Special Issue "Electrification of Smart Cities"

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Chun Sing Lai
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Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Brunel University London, London UB8 3PH, UK
Interests: smart cities; energy data analytics; smart grids; energy system techno-economic analysis
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Dr. Kim-Fung Tsang
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Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: Internet of Things standards; sensors; wireless protocols; network optimization; emerging networks of Internet of Things; artificial intelligence for smart applications; blockchain and cyber security for Internet of Things
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Prof. Yinhai Wang
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Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Washington, USA
Interests: infrastructure and smart cities; transportation engineering; traffic detection systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Electrification plays a key role in decarbonizing energy consumption for various sectors, including transportation, heating, and cooling. There are several essential infrastructures for a smart city, including smart grids and transportation networks. These infrastructures are the complementary solutions to successfully developing novel services, with enhanced energy efficiency and energy security.

This Special Issue seeks high-quality papers that address issues related to cutting-edge smart city technologies in the electrification process. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Electrification of building environments and transportation systems;
  • Role and impact of smart grids for smart cities;
  • ICT and IoT infrastructures with big data for smart cities electrification;
  • Market, services, and business models for smart cities electrification;
  • Standards and implementation for smart cities electrification;
  • Advanced smart grid technology integration in smart cities, such as energy storage, demand-side management, and distributed energy resources.

Dr. Chun Sing Lai
Dr. Kim-Fung Tsang
Prof. Yinhai Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Electrification of building environments and transportation systems
  • Role and impact of smart grids for smart cities
  • ICT and IoT infrastructures with big data for smart cities electrification
  • Market, services and business models for smart cities electrification
  • Standards and implementation for smart cities electrification
  • Advanced smart grid technology integration in smart city such as energy storage, demand side management, and distributed energy resources

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Video Super-Resolution Based on Generative Adversarial Network and Edge Enhancement
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 459; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040459 - 13 Feb 2021
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With the help of deep neural networks, video super-resolution (VSR) has made a huge breakthrough. However, these deep learning-based methods are rarely used in specific situations. In addition, training sets may not be suitable because many methods only assume that under ideal circumstances, [...] Read more.
With the help of deep neural networks, video super-resolution (VSR) has made a huge breakthrough. However, these deep learning-based methods are rarely used in specific situations. In addition, training sets may not be suitable because many methods only assume that under ideal circumstances, low-resolution (LR) datasets are downgraded from high-resolution (HR) datasets in a fixed manner. In this paper, we proposed a model based on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and edge enhancement to perform super-resolution (SR) reconstruction for LR and blur videos, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV). The adversarial loss allows discriminators to be trained to distinguish between SR frames and ground truth (GT) frames, which is helpful to produce realistic and highly detailed results. The edge enhancement function uses the Laplacian edge module to perform edge enhancement on the intermediate result, which helps further improve the final results. In addition, we add the perceptual loss to the loss function to obtain a higher visual experience. At the same time, we also tried training network on different datasets. A large number of experiments show that our method has advantages in the Vid4 dataset and other LR videos. Full article
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An Improved Multi-Exposure Image Fusion Method for Intelligent Transportation System
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040383 - 04 Feb 2021
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In this paper, an improved multi-exposure image fusion method for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is proposed. Further, a new multi-exposure image dataset for traffic signs, TrafficSign, is presented to verify the method. In the intelligent transportation system, as a type of important [...] Read more.
In this paper, an improved multi-exposure image fusion method for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is proposed. Further, a new multi-exposure image dataset for traffic signs, TrafficSign, is presented to verify the method. In the intelligent transportation system, as a type of important road information, traffic signs are fused by this method to obtain a fused image with moderate brightness and intact information. By estimating the degree of retention of different features in the source image, the fusion results have adaptive characteristics similar to that of the source image. Considering the weather factor and environmental noise, the source image is preprocessed by bilateral filtering and dehazing algorithm. Further, this paper uses adaptive optimization to improve the quality of the output image of the fusion model. The qualitative and quantitative experiments on the new dataset show that the multi-exposure image fusion algorithm proposed in this paper is effective and practical in the ITS. Full article
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A Novel Power Market Mechanism Based on Blockchain for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 307; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030307 - 27 Jan 2021
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This work presents a novel blockchain-based energy trading mechanism for electric vehicles consisting of day-ahead and real-time markets. In the day-ahead market, electric vehicle users submit their bidding price to participate in the double auction mechanism. Subsequently, the smart match mechanism will be [...] Read more.
This work presents a novel blockchain-based energy trading mechanism for electric vehicles consisting of day-ahead and real-time markets. In the day-ahead market, electric vehicle users submit their bidding price to participate in the double auction mechanism. Subsequently, the smart match mechanism will be conducted by the charging system operator, to meet both personal interests and social benefits. After clearing the trading result, the charging system operator uploads the trading contract made in the day-ahead market to the blockchain. In the real-time market, the charging system operator checks the trading status and submits the updated trading results to the blockchain. This mechanism encourages participants in the double auction to pursue higher interests, in addition to rationally utilize the energy unmatched in the auction and to achieve the improvement of social welfare. Case studies are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. For buyers and sellers who successfully participate in the day-ahead market, the total profit increase for buyer and seller are 22.79% and 53.54%, respectively, as compared to without energy trading. With consideration of social welfare in the smart match mechanism, the peak load reduces from 182 to 146.5 kW, which is a 19.5% improvement. Full article
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