Digitalization for Smart Building Environments
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editors
2. Urban Mobility Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Interests: smart buildings; smart cities; building occupancy detection/estimation; computer vision; generative models
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled "Digitalization for Smart Building Environments," will delve into the cutting-edge technologies, methodologies, approaches, and skills used to build a smart and sustainable built environment. We invite research and review articles that focus on digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technologies for smart buildings and sustainable environments, including indoor and outdoor environment sensing, control, and analysis and the impact on human well-being and energy. It will foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers by highlighting the environmental and societal implications of integrating digital and smart technologies into buildings and environments. Specific research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Environment monitoring: Smart sensor system and IoT-based applications in buildings;
- Environment modeling: Modeling and simulation for building environment and energy systems;
- Environment control: Intelligent technologies and control strategies for optimized environment and building performance;
- Building digitalization and digital twins: Interaction between real-world physics building with digital virtual models for simulation, prediction, and decision-making;
- Case Studies: Successful implementations and insights learned from around the world;
- Building Energy Efficiency: Advances in building in building energy conservation, management, and optimization;
- Building human well-being: Smart technologies that enhance occupant comfort, health, and overall well-being in built environments.
Dr. Kailai Sun
Dr. Haneul Choi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- building energy efficiency
- artificial intelligence
- digital twin
- occupancy
- building monitoring and control
- HVAC
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