{"title":"Data Compression Strategies for Use in Advanced Metering Infrastructure Networks","authors":"Chih-Wei Hsu, S. Hsieh","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94974","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Things technology has advanced rapidly. For example, numerous sensors can be deployed in a city to collect a variety of data, and such data can be used to monitor the city’s situation. A possible application of such data is smart metering implemented by power suppliers for their consumers; smart metering involves installing a multiplicity of smart meters that, in conjunction with data centers, form a smart grid. Because a smart gird must collect and send data automatically, the establishment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) constitutes the primary step to establishing a smart grid. However, problems remain in smart metering: data traffic from smart meters flows rapidly at a huge volume, resulting in bandwidth bottlenecks. Thus, this chapter proposes some data compression technologies as well as a novel scheme for reducing the communication data load in AMI architectures.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131481144","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":"Energy Management and Optimal Power Scheduling in a Smart Building under Uncertainty","authors":"Dimitrios Thomas, E. Kotsakis","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94989","url":null,"abstract":"In this Chapter, we consider a microgrid with a certain number of distributed energy resources (DER) components connected to an office building (in a university campus) provided with electricity by a utility company. We develop the initial version of the energy management system which is responsible for the optimal energy scheduling of the microgrid’s distributed energy resources. These resources include a photovoltaic (PV) installation, a Storage Energy System (ESS), a small Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit, and a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) used for work-related trips. The mobility behavior of the EVs fleet is modeled considering deterministic realizations of the probabilistic distributions used for the arrival/departure, and the time EVs remain parked. To investigate the impact of renewable generation and load unpredictability on the energy management system (EMS) operation, PV production and electric load are modeled under uncertainty using actual smart meters data for the scenarios formulation. We also assume that each DER component, through an EMS, can communicate and control the power exchange from and towards this component and that, two way communication with the utility company can be reached through aggregators using advanced metering equipment. We also consider a simplified thermal model that provides a specific level of thermal comfort to the building’s occupants, by meeting the predicted heating load. The energy produced by the DERs can be sold back to the grid by the microgrid manager and/or it can be stored for future utilization.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128839793","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":"Smart Buildings: A Model Approach for Institutional Buildings","authors":"Kumar Avinash Chandra","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94943","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Buildings should be seen from a multi-industrial standpoint, involving the right combination of architecture, structure, information technology, automation, environment and energy, services and facility management such as to minimize life-cycle costs, maximize comfort and adapt properly to cultural stimuli. Intelligent architecture concerns with intelligent design to meet cultural and contextual requirements, with proper use of IT and smart technology, as well as with optimal building exploitation and cost-effective maintenance over its life-time. This might also include intelligent and responsive facades. Facility management looks for the best financial management for maintenance, rebuild and renovation, for the best space utilization, for the best daily operational services and for maximizing user satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128276071","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":"Application of Advanced Framework Technology in Smart Cities to Improve Resource Utilization","authors":"Kai-Chun Chu, Kuo-Chi Chang, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Fu-Hsiang Chang, Yuh-Chung Lin, Tsui-Lien Hsu","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94553","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the application technology and demand are growth; there have been millions of solutions for user communication in smart cities. However, the quality of the autonomy of handheld devices and the information exchange of applications are functions of requesting services or participating in communications. Therefore, it is very difficult and tedious to implement resource management and control in such an environment. This study here proposes distributed cyber-physical systems (CPS) for agent-based middleware framework (AMF) using to achieve technology, thereby improving the reliability of environmental communication in smart cities. The technical solution has the characteristics of avoiding the problem of data source interruption because of the proxy technology of the linear calculation model. The aforementioned agents are independent and autonomous of each other in terms of providing seamless resource sharing and response scheduling, and have nothing to do with communication time and request queries. In this study, the architecture mainly uses the best linear calculation model to classify overlapping agents, and then allocates non-overlapping resources, and finally analyzes the overall architecture operation performance by responding to processed queries, storage utilization and resource usage, pause time and response.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121098952","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":"Orchestrating Smart Cities, New Disruptive Business Models and Informal Enterprises","authors":"B. Mkalama, B. Ndemo","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94075","url":null,"abstract":"As the fourth industrial revolutions technologies intensify, cities are becoming smarter, new business models are emerging and informal enterprises are formalizing by default. Research demonstrates that the future of our world is decided by the quality of its future cities. As cities invest in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies to make life easier and solve many of the problems we face today, employment opportunities expand and citizens enjoy better lifestyle. This chapter will examine how the concept of smart cities is disrupting existing business models and creating new ones that have positively impacting Africa’s informal enterprise sector. The chapter leverages abundance theory to explain the emerging phenomenon in the nexus between smart cities, new business models and informal enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that indeed the concept of smart cities is indeed facilitating new business models that are formalizing the informal sector.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116153862","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":"T-S Fuzzy Observers to Design Actuator Fault-Tolerant Control for Automotive Vehicle Lateral Dynamics","authors":"Naoufal El Youssfi, R. E. Bachtiri","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.92582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92582","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a fault-tolerant control (FTC) procedure for the automotive vehicle lateral dynamics (AVLD) described by the Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. This approach focuses on actuator faults, which requires knowledge of the system parameters and the faults that are occurring. For this reason, T-S fuzzy observers are suitable for simultaneously estimating system states and actuator faults. The proposed control makes it possible to maintain vehicle stability even in the presence of faults. The design of fuzzy observers and fuzzy controllers is mainly based on the one-step method of Lyapunov, which is provided in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The simulation results clearly illustrate the effectiveness of the applied controller strategy to maintain vehicle stability.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126886036","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":"Standard Elevator Information Schema: Its Origins, Features and Example Applications","authors":"J. Beebe, Ahmad Hammoudeh","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.92552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92552","url":null,"abstract":"A generational change is taking place in building transportation systems as manufacturers and maintenance companies begin to integrate their products and services with the technologies of smart buildings and smart cities. Frequently this integration relies on the Internet of Things and cloud services. The diverse and heterogeneous nature of such collaborations requires a common shared semantic understanding of the complex and dense information that may be generated by transportation systems in buildings. The Standard Elevator Information Schema (SEIS) provides this in a format which is both machine and human readable. The role of the schema is to provide the ‘vocabulary’ for these collaborations. At the same time the schema specifies the properties, relationships and validation rules that define the information model, which could form the foundation upon which all elements of building transportation control and monitoring functions are constructed. SEIS is published under the Collective Commons licence and is free to download and incorporate into any product with the objective of reaching the broadest audience. This chapter discusses the origins and features of SEIS and provides a varied set of example applications. Consideration is also given to the issues of cyber security and data protection.","PeriodicalId":192504,"journal":{"name":"Smart Cities [Working Title]","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125130152","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}