Skip to Content
You are currently on the new version of our website. Access the old version .

3,941 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,935 Views
20 Pages

19 May 2020

Energy-saving strategies cannot be implemented without having detailed and regular power consumption data of a facility. The installation of an energy monitoring and data logging system can help in planning energy efficiency improvement policies by p...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,244 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of Energy Efficiency Using an Energy Monitoring System: A Case Study of a Major Energy-Consuming Enterprise in Vietnam

  • Minh Nguyen Dat,
  • Kien Duong Trung,
  • Phap Vu Minh,
  • Chau Dinh Van and ,
  • Quynh T. Tran and
  • Trung Nguyen Ngoc
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 July 2023

Vietnam’s economy has been growing rapidly in the last 20 years, leading to significant increases in energy consumption as well as in carbon emissions. Most electricity is consumed by loads of industry and construction due to the country’s socio-econ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Key Technologies and Challenges for Power Electronics System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,121 Views
24 Pages

Ensuring Energy Efficiency of Air Quality Monitoring Systems Based on Internet of Things Technology

  • Krzysztof Przystupa,
  • Nataliya Bernatska,
  • Elvira Dzhumelia,
  • Tomasz Drzymała and
  • Orest Kochan

16 July 2025

Air quality monitoring systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology are critical for addressing environmental and public health challenges, but their energy efficiency poses a significant challenge to their autonomous and scalable deployment....

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
14,433 Views
29 Pages

Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings with an IoT-Based Smart Monitoring System

  • Fateme Dinmohammadi,
  • Anaah M. Farook and
  • Mahmood Shafiee

5 March 2025

With greenhouse gas emissions and climate change continuing to be major global concerns, researchers are increasingly focusing on reducing energy consumption as a key strategy to address these challenges. In recent years, various devices and technolo...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
12,552 Views
15 Pages

An IoT-Based Solution for Monitoring a Fleet of Educational Buildings Focusing on Energy Efficiency

  • Dimitrios Amaxilatis,
  • Orestis Akrivopoulos,
  • Georgios Mylonas and
  • Ioannis Chatzigiannakis

10 October 2017

Raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage is key to achieving sustained energy saving. Additionally, young people are very sensitive to environmental protection so raising awareness among chi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensors for Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,230 Views
21 Pages

Synergy in Action: Integrating Environmental Monitoring, Energy Efficiency, and IoT for Safer Shared Buildings

  • Alessandro Franco,
  • Emanuele Crisostomi,
  • Stefano Dalmiani and
  • Roberta Poletti

12 April 2024

Shared public buildings have become centers of innovation, integrating advanced technologies to meet evolving societal needs. With a heightened emphasis on occupants’ health and well-being, these buildings serve as hubs for technological conver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Analysis and Energy Modeling in Smart and Zero-Energy Buildings and Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,234 Views
16 Pages

8 June 2022

Environmental organizations have alerted that rapid weather phenomena have intensified in recent years, such as floods, hurricanes, whirlwinds, droughts, fires and storms, caused by the deteriorating condition of the natural environment. Carbon emiss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Saving and Zero-Energy Systems: Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy Efficiency, Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,297 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2022

The wireless sensor network (WSN), a communication system widely used in the Internet of Things, usually collects physical data in a natural environment and monitors abnormal events. Because of the redundancy of natural data, a compressed-sensing-bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compressed Sensing and Imaging Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,778 Views
19 Pages

15 March 2025

The rising cost of energy and the urgent need for sustainability have driven industries to adopt smarter solutions for monitoring and optimizing resource consumption. In this study, we present an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-based approach fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Robotics in the Era of Industry 5.0)
  • Review
  • Open Access
718 Views
22 Pages

6 September 2026

Food cold chains rely on refrigeration, cold storage, refrigerated transport, packaging and monitoring systems that consume electricity and fuel while preserving food safety, quality and shelf life. Although many studies propose energy-saving technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,872 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2021

An energy efficiency monitoring method of the steam turbine system is studied in this paper. Multivariate state estimation technique (MSET) is utilized to compare the actual monitoring parameters and the healthy data of the equipment in normal workin...

(This article belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,776 Views
27 Pages

Smart Sustainable Freight Transport for a City Multi-Floor Manufacturing Cluster: A Framework of the Energy Efficiency Monitoring of Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging

  • Liudmyla Davydenko,
  • Nina Davydenko,
  • Andrii Bosak,
  • Alla Bosak and ,
  • Agnieszka Deja and
  • Tygran Dzhuguryan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 May 2022

This study focuses on the problem of the efficient energy management of an independent fleet of freight electric vehicles (EVs) providing service to a city multi-floor manufacturing cluster (CMFMC) within a metropolis while considering the requiremen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Challenge for Creating a Smart & Sustainable City through Logistics, Transportation Management, and Tourism Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,012 Views
25 Pages

EPMOSt: An Energy-Efficient Passive Monitoring System for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Fernando P. Garcia,
  • Rossana M. C. Andrade,
  • Carina T. Oliveira and
  • José Neuman De Souza

19 June 2014

Monitoring systems are important for debugging and analyzing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In passive monitoring, a monitoring network needs to be deployed in addition to the network to be monitored, named the target network. The monitoring network...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,710 Views
16 Pages

The fresh water in rivers beneath the Earth’s surface is as significant to humans as that on the surface. However, the water quality is difficult to monitor due to its unapproachable nature. In this work, we consider building networks to monitor wate...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,496 Views
13 Pages

Energy-Efficient Wireless Multimedia Sensor Nodes for Plant Proximal Monitoring

  • Daniele Trinchero,
  • Giovanni Paolo Colucci,
  • Elena Filipescu,
  • Ussama Syed Muhammad Zafar and
  • Paola Battilani

18 December 2024

The paper presents a double-radio wireless multimedia sensor node (WMSN) with a camera on board, designed for plant proximal monitoring. Camera sensor nodes represent an effective solution to monitor the crop at the leaf or fruit scale, with details...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,256 Views
25 Pages

Smart Monitoring Embedded Service for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Management in Data Centers

  • Diego Marcos-Jorquera,
  • Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias,
  • Francisco José Mora-Gimeno and
  • Juan Antonio Gil-Martínez-Abarca

1 July 2016

Information technologies (IT) currently represent 2% of CO2 emissions. In recent years, a wide variety of IT solutions have been proposed, focused on increasing the energy efficiency of network data centers. Monitoring is one of the fundamental pilla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,168 Views
19 Pages

An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Medical Emergency Monitoring Body Sensor Networks

  • Chongqing Zhang,
  • Yinglong Wang,
  • Yongquan Liang,
  • Minglei Shu and
  • Changfang Chen

17 March 2016

Medical emergency monitoring body sensor networks (BSNs) monitor the occurrence of medical emergencies and are helpful for the daily care of the elderly and chronically ill people. Such BSNs are characterized by rare traffic when there is no emergenc...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,402 Views
27 Pages

SEER-PM: A Secure and Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Pipeline Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Rasha Hasan,
  • Rafe Alasem,
  • Ahmed Akl Mahmoud,
  • Yazeed Alsarhan and
  • Mahmud Mansour

19 June 2026

Oil and gas pipelines are critical infrastructures that require continuous and reliable monitoring to detect leaks, pressure anomalies, corrosion, and unauthorized activities. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged as an effective solution for...

(This article belongs to the Section Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,347 Views
14 Pages

5 November 2017

Power management is crucial in the monitoring of a remote environment, especially when long-term monitoring is needed. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind may be harvested to sustain a monitoring system. However, without proper power mana...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,282 Views
34 Pages

Energy-, Cost-, and Resource-Efficient IoT Hazard Detection System with Adaptive Monitoring

  • Chiang Liang Kok,
  • Jovan Bowen Heng,
  • Yit Yan Koh and
  • Tee Hui Teo

12 March 2025

Hazard detection in industrial and public environments is critical for ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. This paper presents an energy-efficient, cost-effective IoT-based hazard detection system utilizing an ESP32-CAM microcontroller integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Based SoCs, FPGA in IoT Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,541 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2023

Crop monitoring and smart spraying have become indispensable parts of precision agriculture where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a lead role. In particular, in large agricultural fields, aerial monitoring is a sustainable solution provided it c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue To the Future: Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Agriculture and Healthcare from a Sustainability Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,628 Views
30 Pages

30 January 2026

This paper presents the results of research on an innovative, integrated IACMS (Intelligent Integrated Automation, Control, and Monitoring System), developed for energy-efficient operation of auxiliary machinery in ship engine rooms. The system, vali...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,338 Views
34 Pages

12 July 2023

Sensor networks, as a special subtype of wireless networks, consist of sets of wirelessly connected sensor nodes often placed in hard-to-reach environments. Therefore, it is expected that sensor nodes will not be powered from the power grid. Instead,...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,946 Views
15 Pages

29 May 2024

System health monitoring (SHM) of a ball screw laboratory system using an embedded real-time platform based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology was developed. The ball screw condition assessment algorithms based on machine learning app...

(This article belongs to the Topic Predictive Analytics and Fault Diagnosis of Machines with Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,049 Views
15 Pages

Energy Efficiency Optimization in Swarm Robotics for Smart Photovoltaic Monitoring

  • Dimitris Ziouzios,
  • Nikolaos Baras,
  • Minas Dasygenis,
  • Vayos Karayannis and
  • Constantinos Tsanaktsidis

22 March 2025

Photovoltaic park (PV) and power generator monitoring is a crucial activity that calls for effective coverage path planning. Artificial intelligence and particularly swarm robotics have brought new methods to tasks such as coverage path planning by h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities and the Need for Green Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,264 Views
24 Pages

Internet-of-Things (IoT) Platform for Road Energy Efficiency Monitoring

  • Asmus Skar,
  • Anders Vestergaard,
  • Shahrzad M. Pour and
  • Matteo Pettinari

2 March 2023

The road transportation sector is a dominant and growing energy consumer. Although investigations to quantify the road infrastructure’s impact on energy consumption have been carried out, there are currently no standard methods to measure or la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities: Sensors and IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,747 Views
14 Pages

25 June 2015

Energy efficiency enhancement has become an increasingly important issue for battery electric vehicles. Even if it can be improved in many ways, the driver’s driving pattern strongly influences the battery energy consumption of a vehicle. In this pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,208 Views
25 Pages

4 June 2023

This study is devoted to improving the energy efficiency of urban infrastructure systems (UISs), in particular, the centralized water supply of a city multifloor manufacturing cluster (CMFMC), by developing the principles of effective energy consumpt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Energy Transition in Transport and Logistics in Modern, Low-Emission, Smart and Sustainable Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,349 Views
21 Pages

A Household Energy Efficiency Index Assessment Method Based on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Data

  • Xiangyu Kong,
  • Shijian Zhu,
  • Xianxu Huo,
  • Shupeng Li and ,
  • Ye Li and
  • Siqiong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 May 2020

Various countries in the world are vigorously developing energy-saving industries and attaching importance to the improvement of household energy efficiency, but it is difficult to evaluate user power consumption characteristics due to insufficient i...

(This article belongs to the Collection Energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,999 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing the Efficiency of Integrated Energy Systems by the Redistribution of Heat Based on Monitoring Data

  • Andrii Radchenko,
  • Mykola Radchenko,
  • Hanna Koshlak,
  • Roman Radchenko and
  • Serhiy Forduy

21 November 2022

Integrated energy systems (IES) for combined power, heat and refrigeration supply achieved a wide application due to high flexibility in matching current loading. So as electricity is easily convertible into any other form of energy, gas engines are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Research of Building Heat and Mass Transfer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,176 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2019

Recently, radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (RFEH) has become a promising technology for a battery-less sensor module. The ambient RF radiation from the available sources is captured by receiver antennas and converted to electrical energy, which...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,394 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Surface Temperature Sensor to Enhance Energy Efficiency Actions in Buildings

  • Lia Mota,
  • Alexandre Mota,
  • Cláudia Pezzuto,
  • Marcius Carvalho and ,
  • Marina Lavorato,
  • Lorenzo Coiado and
  • Everton Oliveira
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 September 2018

The air temperature increase in urban centers can lead to problems such as increased energy consumption associated to air conditioning, the intensification of pollution, human discomfort and health problems. In this context, the building envelope pla...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,382 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2021

This paper proposes a new approach to the construction of an autonomous weight sensor for electronic beehive scales, constituting a crucial part in equipment used in the modern beekeeping economy. The main goal of this work is to demonstrate a method...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,469 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2020

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have long been used for many applications. The efficiency of a WSN is subject to its monitoring accuracy and limited energy capacity. Thus, accurate detection and limited energy are two crucial problems for WSNs. Some...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensors, Big Data Analytics and Modelling in Healthcare and Personalized Medical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,441 Views
31 Pages

27 June 2022

The application of energy-efficiency strategies in buildings is a hot topic around the world; in some countries, there are regulations with more or less degree of compliance, but in most countries located in the tropical zone, there are no regulation...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,110 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2025

Alongside technological innovations, the energy transition requires notable behavioral changes in the residential sector. Smart technologies (STs) can support this shift by promoting transparency, energy-conscious behavior, and automated efficiency g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Built Environments: Integrating Circular Materials, Green Infrastructures, and Smart Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,114 Views
26 Pages

20 April 2026

The strain on the global food sector to reconcile environmental sustainability with operational efficiency has been intensifying. In a growing economy, this study investigates the revolutionary potential of integrated digital ecosystems that include...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,850 Views
21 Pages

Wireless Body Area Network Control Policies for Energy-Efficient Health Monitoring

  • Yair Bar David,
  • Tal Geller,
  • Ilai Bistritz,
  • Irad Ben-Gal and ,
  • Nicholas Bambos and
  • Evgeni Khmelnitsky
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 June 2021

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have strong potential in the field of health monitoring. However, the energy consumption required for accurate monitoring determines the time between battery charges of the wearable sensors, which is a key performa...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,918 Views
26 Pages

Energy Savings in University Buildings: The Potential Role of Smart Monitoring and IoT Technologies

  • Alessandro Franco,
  • Emanuele Crisostomi,
  • Francesco Leccese,
  • Antonio Mugnani and
  • Stefano Suin

27 December 2024

Environmental monitoring systems integrated with IoT networks have rapidly evolved, enabling the collection of vast amounts of data accessible to facility managers and authorized users via smartphone apps. This paper presents a system developed to mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Sustainable Building Practices: Integrating Green Materials, Healthy Structures, and AI-Driven Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,463 Views
18 Pages

6 March 2026

The transition towards sustainable educational campuses requires robust energy management strategies that integrate operational oversight with advanced analytics. This paper presents a campus-scale electricity monitoring system at the University of A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative and Smart Renewable Energy Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon and Sustainable Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,309 Views
33 Pages

15 May 2025

The increasing demand for sustainable and autonomous monitoring solutions in critical infrastructure has driven interest in Green Internet of Things (G-IoT) systems. This paper presents an analytical and experimental framework for designing energy-ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficient Design in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,470 Views
23 Pages

Selected Issues, Methods, and Trends in the Energy Consumption of Industrial Robots

  • Agnieszka Sękala,
  • Tomasz Blaszczyk,
  • Krzysztof Foit and
  • Gabriel Kost

29 January 2024

Industrial robots, like all machines, require energy to operate, which is why energy efficiency in industrial robotics has been a subject of consideration in recent years in many scientific and industrial centers. Interest in the topic is especially...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Consumption in the EU Countries II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,466 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2025

Forest fire monitoring is of great significance for ecological protection and public safety. This study proposes a monitoring technology based on LoRa-Mesh (Long Range-Mesh) wireless communication, integrating temperature and humidity sensing, image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,991 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2018

This work presents a new approach to the maximization of energy and throughput in a wireless sensor network (WSN), with the intention of applying the approach to water-quality monitoring. Water-quality monitoring using WSN technology has become an in...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,371 Views
20 Pages

16 April 2020

The energy consumption of buildings is very important for both economic and environmental reasons. Newly built buildings are characterized by higher insulation and airtightness of the building envelope, and are additionally equipped with technologies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Buildings Thermal Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,307 Views
22 Pages

A Review of Energy and Sustainability KPI-Based Monitoring and Control Methodologies on WWTPs

  • Bárbara de Matos,
  • Rodrigo Salles,
  • Jérôme Mendes,
  • Joana R. Gouveia and ,
  • António J. Baptista and
  • Pedro Moura
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 December 2022

Humanity faces serious problems related to water supply, which will be aggravated by population growth. The water used in human activities must be treated to make it available again without posing risks to human health and the environment. In this co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence Methodologies for Industries)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,395 Views
19 Pages

The transition to renewable energy requires sustainable solar manufacturing through optimized Production–Usage–Recycling (PUR) cycles, where electromagnetic (EM) sensing offers non-destructive monitoring solutions. This review categorizes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,109 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2025

Energy efficiency in shared environments, such as offices and laboratories, is hindered by a lack of individual accountability. Traditional smart metering provides aggregated data but fails to attribute consumption to specific users, limiting the eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency of the Buildings: 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,432 Views
15 Pages

Remote Monitoring and Energy Grade Evaluation for Water-Based Centrifugal Pumps Based on Browser/Server Architecture

  • Shenlong Gao,
  • Mengjiao Zhao,
  • Jingming Liu,
  • Qiang Huang and ,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jie Liu and
  • Tie Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2025

This study presents an online evaluation system for the energy efficiency grade of centrifugal pump units using a Browser/Server architecture. The system employs direct calculation and characteristic curve fitting methods to evaluate efficiency, with...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,040 Views
41 Pages

6 May 2025

Air pollution imposes a substantial economic burden globally, with estimated annual losses exceeding $8.1 trillion due to healthcare costs, lost productivity, infrastructure degradation, and agricultural damage. This review assesses the economic effe...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)

of 79