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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,090 Views
17 Pages

XR Technology Deployment in Value Creation

  • Tim Krodel,
  • Vera Schott and
  • Jivka Ovtcharova

18 April 2023

With increasing computing power and data transmission performance of information technologies, the application scenarios for Extended Reality (XR) technologies in industries are growing. Despite the ongoing scientific investigation of industrial XR a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extended Reality Applications in Industrial Systems)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,002 Views
37 Pages

25 November 2025

Accelerating the diffusion of renewable energy requires clear evidence on which determinants enable or hinder deployment across contexts. This study aims to identify the most frequently discussed contemporary determinants of renewable energy deployme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies for a Sustainable Future: Towards Sustainable Energy Supply)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,067 Views
38 Pages

Agricultural marketing increasingly integrates Agriculture 4.0 technologies—Blockchain, AI/ML, IoT, and recommendation systems—yet systematic evaluations of computational maturity and deployment readiness remain limited. This Systematic L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,875 Views
15 Pages

Maritime decarbonization and strict international regulations have forced liner companies to find new solutions for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. Green technology is regarded as one of the most promising alte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Operations in Maritime Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,498 Views
13 Pages

Social License in the Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Technology

  • J. R. Lovering,
  • S. H. Baker and
  • T. R. Allen

16 July 2021

The deployment of advanced nuclear technologies is anticipated to be part of the actions required to mitigate global climate change. The successful deployment of these new technologies, like all new infrastructure projects, will be more successful if...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Expanding Nuclear Applications and Technologies for a Clean Energy Future)
  • Review
  • Open Access
790 Views
21 Pages

Global labour shortages in the agricultural sector, combined with diminishing arable land and a growing population, are driving investment in autonomous agricultural machinery. Autonomous systems that can navigate crop environments and perform planti...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,141 Views
15 Pages

25 July 2022

The relationship between digital technologies and the circular economy, both characterised as disruptive, is attracting increasing attention in company boardrooms, policy and pressure groups and in academic communities. Nevertheless, studies to date...

  • Article
  • Open Access
670 Views
26 Pages

28 April 2026

Traditional relay protection remote maintenance master stations are subject to tight coupling, limited scalability, and cumbersome deployment due to monolithic architectures. This paper proposes a flexible expansion system integrating low-code and co...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Planning, Operation, Control/Protection, and Market of New Power Energy System)
  • Review
  • Open Access
918 Views
24 Pages

Survey of Blockchain Technology Deployment in Electric Power Industry in Indonesia

  • Jauzak Hussaini Windiatmaja,
  • Budi Sudiarto,
  • Muhammad Salman,
  • Riri Fitri Sari and
  • Nugroho Adi Triyono

22 February 2026

This study investigates the potential adoption of blockchain technology within the Indonesian electricity sector to address key challenges in digital infrastructure. Blockchain technology has the potential to address the challenges by facilitating im...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,975 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2024

The use of technology in different aspects of the sports industry is widespread across the world, affecting sports training, performance, judging, and spectating. However, the integration, deployment, and evolution of technologies in the sports indus...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sport and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
5,902 Views
14 Pages

Barriers to Digital Technology Deployment in Value Management Practice

  • Douglas Aghimien,
  • Ntebo Ngcobo,
  • Clinton Aigbavboa,
  • Saurav Dixit and ,
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin,
  • Shivani Kampani and
  • Gurbir Singh Khera
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In the quest to promote constant value for money, value management (VM) has been proposed and adopted within the construction industry of countries across the world. To improve the VM process for a more effective outcome, pervasive digital technologi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methodologies in Building and Construction Management)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,582 Views
8 Pages

5 October 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that to limit warming to 1.5 °C, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is required. Integrated assessment models (IAMS) predict that a land area between the size of Argentina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,855 Views
12 Pages

9 February 2022

Digital technologies, especially information and communication technologies, paved the way for social welfare by providing efficient and effective means for services. In the energy sector, advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs) are essential for pr...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,861 Views
18 Pages

Overview of the Enablers and Barriers for a Wider Deployment of CSP Tower Technology in Europe

  • Fabio Maria Aprà,
  • Sander Smit,
  • Raymond Sterling and
  • Tatiana Loureiro

For years, concentrated solar power (CSP) has been considered an emerging technology that could disrupt the energy production sector. The possibility to store the electricity generated during the sunny operating hours in the form of heat enhances ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,535 Views
9 Pages

Ford Escape PHEV On-Road Results from US DOE’s Technology Acceleration and Deployment Activity

  • Richard “Barney” Carlson,
  • Julie D’Annunzio,
  • Christopher Fortin and
  • Matthew Shirk

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) conducts fleet data collection and analysis activities for advanced technology vehicles, including Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), as part of the US DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA). In 2009,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,727 Views
16 Pages

Bridging Social and Technical Sciences: Introduction of the Societal Embeddedness Level

  • Marit Sprenkeling,
  • Tara Geerdink,
  • Adriaan Slob and
  • Amber Geurts

27 August 2022

The successful and fast development and deployment of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction technologies is a continuing and structural challenge. The deployment of these technologies is slowed down and sometimes even stalled due to societal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in the Utilization of Underground Energy and Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,921 Views
27 Pages

The Motivation for Incorporation of Microgrid Technology in Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Deployment to Enhance Energy Economics

  • Mageswaran Rengasamy,
  • Sivasankar Gangatharan,
  • Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan and
  • Lucian Mihet-Popa

11 December 2020

Deployment of rooftop solar Photovoltaic technology in domestic premises plays a significant role in accomplishing renewable energy transformation. The majority of domestic consumers still do not have a positive perception about adopting rooftop sola...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,280 Views
14 Pages

Research on Optimization Technology of Cross-Regional Synergistic Deployment of Fire Stations Based on Fire Risk

  • Kai Guo,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Shixiang Tian,
  • Juntao Yang and ,
  • Zebiao Jiang and
  • Zhangyin Dai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 November 2022

Regional planning and development of urban agglomerations such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities provide a good opportunity for fire resc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,588 Views
40 Pages

22 August 2014

Uptake of geothermal heat pump technology in the UK and corresponding development of a domestic installation industry has progressed significantly in the last decade. This paper summarizes the growth process and reviews the research that has been spe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geothermal Energy: Delivering on the Global Potential)
  • Discussion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,007 Views
14 Pages

5 July 2012

Innovations that initiate new technology cycles, i.e., radical innovations, bring tremendous value to Society and build for the companies that deploy them sustainable competitive advantages. However, large firms have typically been relatively ineffic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,603 Views
18 Pages

Dissecting the Levelized Cost of Storage—“Adders” for New York City

  • Ahmed Ali A. Mohamed,
  • Mohamed K. Kamaludeen,
  • Francisco Barros and
  • Zacarias Imperial

23 March 2022

The mass deployment of energy storage and distributed energy resources has become a major goal across several states in the United States. However, the viability and reality of such a goal in New York City has been put in question as possible financi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,780 Views
30 Pages

Strategic Siting of Direct Air Capture Facilities in the United States

  • Jason Boerst,
  • Ivonne Pena Cabra,
  • Smriti Sharma,
  • Connie Zaremsky and
  • Arun K. S. Iyengar

30 July 2024

Direct air capture (DAC) systems that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere are garnering considerable attention for their potential role as negative emission technologies in achieving net-zero CO2 emission goals. Common DAC techn...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
154 Citations
42,588 Views
71 Pages

5G Frequency Standardization, Technologies, Channel Models, and Network Deployment: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Yusuf Olayinka Imam-Fulani,
  • Nasir Faruk,
  • Olugbenga A. Sowande,
  • Abubakar Abdulkarim and ,
  • Emmanuel Alozie,
  • Aliyu D. Usman,
  • Kayode S. Adewole,
  • Abdulkarim A. Oloyede,
  • Haruna Chiroma and
  • Lawan S. Taura
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

14 March 2023

The rapid increase in data traffic caused by the proliferation of smart devices has spurred the demand for extremely large-capacity wireless networks. Thus, faster data transmission rates and greater spectral efficiency have become critical requireme...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
853 Views
28 Pages

Self-Healing Asphalt Technologies: A Systematic Review of Comparative Performance, Evaluation Challenges, and Field Deployment

  • Haojie Liu,
  • Jincheng Wei,
  • Zhengchao Zhang,
  • Fangchuan Wang and ,
  • Fan Ye and
  • Wenjian Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 August 2026

Extending the service life of asphalt pavement and cutting maintenance costs are two reasons self-healing technologies have drawn growing attention. Based on 66 studies published between 2011 and 2026, this review covers four engineered self-healing...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
507 Views
29 Pages

A Design-Oriented Pre-Deployment Evaluation Framework for Citizen Adoption of Crowdsourced Non-Emergency Reporting Apps

  • Jinyue Zhang,
  • Victoria Luo,
  • Xinrui Wen,
  • Angela Liu and ,
  • Tian Qiu and
  • Yilin Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Citizen-sourced non-emergency reporting is an increasingly important component of smart-city governance, yet cities often lack systematic methods for evaluating alternative participation designs before deployment. This study develops a design-oriente...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities for People: Innovative Paradigms of Information Behavior and Urban Interaction)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
586 Views
34 Pages

14 August 2026

Construction workers face disproportionate rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries, including falls, heat strain, overexertion, and struck-by incidents, that passive personal protective equipment cannot continuously monitor. Smart garments, which embed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology for Sustainable Construction Management)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
558 Views
38 Pages

Dry Anaerobic Digestion as a Waste-to-Energy Pathway: A Systematic Review of Performance, Scalability, and Deployment Evidence from 2010 to 2025

  • Custodio Matavel,
  • Haripriya Rama,
  • Sasipa Boonyubol,
  • Jonas Massuque and ,
  • Busiswa Ndaba,
  • Siphiwe Lusiba,
  • Buhlebelive Mndzebele,
  • Jeffrey S. Cross,
  • Andisiwe Matu and
  • Ashira Roopnarain
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

4 September 2026

Dry anaerobic digestion (DAD) is increasingly recognized as a promising waste-to-energy pathway for treating high-solids organic wastes. However, the extent to which the contemporary peer-reviewed literature addresses conditions relevant to scalable...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,747 Views
22 Pages

Electric Buses in Malaysia: Policies, Innovations, Technologies and Life Cycle Evaluations

  • Ali Saadon Al-Ogaili,
  • Ali Q. Al-Shetwi,
  • Thanikanti Sudhakar Babu,
  • Yap Hoon and ,
  • Majid A. Abdullah,
  • Ameer Alhasan and
  • Ammar Al-Sharaa
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2021

A large-scale adoption of electric buses (EBs) is a promising solution to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. In the upcoming decades, the development of EB technologies will be initiated worldwide, including in Malaysia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue E-transportation for Future Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,558 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2023

The term “metaverse” came to the fore in 2021 when Facebook rebranded its corporate identity to Meta and signalled its intention to invest at least USD 10 billion in developing the concepts and related products that year. However, there i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
607 Views
26 Pages

12 August 2026

South Africa possesses substantial bioenergy potential derived from agricultural residues, forestry by-products, municipal organic waste, wastewater sludge, and dedicated energy crops, positioning bioenergy as a potentially important contributor to t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Footprints and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Views
33 Pages

Research Capacity, Scientific Collaboration, and Renewable- Energy Deployment Across Europe: A Longitudinal Systems Analysis

  • Maksym Mykhei,
  • Marcela Taušová,
  • Peter Tauš,
  • Juan Pous Cabello and ,
  • Katarína Čulková,
  • Joelle Wahibeh and
  • Peter Balušík
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 October 2026

Europe’s renewable-energy transition depends on interactions among scientific capability, institutions, investment, infrastructure, and resource conditions. This study examines whether national renewable-energy publication-based research activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,648 Views
16 Pages

23 December 2021

The literature is replete with concerns on the environmental impact of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), but rigorous analysis of its improved environmental performance over the past 20 years remains unresolved, as well as the underlying techno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
777 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2026

Palm oil mill effluent (POME), the primary liquid residue from crude palm oil (CPO) extraction, has shifted from industrial wastewater to a valuable feedstock for renewable energy and resource recovery. This review synthesizes recent developments in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomass Derivatives: Green Pathways to Chemicals, Materials, and Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,927 Views
46 Pages

3Cat-8 Mission: A 6-Unit CubeSat for Ionospheric Multisensing and Technology Demonstration Test-Bed

  • Luis Contreras-Benito,
  • Ksenia Osipova,
  • Jeimmy Nataly Buitrago-Leiva,
  • Guillem Gracia-Sola and ,
  • Francesco Coppa,
  • Pau Climent-Salazar,
  • Paula Sopena-Coello,
  • Diego Garcín,
  • Juan Ramos-Castro and
  • Adriano Camps
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2024

This paper presents the mission analysis of 3Cat-8, a 6-Unit CubeSat mission being developed by the UPC NanoSat Lab for ionospheric research. The primary objective of the mission is to monitor the ionospheric scintillation of the aurora, and to perfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,241 Views
42 Pages

Protecting Firefighters from Carcinogenic Exposure: Emerging Tools for PAH Detection and Decontamination

  • Morteza Ghafar-Zadeh,
  • Azadeh Amrollahi Biyouki,
  • Negar Heidari,
  • Niloufar Delfan and ,
  • Parviz Norouzi,
  • Sebastian Magierowski and
  • Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2025

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the occupational cancer risk among firefighters. In response, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and other regulatory bodies have recommended r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrochemical (Bio)Sensors as Promising Analytical Tools in the Analysis of Soils, Plants and Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,010 Views
18 Pages

Decoys Deployment for Missile Interception: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

  • Enver Bildik,
  • Antonios Tsourdos,
  • Adolfo Perrusquía and
  • Gokhan Inalhan

20 August 2024

Recent advances in radar seeker technologies have considerably improved missile precision and efficacy during target interception. This is especially concerning in the arenas of protection and safety, where appropriate countermeasures against enemy m...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,080 Views
21 Pages

13 August 2022

The aim of this study is to identify non-technological critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the different phases of the project life cycle for the deployment of centralized biogas projects; as there is a knowledge gap in this area. This was...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,744 Views
20 Pages

3 May 2025

This study aims to improve the accuracy of fire source detection, the efficiency of path planning, and the precision of firefighting operations in drone swarms during fire emergencies. It proposes an intelligent firefighting technology for drone swar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,492 Views
24 Pages

23 September 2020

Despite the value of QFD (Quality Function Deployment), it has been applied to individual industries, or only to large companies with sufficient QFD-related human resources and sufficient financial resources. Most SMEs, which account for 80% of the w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Competitiveness of SMEs)
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
18,054 Views
51 Pages

Polar AUV Challenges and Applications: A Review

  • Shuangshuang Fan,
  • Neil Bose and
  • Zeming Liang

22 August 2024

This study presents a comprehensive review of the development and progression of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in polar regions, aiming to synthesize past experiences and provide guidance for future advancements and applications. We extensive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,239 Views
16 Pages

Background: This research aims to prioritize the blood supply hub for coping barriers of implementation blockchain (BC) in supply chain management (SCM). Nowadays, blood supply is a crucial matter that plays an essential role in people’s lives....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Logistics Cooperation: Integrated Logistics Services)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,877 Views
40 Pages

14 June 2024

Rapid advancements in the development of smart terminals and infrastructure, coupled with a wide range of applications with complex requirements, are creating traffic demands that current networks may not be able to fully handle. Accordingly, the stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,482 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2022

The maritime industry is trying to utilize new technology for enhancing its competitiveness to overcome today’s severe economic situation, and some interact effects, or potentially emergent effects, will emerge during the introduction of these...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,582 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2025

With global supply chains being reshaped and costs surging, China’s manufacturing sector faces mounting pressure to retain its position as the world’s largest manufacturing center. Meeting this challenge demands the full mobilization of d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Information Communication Technologies in the Digital Era, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,004 Views
28 Pages

4 March 2023

In the large-scale measurement field, deployment planning usually uses the Monte Carlo method for simulation analysis, which has high algorithm complexity. At the same time, traditional station planning is inefficient and unable to calculate overall...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
11,307 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2021

Southeast Asia faces one of the fastest growths in electricity demand in the world, driven by increasing incomes, urbanization and industrialization. Development and deployment of green energy technologies offer a natural conduit to meet the growing...

(This article belongs to the Collection Secure and Sustainable Energy System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,194 Views
20 Pages

Deployment Potential of Concentrating Solar Power Technologies in California

  • Chad Augustine,
  • Sarah Awara,
  • Hank Price and
  • Alexander Zolan

30 September 2025

As states within the United States respond to future grid development goals, there is a growing demand for reliable and resilient nighttime generation that can be addressed by low-cost, long-duration energy storage solutions. This report studies the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,192 Views
33 Pages

Deployable Membrane-Based Energy Technologies: the Ethiopian Prospect

  • Abreham Tesfaye Besha,
  • Misgina Tilahun Tsehaye,
  • Girum Ayalneh Tiruye,
  • Abaynesh Yihdego Gebreyohannes and ,
  • Aymere Awoke and
  • Ramato Ashu Tufa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 October 2020

Membrane-based energy technologies are presently gaining huge interest due to the fundamental engineering and potentially broad range of applications, with economic advantages over some of the competing technologies. Herein, we assess the potential d...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,515 Views
20 Pages

LPWAN Technologies for IoT: Real-World Deployment Performance and Practical Comparison

  • Dmitrijs Orlovs,
  • Artis Rusins,
  • Valters Skrastiņš and
  • Janis Judvaitis

10 December 2025

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have emerged as essential connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), addressing requirements for long range, energy efficient communication that traditional wireless technologies cannot meet. With LP...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,735 Views
14 Pages

Review of Renewable Energy Technologies in Zambian Households: Capacities and Barriers Affecting Successful Deployment

  • Priscilla Kachapulula-Mudenda,
  • Lilias Makashini,
  • Albert Malama and
  • Henry Abanda

Modern renewable energy has been hailed as one of the prerequisites for fostering green growth and the achievement of sustainable development. Despite efforts to promote the use of renewable energy in households, its adoption has remained fairly low,...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)

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