Efficient energy management is crucial for optimizing greenhouse (GH) operations and promoting sustainability. This paper presents a novel multi-objective optimization approach tailored for GH energy management, aiming to minimize grid energy consump...
Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have emerged as powerful tools for optimizing energy systems, offering the potential to enhance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. This review paper provides a comprehensive examination of the applicat...
This paper considers cognitive radio networks (CRNs) utilizing multiple time-slotted primary channels in which cognitive users (CUs) are powered by energy harvesters. The CUs are under the consideration that hardware constraints on radio devices only...
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 paper addresses the challenge of decarbonizing residential energy consumption by developing an advanced energy management system (EMS) optimized for cost reduction and energy efficiency. By leveraging the thermal inertia of building envelopes as...
District heating is seen as an important concept to decarbonize heating systems and meet climate mitigation goals. However, the decision related to where central heating is most viable is dependent on many different aspects, like heating densities or...
The current practice with building energy simulation software tools requires the manual entry of a large list of detailed inputs pertaining to the building characteristics, geographical region, schedule of operation, end users, occupancy, control asp...
This paper presents a quantized Kalman filter implemented using unreliable memories. We consider that both the quantization and the unreliable memories introduce errors in the computations, and we develop an error propagation model that takes into ac...
In recent years, there has been a growing global trend towards transitioning from centralized energy systems to distributed or decentralized models, with the aim of promoting the widespread utilization of renewable energy sources. As a result, the co...
From airplanes to electric vehicles and trains, modern transportation systems require large quantities of energy. These vast amounts of energy have to be produced somewhere—ideally by using sustainable sources—and then brought to the tran...
Subject to pressures from resource exhaustion and environmental pollution, many countries have aimed to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy as part of their decarbonization strategy. In the post-pandemic era, countries are making efforts to ex...
As energy systems become increasingly complex, there is a growing need for sustainable and efficient energy management strategies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, multi-energy systems (MES) have emerged as a promising solution tha...
In the current era, energy resources from the environment via piezoelectric materials are not only used for self-powered electronic devices, but also play a significant role in creating a pleasant living environment. Piezoelectric materials have the...
Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) play a key role in the decarbonization of many sectors of the economy and, thus, in achieving ambitious climate goals. Due to the complexity of the issues and the impact of many factors on the efficiency of the...
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are voluntary coalitions of citizens, small and medium-sized enterprises and local authorities, which cooperate to share locally produced renewable energy, providing environmental, economic, and social benefits rat...
The construction and gradual installation of turbines on wind farms has been hindered by the high cost of the energy production. An effective way to minimize energy costs is via the optimal design of wind turbines and their layout, but relevant and s...
Electric vehicles are key to sustainable mobility, but their limited range remains a major obstacle to widespread adoption. Extending driving distance requires optimizing energy use across subsystems. This study combines bibliometric mapping (2017&nd...
The need to reduce fossil fuels consumption and polluting emissions pushes towards the search of systems that combine traditional and renewable energy conversion units efficiently. The design and management of such systems are not easy tasks because...
The paper describes the development of an optimization model for the layout of an industrial robot relative to known locations of served machines and operations to be performed. Robotized material handling applications, defined by trajectories (paths...
In order to encourage energy saving and the adoption of renewable sources, this study provides a comprehensive experimental framework that integrates socioeconomic and behavioral objectives for the local energy community. The experiment aims to find...
The developing environmental consequences of excessive dependence on fossil fuels have pushed many countries to invest in clean and renewable energy sources. Mexico is a country that, due to its geographic and climatic diversity, can take advantage o...
Climate neutrality by 2050 is a priority objective and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and improving the circularity processes of resources are the imperatives of regulatory and economic instruments. Starting fr...
The rapid advancement in technology and rise in energy consumption have motivated research addressing Demand-Side Management (DSM). In this research, a novel design for Home Energy Management (HEM) is proposed that seamlessly integrates Battery Energ...
This paper presents the optimal sizing of a hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) for an isolated residential building using modified smell agent optimization (mSAO). The paper introduces a time-dependent approach that adapts the selection of the ori...
The growing diversity and number of industrial robots make energy consumption prediction and optimization increasingly essential. Current data-driven approaches, particularly those based on multi-layer perception (MLP), have shown feasibility but typ...
Water distribution and pumping systems consume a large share of energy in metro HVAC operations and remain a major challenge to energy-efficient performance. This study, grounded in a practical metro project, investigates four control strategies for...
Additive manufacturing (AM) is revolutionizing industrial production by enabling the fabrication of complex, customized components with reduced material waste. However, the scheduling of AM machines presents significant challenges in terms of optimiz...
This contribution is focused on the issue of the application of energy-saving measures in the construction of new residential properties and their optimal combinations with regard to the life-cycle costs of these buildings. The aim of the research is...
In this study, we examined the impact of an intelligent system and air conditioning control on power consumption. The experiment was carried out during five distinct time periods: (1) background room usage, (2) smart system setup, (3) air conditionin...
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a short-range and low-power communication protocol, has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. A part of BLE is the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) which defines the data communication between two devices. During the...
This work develops a methodology for operating Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) in distribution networks, connected in parallel with a medium- and small-scale photovoltaic Distributed Generator (PMGD), focusing on a real project located in the...
Rising greenhouse gas emissions stemming from road transport have intensified the need for efficient and environmentally friendly propulsion technologies. Hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles have emerged as a viable solution, integrating internal...
In recent years, unquestionable warnings like the negative effects of CO2 emissions, the necessity of utilizing sustainable energy sources, and the rising demand for municipal electrification have been issued. Therefore, users are encouraged to provi...
When traditional HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) systems are in operation, they often run according to the designed operating conditions. In fact, they operate under part-load conditions for more than 90% of the time, resulting in e...
This publication presents a coordination mechanism for neighboring photovoltaic (PV) battery systems with local optimizing energy management (EM). The aim of this coordination is a high degree of self-sufficiency for the neighborhood while maintainin...
With global carbon emissions continuing to rise and urban energy demands growing steadily, understanding how urban block morphology impacts building photovoltaic (PV) efficiency and energy consumption has become crucial for sustainable urban developm...
As water and electrical networks cannot be entirely independent, a more integrated approach, the water–energy nexus (WEN), is developed. A WEN is the basis of a smart city where water and electrical networks are interconnected and integrated by...
Due to the exponential increase in the human population of this bio-sphere, energy resources are becoming scarce. Because of the traditional methods, most of the generated energy is wasted every year in the distribution network and demand side. There...
Energy efficiency is widely recognized as a critical strategy for reducing energy consumption in industrial systems. Improving energy efficiency has become a central point in industrial systems aiming to reduce energy consumption and operational cost...
In addition to its potential for wave power, wind power, hydropower, and solar power, it can be said that Vietnam is a country with great potential for biomass energy derived from agricultural waste, garbage, and urban wastewater, which are resources...
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a critical pathway in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and fostering sustainable urban development. This study introduces a simulation-based multi-objective optimization framework designed to enhance...
High transmission reliability, energy efficiency, and long lifetime are pivotal issues for wireless body area networks (WBANs. However, these performance metrics are not independent of each other, making it hard to obtain overall improvements through...
Building penetrations are the most-potent elements providing daylight and moderating the lighting energy consumption and affecting indoor comfort and consequent energy usage. In a semi-tropical climate with a green environment such as Sydney, there i...
The increasing penetration of distributed renewable energy resources and the emergence of prosumers are reshaping the operational landscape of distribution grids. This work proposes a comprehensive prosumer-centric control and coordination framework...
For a communication control system in a disaster area where drones (also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)) are used as aerial base stations (ABSs), the reliability of communication is a key challenge for drones to provide emergency communicatio...
The efficient and sustainable design of robotic manufacturing cells is a critical aspect of modern industrial processes, for which energy and time efficiency play significant roles in achieving sustainability goals. In industrial practice, robotic ce...
Electrical devices are integral to daily life, but limited battery life remains a significant issue. A proposed solution is to convert dissipated energy from human motion into electricity using piezoelectric materials. This study investigates lead&nd...
The increased integration of renewable energy sources (RESs), such as photovoltaic and wind turbine systems, in microgrids poses significant challenges due to fluctuating weather conditions and load demands. To address these challenges, this study in...
Slowing down replacement cycles to reduce resource depletion and prevent waste generation is a promising path toward a circular economy (CE). However, an obligation to longevity only sometimes makes sense. It could sometimes even backfire if one focu...
Escalating energy costs in recent years have spurred an examination of energy cost reduction strategies. Among these, exploring spot markets and building photovoltaic power plants at water facilities have emerged as promising options. This study focu...
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