intensive and advanced city that connects people, information, and city elements using new technologies in order to create a sustainable, greener city, competitive and innovative commerce, and an increased quality of life. In recent years, in the smart city context, smart and green building management has become one of the main challenges for automation and building construction. In addition to the utilization of renewable energy resources, the necessity to ensure both high-level comfort and energy efficiency can be satisfied by adopting new suitable and intelligent building energy management systems (BEMSs) to be integrated in building automation control systems. In this context, the main challenge is to minimize energy consumption, guaranteeing a high level of indoor comfort conditions in buildings, which generally depends on three factors: thermal comfort, visual comfort, and air quality comfort. To this purpose, novel models, algorithms, and tools can be proposed to maximize the indoor life quality with the minimum energy consumption both via active “energy consuming” systems (e.g., HVAC) and passive strategies (e.g., natural ventilation).
Dr. Michele Roccotelli
Prof. Dr. Agostino Marcello Mangini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart buildings
- building energy management system
- near-zero energy buildings (NZEB)
- smart grids
- intelligent power and energy systems
- smart urban environments
- intelligent transportation systems
- green mobility
- autonomous vehicles and smart cities
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