C. D. Bakker, T. V. Voort, Juliette van Duijhoven, A. Rosemann
{"title":"Assessing the energy use of occupancy-based lighting control strategies in open-plan offices","authors":"C. D. Bakker, T. V. Voort, Juliette van Duijhoven, A. Rosemann","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000139","url":null,"abstract":"Occupancy-based lighting control can be applied at several resolution levels. To aid lighting designers in choosing the appropriate solution for a specific open-plan office case, this paper presents a simulation tool which enables calculating the lighting energy use for the different control strategies. By using a stochastic modelling approach and input parameters as users' function type, the office's policy and special absences, the model could reflect the actual occupancy behaviour in the office at hand. The results of the model were validated with occupancy data from several studies and found to be similar enough to conclude that the model can be trusted and applied. A convergence analysis showed that 1000 iterations are required to produce these reliable results. This paper discusses the development of the tool, its performance as well as the deviations found between its output and measurements on the average occupancy of the different occupancy types. Further research on occupancy patterns of different job function types would improve the model as well as extend its applicability.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125097448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A matrix-based approach for supervising and controlling timed Discrete Event System","authors":"F. Basile, P. Chiacchio, J. Coppola","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000069","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a matrix-based discrete event model to simulate, design and implement a model-based control algorithm, including model predictive control. The proposed formalism extends a previous one adding timing information. This feature allows the evaluation of performance indexes making the model useful in many industrial automation systems in presence of real time control specifications.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129216589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Riccardo Petrolo, V. Loscrí, N. Mitton, Elisa A. Herrmann
{"title":"Adaptive filtering as a service for smart city applications","authors":"Riccardo Petrolo, V. Loscrí, N. Mitton, Elisa A. Herrmann","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000147","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cities are a key factor in the consumption of materials and resources. As populations grow and resources become scarcer, the efficient usage of these limited goods becomes more important. Building on and integrating with a huge amount of data, the cities of the future are becoming a realization today. There are millions of sensors in place already, monitoring various things in metropolises. In the near future, these sensors will multiply until they can monitor everything from streetlights and trashcans to road conditions and energy consumption. In this context, effective strategies or solutions for refining data sets can play a key role. Based on these premises, we propose intelligent and adaptive filtering mechanisms as a service (FIlAAS) integrated in the VITAL-OS middleware and will show their feasibility and their effectiveness in the smart city context.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124567742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sliding mode control to stabilization of the coupled PDE-PDE system with boundary input disturbance","authors":"Manna Li, W. Mao","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000078","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the stability analysis of the coupled partial differential equation(PDE)-PDE system with boundary input disturbance. The sliding mode control(SMC) and backstepping control(BC) approach are combined to cope with the boundary disturbance, which is supposed to be bounded. An infinite-dimensional sliding surface is constructed by Lyapunov method and the exponentially stability is proved in spite of accompanying with the boundary input disturbance. The variable structure boundary controller is designed to stabilize the unstable system. At last the availability of this approach is illustrated by some numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"75 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125996237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zygfryd Wieszok, N. Aouf, O. Kechagias-Stamatis, Lounis Chermak
{"title":"Stixel based scene understanding for autonomous vehicles","authors":"Zygfryd Wieszok, N. Aouf, O. Kechagias-Stamatis, Lounis Chermak","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000065","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a stereo vision based obstacle detection and scene segmentation algorithm appropriate for autonomous vehicles. Our algorithm is based on an innovative extension of the Stixel world, which neglects computing a disparity map. Ground plane and stixel distance estimation is improved by exploiting an online learned color model. Furthermore, the stixel height estimation is leveraged by an innovative joined membership scheme based on color and disparity information. Stixels are then used as an input for the semantic scene segmentation providing scene understanding, which can be further used as a comprehensive middle level representation for high-level object detectors.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132711374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. P. Fanti, A. M. Mangini, M. Roccotelli, W. Ukovich
{"title":"Optimal energy management integrating renewable energy, energy storage systems and electric vehicles","authors":"M. P. Fanti, A. M. Mangini, M. Roccotelli, W. Ukovich","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of the energy management of cooperative district microgrids: the goal is maximizing the utilization of energy bought at the day-ahead energy market by avoiding the real-time purchase of additional energy. To this purpose the District Energy Management System (DEMS) controls the real-time energy consumption of the district and minimizes additional real-time energy requests. A Linear Programming problem is formulated and solved by the DEMS by optimally integrating renewable energy sources, storage systems and electric vehicles considered energy storages in the district microgrids. A case study enlightens and compares the benefits of the presented strategy.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"2006 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129114702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group Role Assignment with Agents' Preferences","authors":"Haibin Zhu, Y. Zhu","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000160","url":null,"abstract":"Using the Role-Based Collaboration (RBC) methodology that advocates collectivism and the Environments - Classes, Agents, Roles, Groups, and Objects (E-CARGO) model, this paper formalizes the problem of considering individual preferences in a group with the support of Group Role Assignment (GRA); analyzes the impact of agents' preferences on group performance through simulations. The contributions of this work include: 1) formalization of the proposed problem, i.e. GRA with Agents' Preferences (GRAAP); 2) a practical solution to the problem, i.e., GRA with Integrated Agents' Preferences (GRAIAP); 3) benefit verification through simulations; and 4) a conclusion that can be applied to industries requiring collaborative effort.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121110781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum cost deployment of wireless sensors with wake-up radios","authors":"Jian Wang, Xiumei Wu, Xiaolin Xu, Xiaoming Hu","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000130","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks have found numerous applications in realistic environments. Typically, such networks are desirable to operate in several years without human maintenance. Yet main radio components on the conventional wireless sensors quickly consume most of the limited energy in the sensors, and thus considerably constrain the sensor lifetime. Recently, many low-power wake-up radios are designed and engineered in the industry. They can reduce energy consumption of the wireless sensors. This paper investigates the minimum cost deployment problem for wireless sensors with wake-up radios in practical deployments, where conventional sensors, independent wake-up devices, sensors with conventional and wake-up radios are all taken into account. Our investigation opens a promising way for wireless sensor networks reaching much longer lifetime in the minimum financial cost.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127283904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Á. Bayod-Rújula, A. Burgio, J. A. Domínguez-Navarro, L. Mendicino, D. Menniti, A. Pinnarelli, N. Sorrentino, J. M. Yusta-Loyo
{"title":"Prosumers in the regulatory framework of two EU members: Italy and Spain","authors":"Á. Bayod-Rújula, A. Burgio, J. A. Domínguez-Navarro, L. Mendicino, D. Menniti, A. Pinnarelli, N. Sorrentino, J. M. Yusta-Loyo","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000062","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a typical customer with a PV plant and a battery storage by the perspective of two EU members: Italy and Spain. The authors calculate the electricity bill of the considered customer in accordance with the respective legislative and regulatory frameworks. This calculation is a preparatory and preliminary activity for finding relevant differences, if any, that should not exist between EU members. Given the 15-min load profile of a 3kW–3700kWh/yr domestic user, numerical experiments return that the ratio, between the electricity bills in Italy and Spain, relevantly changes with respect the adoption of local generator and local storage.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123806464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Chang, Chandan Mostafiz, Zhibin Sun, Wei Gao, Chi-Farn Chen
{"title":"Developing a prototype satellite-based cyber-physical system for smart wastewater treatment","authors":"N. Chang, Chandan Mostafiz, Zhibin Sun, Wei Gao, Chi-Farn Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000115","url":null,"abstract":"Frequent adjustment of operating strategies in a wastewater treatment plant as a situational response to water quality in the water body for effluent disposal has been facing a grand opportunity. This opportunity is emanated from transitioning the sporadic water quality monitoring in the water body for effluent disposal to the satellite-based situation-awareness, self-adaptive and fast response system. To achieve this goal, the cyber-physical system (CPS) is developed in this study to respond to the needs of smart wastewater infrastructure management. This prototype CPS is able to gather the massive volumes of water quality information via advanced remote sensing technologies to timely detect water pollution, exchange information through cyber interfaces, provide early-warning awareness with the aid of different feature extraction models, and support actionable intelligence for tuning the effluent disposal and recycling strategies for wastewater treatment. Integrated feature extraction techniques using extreme learning machine algorithms within the CPS architecture is emphasized in this study for smart wastewater infrastructure management through the interactions between the treatment facilities and satellites.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126970178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}