The Role of New Technologies in Smart City, Infrastructure and Real Estate
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 4570
Special Issue Editors
Interests: application of artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, machine learning and deep learning in the built environment, such as cities, buildings and infrastructure
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Interests: digital twins; building information model; sustainable engineering; blockchain
Interests: digital twins; image processing; building information modelling; built asset management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Technology has enabled radical shifts in how businesses are managed, humans interact, and devices interconnect with each other. The digitalisation of reality has provided new commercial opportunities and made obsolete legacy approaches. Real estate and infrastructure have not been excluded from this revolution. Current examples are hybrid workplaces, user experience mobile apps, IoT sensors, and predictive maintenance among many others.
This Special Issue is providing a unique opportunity to perpetuate your contribution to smart buildings, cities, infrastructure or real estate. This special edition calls for:
- Academics to practically apply theoretical models and algorithms to the smart infrastructure sector;
- Industry to numerically expand case studies or detail products or solutions.
The acceptance criteria will be based on either:
- The proposal of an innovative model or method that improves a present case with the associated evidentiary research work, e.g., IoT sensors for predictive maintenance.
- The comparison between existing solutions against other approaches via quantitative analysis, e.g., return on investment of a technological solution.
Relevant topics include:
- Smart electronic systems;
- ICT data transmission networks;
- IoT, cloud and data infrastructure;
- Artificial Intelligence, machine learning;
- Asset/property/facilities management technology;
- Environmental, social, and governance sustainability;
- Audio visual systems;
- Energy management;
- Business intelligence and dashboards;
- BIM, Digital Twin;
- Blockchain and Web 3.0 applications;
- Mobile app interfaces;
- Cybersecurity;
- Financial or cost assessments, return of investment;
- Project management;
- Lease, accounting, sales and brokerage transactions.
Dr. Will Serrano
Prof. Dr. Tim Broyd
Dr. Qiuchen Lu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- technology
- data
- IoT
- real estate
- smart city
- smart buildings
- asset management
- ESG
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