2025 February - 37 articles
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a potential alternative that aggregates the distributed energy resources (DERs) and addresses the prosumer’s power availability, quality, and reliability requirements. This paper reports the optimized scheduling o...
Smart cities aim to enhance the quality of life by advancing infrastructure, leveraging technology, and promoting sustainability, balancing environmental, societal, and economic needs for long-term efficiency. Given resource scarcity and environmenta...
The increasing adoption of smart home devices has raised significant concerns regarding privacy, security, and vulnerability to cyber threats. This study addresses these challenges by presenting a federated learning framework enhanced with blockchain...
Smart cities are Hyper-Connected Digital Environments (HCDEs) that transcend the boundaries of natural, human-made, social, virtual, and artificial environments. Human activities are no longer confined to a single environment as our presence and inte...
Increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and the expansion of EV charging infrastructure present opportunities for enhancing sustainable transportation within smart cities. However, the interconnected nature of EV charging stations (EVCSs) expo...
Urban digital twins (UDTs) were first discussed in 2018. Seven years later, we ask: What has been their contribution to urban planning and decision making so far? Here, we systematically review 88 peer-reviewed articles to map and compare UDTs’...
Developing policy instruments related to urban freight, such as congestion pricing, urban consolidation schemes, and off-hours delivery, requires an understanding of the distribution of shipment delivery times. Furthermore, agent-based urban freight...
The increasing demand for energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energy sources have become crucial for sustainability in modern campuses. This work presents a smart green energy management system (SGEMS) that integrates a machine learnin...
The advent of digital transformation has redefined the preservation of cultural heritage and historic sites through the integration of Digital Twin technology. Initially developed for industrial applications, Digital Twins are now increasingly employ...
The concept of digital twins (DTs) has expanded to encompass buildings and cities, with urban building energy modeling (UBEM) playing a crucial role in predicting urban-scale energy consumption via modeling individual energy use and interactions. As...
In an era of increasingly abundant and granular spatial and temporal data, the traditional divide between environmental GIS and building-centric BIM scales is diminishing, offering an opportunity to enhance natural hazard assessment by bridging the g...
In the biodiversity and climate emergency, a holistic approach is needed for the development of smart cities. This perspective paper proposed a novel conceptual framework for nature-positive smart cities in a socio-technical-ecological system (STES),...
The ongoing increase in urban populations has resulted in the enduring issue of traffic congestion, adversely affecting the quality of life, including commute duration, road safety, and local air quality. Consequently, recognizing and forecasting und...
Due to its anticipated impacts on the performance of transportation systems, intelligent transport systems (ITS) have emerged as one of the most extensively investigated topics. The U.S. Department of Transportation has defined route guidance systems...
The rapid evolution of smart city technologies has expanded digital twin (DT) applications from industrial to urban contexts. However, current urban digital twins (UDTs) remain predominantly focused on the physical aspects of urban environments (&ldq...
Smart city planning is crucial for enhancing urban resilience, especially with the contemporary challenges of rising urban population and climate change. This study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) to examine the integration of urban res...
In Dubai’s rapidly expanding urban landscape, addressing the adverse impacts of increasing automobile reliance is critical. Growing vehicle usage contributes to urban sprawl, prolonged commutes, infrastructure strain, and diminished green space...
This article investigates the impacts of coordinated false data injection attacks (FDIAs) on voltage profiles in smart microgrids integrated with renewable-based distributed energy resources (DERs), a critical component of urban energy infrastructure...
This study investigates the implementation of LLM agents in smart city management, leveraging both the inherent language processing abilities of LLMs and the distributed problem solving capabilities of multi-agent systems for the improvement of urban...
Spontaneous recreational activities in public spaces are a vital source of public vitality. Given the similarity between the walking patterns of recreational crowds in public spaces and the movement of electrons on a two-dimensional circuit surface,...
Building decarbonization is a major challenge for cities. Deciding which buildings to retrofit buildings, and when and how, is difficult, given the complex interaction between energy costs and investment requirements. Several tools have been develope...
The rapid urbanization and pursuit of sustainability have elevated shared mobility as a cornerstone of smart cities. Among its modalities, scooter-sharing has gained popularity for its convenience and eco-friendliness, yet it faces significant adopti...
This paper proposes a new strategy for a collision avoidance system leveraging time-to-collision (TTC) metrics for handling cut-in scenarios, which are particularly challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs). By integrating deep learning with TTC calc...
For large cities with developing infrastructures, optimising water supply systems plays a crucial role. However, without a clear understanding of the network structure and water consumption patterns, addressing these challenges becomes significantly...
Intrusion detection systems are essential for detecting network cyberattacks. As the sophistication of cyberattacks increases, it is critical that defense technologies adapt to counter them. Multi-step attacks, which need several correlated intrusion...
Natural disasters create complex environments where effective human detection is both critical and challenging, especially when individuals are partially occluded. While recent advancements in computer vision have improved detection capabilities, the...
Nanogrids are becoming an essential part of modern home power systems, offering sustainable solutions for residential areas. These medium-to-low voltage, small-scale grids, operating at medium-to-low voltage, enable the integration of distributed ene...
This study aims to identify the added value of smart city technologies in real estate development, one of the most significant factors that would transform traditional real estate into smart ones. In total, 16 technologies utilized at both levels hav...
As cities evolve into smarter and more connected environments, there is a growing need for innovative solutions to improve urban mobility. This study examines the potential of integrating blockchain technology into passenger transportation systems wi...
The Clean Energy package recognizes and offers a favorable regulatory framework for citizens and energy communities with renewable energy sources. However, various countries’ national regulations will be highly important for the successful deve...
Climatic changes lead to many extreme weather events throughout the globe. These extreme weather events influence our behavior, exposing us to different environmental conditions, such as poor indoor quality. Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) poses a sign...
Ground settlement is a crucial indicator for assessing the safety of shield tunneling and its impact on the surrounding environment. However, most existing settlement prediction methods are based on historical data, which can only be applied with eff...
Natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes) significantly impact citizens, economies, and the environment worldwide. Due to their sudden onset, devastating effects, and high uncertainty, it is crucial for emergency departments to take swift action...
This paper utilizes a methodological two-step process incorporating statistical and causal probabilistic modeling techniques to investigate factors affecting the accessibility experiences of persons with disabilities in Canada. We deploy a network-ba...
Power consumption prediction is a crucial component in enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of building operations. This study investigates the impact of data collection frequency and model selection on the predictive accuracy of power consump...
Mobility digital twins (MDTs), which utilize multi-modal microscopic (micro) traffic simulations and an activity-based demand generation, are envisioned as flexible and reliable planning tools for addressing today’s increasingly complex and div...
City services and infrastructures are focused on consumers and are able to effectively and qualitatively implement their functions only under conditions of normal workload. In this regard, the correct organization of a public service system is direct...
