This paper presents a model for transactive energy management within microgrids (MGs) that include smart homes and buildings. The model focuses on peer-to-peer (P2P) transactive energy management among these homes, establishing a collaborative use of...
The current expansion of building structures has created a demand for efficient and smart surface quality evaluation at the acceptance phase. However, the conventional approach mainly relies on manual work, which is labor-intensive, time-consuming, a...
This publication presents a system for integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions with building automation systems. The platform is based on cloud solutions and can integrate with one of the most popular virtual building manag...
The main focus of this paper is the most recent phase of a large research project that has studied several wooden roof structures in the area of Bologna, belonging to a set of important historical buildings, all dating back to the 16th and 18th centu...
In recent years, the number of super high-rise buildings is increasing due to the rapid development of economy and construction technology. It is important to evaluate the health condition of super high-rise buildings to make them operate safely. How...
Monitoring the indoor environment of historic buildings helps to identify potential risks, provide guidelines for improving regular maintenance, and preserve cultural artifacts. However, most of the existing monitoring systems proposed for historic b...
This paper presents an advanced hierarchical classification framework using the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to segment and classify large-scale point clouds of heritage buildings. By integrating the Uniclass classification system into a multi-resolu...
A robot can accurately localize itself and navigate in an indoor environment based on information about the operating environment, often called a world or a map. While typical maps describe structural layouts of buildings, the accuracy of localizatio...
A flood-producing heavy rainfall event occurred at the mountainous coastal region in the northeast of South Korea on 5–6 August 2018, subsequent to extreme heat waves, through a quasi-stationary mesoscale convective system (MCS). We analyzed th...
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide safer, greener, and more convenient mobility, while reducing the impact on the environment. In recent years, simulation platforms have been employed to study ITS applications, mostly focusing on traffi...
Due to its potential benefits in data transparency, maintenance, and optimization of operation, the Internet of Things (IoT) has recently emerged in the building automation system (BAS) domain. However, while various IoT devices have been developed,...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the development of various applications for energy, exploiting unprecedented data collection, multi-stage data processing, enhanced awareness, and control of the physical environment. In this context, the avai...
To address the complex structures of historical buildings in Mindong, lack of historical reference materials, and heavy workload of traditional surveying and mapping methods in the field, a 3D reconstruction method of historical building based on a w...
Total and automatic digitalization of indoor spaces in 3D implies a great advance in building maintenance and construction tasks, which currently require visits and manual works. Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) have been widely used for these tasks,...
With the development of the fourth industrial technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, developed countries including the U.S. are investigating the efficiency of national defense, the public sector and national innovation...
Extraction and analysis of building façades are key processes in the three-dimensional (3D) building reconstruction and realistic geometrical modeling of the urban environment, which includes many applications, such as smart city management, autonomo...
A 3D building model retrieval method using airborne LiDAR point clouds as input queries is introduced. Based on the concept of data reuse, available building models in the Internet that have geometric shapes similar to a user-specified point cloud qu...
Building Automation (BA) is key to encourage the growth of more sustainable cities and smart homes. However, current BA systems are not able to manage new constructions based on Adaptable/Dynamic Building Envelopes (ADBE) achieving near-zero energy-e...
Currently, urban renovation activities in China are booming. And promoting the renovation of public buildings is a key feature of urban renovation due to its large scale, high cost, and significant impact to the natural and social environment. To red...
We have designed a real-world smart building energy fault detection (SBFD) system on a cloud-based Databricks workspace, a high-performance computing (HPC) environment for big-data-intensive applications powered by Apache Spark. By avoiding a Smart B...
The authors combine the cellular automata with particle system to realize the three-dimensional modeling and visualization of the cloud in the paper. First, we use the principle of particle systems to simulate the outline of the cloud; generate unifo...
This Special Issue gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of the use of low-cost photogrammetric and lidar sensors for indoor building reconstruction. It includes contributions presenting improvements in the alignment of mobile mapping...
Heritage buildings can now be surveyed in great detail using geospatial techniques such as photogrammetry and TLS to produce dense point-clouds. For the purposes of research and building analyses, data about interventions and other relevant semantic...
With the development of intelligent unmanned systems, it is important for indoor mobile mapping and structural perception to reconstruct building structures in a timely manner from sequential LiDAR point clouds. However, many existing reconstruction...
Large and complex steel structures play a vital role in building construction. However, deviations between the design model and the actual construction state are inevitable, which seriously affects the quality and safety of building construction. In...
Clouds do not work in isolation but interact with other clouds and with a variety of systems either developed by the same provider or by external entities with the purpose to interact with them; forming then an ecosystem. A software ecosystem is a co...
Point clouds are very common tools used in the work of documenting historic heritage buildings. These clouds usually comprise millions of unrelated points and are not presented in an efficient data structure, making them complicated to use. Furthermo...
A cloud data center for software-as-a-service (SaaS) was built for the purpose of stably managing these server computers in one place in order to provide an uninterrupted service, not only for a stable power supply and security but also for the effic...
The primary objective of the current fire protection system in high-rise buildings is to extinguish fires in close proximity to the detectors. However, in the event of rapidly spreading fires, it is more effective to limit the transmission of fire an...
The Building Information Model (BIM) has been increasingly adopted for building maintenance and management. For existing buildings lacking prior digital models, a BIM is often generated from 3D scanned point clouds. In recent years, the automatic con...
An IoT-based wireless centralized monitoring system has been proposed which is an effective way to monitor and control building systems. The system will serve the purpose of replacing an old and expensive PLC-based and wire-based management system. T...
Very often, constructors and designers of intelligent building and building automation systems have a choice: to create a compact system with a limited configuration and modifying the system’s behavior possibilities or provide a fully configurable so...
The use of monitoring systems based on cloud computing has become common for smart buildings. However, the dilemma of centralization versus decentralization, in terms of gathering information and making the right decisions based on it, remains. Perfo...
Thermal imagery is widely used in various fields of remote sensing. In this study, a novel processing scheme is developed to process the data acquired by the oblique airborne photogrammetric system AOS-Tx8 consisting of four thermal cameras and four...
Building information modeling (BIM) is a process that has shown great potential in the building industry, but it has not reached the same level of maturity for transportation infrastructure. There is a standardization need for information exchange an...
Building reconstruction using high-resolution tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) point clouds has been very attractive in numerous applications, such as urban planning and dynamic city modeling. However, for side-looking TomoSAR, it is a...
Prefabricated buildings are the future direction of the construction industry. The carbon reduction in prefabricated buildings has attracted increasing attention due to its importance to low-carbon and energy savings in the construction industry and...
It is well known that cloud computing has many potential advantages over traditional distributed systems. Many enterprises can build their own private cloud with open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) frameworks. Since enterprise applications...
The combination of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms have garnered considerable interest in recent years because of the wide range of applications performed through the generation of point clouds,...
Building extraction has attracted much attentions for decades as a prerequisite for many applications and is still a challenging topic in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing. Due to the lack of spectral information, massive data processing...
Driven by technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, smart buildings have developed rapidly, and the demand for processing massive amounts of data has risen sharply. Traditional cloud computing is confronted with challen...
Vehicle passing angles are critical metrics for evaluating the geometric passability of vehicles. The accurate measurement of these angles is essential for route planning in complex terrain and in guiding the production of specialized vehicles. Howev...
Illuminance modeling that allows us to mimic or even replicate the dynamics of daylight changes is increasingly becoming a challenge for the development of more accurate prediction systems of natural light availability in building interiors or variat...
In the building material and stones market, lots of restrictions are coming in different world zones. In Europe, a recent regulatory set up the maximum level of radiological emissions for materials intended for use in public and private building stru...
Currently, there are several challenges that cloud-based healthcare systems around the world are facing. The most important issue is to ensure security and privacy, or in other words, to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the...
The 3D modeling of urban buildings has become a common research area in various disciplines such as photogrammetry and computer vision, with different applications such as intelligent city management, navigation of self-driving cars and architecture,...
In recent years, the utilization of cloud technology has witnessed a surge, particularly in the domains of industrial automation and intelligent scenarios. However, the prevailing spring fatigue testing machine is still in the traditional single-mach...
Accurate and complete 3D point clouds are essential in creating as-built building information modeling (BIM) models, although there are challenges in automating the process for 3D point cloud creation in complex environments. In this paper, an autono...
This paper presented the architecture and construction of a novel smart building system that could monitor and control buildings’ use in a safe and optimal way. The system operates on a Raspberry local server, which could be connected via the cloud t...
In the cloud computing information technology environment, cloud computing has some advantages such as lower cost, immediate access to hardware resources, lower IT barriers to innovation, higher scalability, etc., but for the financial audit informat...
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