Demand management is becoming an indispensable part of grid operation with its potential to aid supply/demand balancing, reduce peaks, mitigate congestions and improve voltage profiles in the grid. Effective deployments require a huge number of relia...
The transition towards energy-efficient and sustainable buildings is a cornerstone of global efforts to combat climate change. Building automation and control systems (BACSs), standardized under EN ISO 52120, and the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) h...
Technological innovation has revolutionized healthcare, particularly in neurological rehabilitation, where it has been used to address chronic conditions. Smart home and building automation (SH&BA) technologies offer promising solutions for manag...
This paper introduces the idea of activity-aware cyber-physical systems (CPS). Activity-aware systems allow smart city services to adapt to the needs of individual residents by being sensitive to their daily tasks. The paper first defines activity re...
The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) provides a European framework for assessing the capacity of buildings to optimise operation, respond to occupants and interact with energy grids. Its current catalogue covers nine domains: heating, cooling, domesti...
The automation of smart building design processes remains a significant challenge, particularly in translating complex natural language requirements into structured design parameters within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environments. Traditional design...
In the IT sector, the relevance of looking at security from many different angles and the inclusion of different areas is already known and understood. This approach is much less pronounced in the area of cyber physical systems and not present at all...
Modern building automation systems implement plenty of advanced control and monitoring functions that consider various parameters like users’ activity, lighting, temperature changes, etc. Moreover, novel solutions based on the Internet of Thing...
A hierarchicalmodel predictive controller (HMPC) is proposed for flexible and sustainable building automation. The implications of a building automation system for sustainability are defined, and model predictive control is introduced as an ideal too...
Smart building services are increasingly realised through combinations of sensors, actuators, communication infrastructures, software platforms, analytics, and artificial intelligence-based functions. These configurations enable adaptive control, rea...
The increasing role of automation systems in energy-efficient buildings creates a need for simulation approaches that support standardized assessment already at the design stage. This paper presents a digital twin-based simulation framework that inte...
Intelligent building management systems are proven to lead to energy savings and are an integral component of smart buildings. The procedures developed in the EN standards describe the methodology for calculating the energy savings achieved by improv...
Smart buildings increasingly depend on dense, distributed sensing infrastructures to improve energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality and operational flexibility. However, large-scale IoT/WSN deployment is still constrained by wiring effort, b...
Smart buildings (SBs) are developed in many different ways and are self-proclaimed smart. There are a great number of publications introducing smart systems using a wider range of tools and sensors. However, the level of smartness, functions of the s...
Smart buildings require an energy management system that can meet inhabitants’ demands with a reduced amount of energy consumed by the heating ventilation and air-conditioning system (HVAC), as well as the lighting and shading systems. This wor...
This study proposes a deep learning model utilizing the BACnet (Building Automation and Control Network) protocol for the real-time detection of mechanical faults and security vulnerabilities in building automation systems. Integrating various machin...
Distributed smart home systems using wireless communication are increasingly installed and operated in households. Their popularity is due to the ease of installation and configuration. This paper presents a comprehensive technical, quality, and ener...
Improving energy efficiency and increasing the level of intelligence are two main factors determining the current development trends for new and modernized buildings. They are especially important in the perspective of development of prosumer install...
Energy efficient prosumer microgrids (PMGs) with active and flexible demand side management (DSM) mechanisms are considered to be crucial elements of future smart grids. Due to an increasing share of renewable energy and the growing power demand, app...
Given its adaptable and efficient energy consuming devices during peak hours, the residential building sector is urged to take part in demand response (DR) initiatives with the use of a building energy management system (BMS). The residents of buildi...
The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) is a newly developed framework that measures a building’s technological readiness to improve its energy efficiency. The integration of data obtained from this framework with data derived from Building Informa...
Preserving ancient buildings can be improved using Building Information Modelling (BIM) models created from high-quality point-cloud data. The problems arise from the need for automatic extraction of the characteristics required to meet various secur...
The growing demand for energy efficiency and sustainability in smart buildings necessitates advanced AI-driven methods for adaptive control and predictive maintenance. This study explores the application of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) to event-dri...
In the last few years, the technology re-evolution has deeply transformed several aspects of everyday life. For sure, one technology with a strong impact is the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT paradigm made it possible to break down the d...
The growing importance of microgrids—linking buildings with distributed energy resources and storage—is driving the evolution of Smart Local Energy Systems (SLESs). These systems require advanced modeling and simulations to address growin...
A well-designed and properly operated building automation and control system (BACS) is key to attaining energy-efficient operation and optimal indoor conditions. In this study, three healthcare facilities of a different type, age, and use are conside...
The application of the most recent advances of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology to the automation of buildings is emerging as a promising solution to achieve greater efficiencies in energy consumption, and to allow the realization of sustainab...
The adoption of digital technologies into construction practices has become a critical area of interest, particularly in addressing challenges related to efficiency, quality, and sustainability. This study focuses on the impacts of digital technologi...
Healthcare buildings increasingly use sensing, analytics, digital twins and automated control, but technical performance alone does not establish healthcare benefits. This scoping review examines how publications connect indoor climate, patient and s...
Smart home and building systems are popular solutions that support maintaining comfort and safety and improve energy efficiency in buildings. However, dynamically developing distributed network technologies, in particular the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Construction projects usually involve signing various contracts with specific billing procedures. In practice, dealing with complex contract structures causes significant problems, especially with regard to timely payment and guaranteed cash flow. Fu...
Indoor lighting systems are a significant contributor to building energy consumption while also directly affecting occupant comfort and circadian regulation. Recent advances in smart lighting have introduced adaptive and human-centric approaches; how...
Smart-environment cybersecurity increasingly depends on experimental platforms that can reproduce attacks against buildings, homes, and cities under realistic conditions. However, the literature remains fragmented across testbed design, attack demons...
The increasing demand for IoT solutions in smart cities, coupled with the increasing use of sensors and actuators and automation in these environments, has highlighted the need for efficient communication between Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The...
Digital twins are becoming increasingly popular in the built environment, with building users asking for greater levels of data and digitisation, and the volume of research in the field growing. There remains a question as to whether the costs of dig...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on society. Scientists are working to mitigate the impact in many ways. As a field closely related to human life, building engineering can make a great contribution. In this article, we started with the con...
Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings by implementing building automation control strategies (BACS) besides building envelope and energy system retrofitting has been recommended by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)...
This paper presents a software-based modular and hierarchical building energy management system (BEMS) to control the power consumption in sensor-equipped buildings. In addition, the need of this type of solution is also highlighted by presenting the...
This article presents research results on a smart building prediction, navigation and asset management system. The main goal of this work was to combine all comfort subsystems, such as lighting, heating or air conditioning control, into one coherent...
Recent strategic policies and regulations dealing with market liberalization and decarbonization plans, such as the European directives contained in the recent EU Clean Energy for All Europeans Package, are seeking to promote new roles for citizens i...
The design and operation of multifunctional infrastructures for public lighting as well as their impact on the urban environment and citizens’ life is today of great interest. The cost of energy for public lighting is often an issue for the bud...
Buildings are among the most significant sources of energy consumption worldwide. Unfortunately, many are inefficient in terms of energy use, leading to high operational expenses. With modern technologies such as IoT sensors, smart meters, secure rea...
This paper presents an adaptive Machine Learning (ML)-based framework for automatic load optimization in Connected Smart Green Townhouses (CSGTs) The system dynamically optimizes load consumption and transitions between grid-connected and island mode...
Humanity’s way of life has been irreversibly transformed by new technological advancements during the past decades. Although such technological innovations have been gradually transposed into architecture, their full integration is not yet achi...
The paper contains a description of the building model structures and fuzzy control strategy. The aim of work was to describe fuzzy logic applied to the temperature control approach. The Simulink model of a widely popular building automation was used...
Adaptive lighting systems can be designed to detect the spatial characteristics of the visual environment and adjust the light output to increase visual comfort and performance. Such systems would require computational metrics to estimate occupants’...
Although it is often assumed that default rules affect change without awareness, this paper suggests that contrast with the default and transition into conscious adoption of the default design may be the starting point to establish long-term changes...
Energy consumption in hotels is strongly influenced by HVAC operation, lighting systems, and highly variable occupancy patterns. Internet of Things (IOT) technologies have been widely proposed to improve energy efficiency in building interiors; howev...
Increasing energy demand, decarbonization commitments, and growing expectations for thermal comfort are driving the need for more adaptive and efficient climate control in residential buildings. This review synthesizes contemporary intelligent HVAC c...
The increasing adoption of industrialized offsite construction (IOC) offers substantial benefits in efficiency, quality, and sustainability, yet presents persistent challenges related to data fragmentation, real-time monitoring, and coordination. Thi...
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