Advancement in Smart Building Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The Smart City concept is based on the integration of infrastructures of a city, such as energy and water distribution grids or transportation systems, with information and communication technology (ICT) for the optimization of the services offered to citizens. The smart city approach benefits from information coming from a massive deployment of a network of sensors along the urban area. Private and public buildings represent the preferred point of interconnection between the citizen and the Smart City. Thus, the building construction and management sector has ben experiencing a deep transformation in recent years. Systems, such as home automation systems or energy management systems, are providing “intelligence” to buildings, the so-called smart building approach. Technologies such as the Internet of Thing (IoT) will provide possible solutions to make the interconnection of subsystems and plants of building with the rest of the Smart City easier. 

This issue welcomes theoretical papers, methodological studies, and empirical research (or a combination thereof) on the design and implementation of the smart building concept for sustainable energy management and improvement of quality of life of customers, concerning (but not limited to) the application of:

• Block chain applications to smart buildings;
• Artificial Intelligence and machine learning solutions for smart buildings;
• Internet of Things and cyberphysical systems;
• Distributed measurement systems;
• Communication protocols for smart buildings and IoT;
• Energy management system;
• Active user interaction;
• Ambient assisted living;
• Building information modeling;
• Building management system;
• Home automation system;
• Heat ventilation and air conditioning system;
• Predictive maintenance system;
• Power electronic for management of energy flows in buildings;
• Signal processing from sensors for smart buildings;
• Energy saving/energy analysis on building management systems.

Dr. Stefano Rinaldi
Dr. Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue
Guest Editors

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