Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization

Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Author: Gontar, Zbigniew H.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1522539972

Information and communication technologies play an essential role in the effectiveness and efficiency of smart city processes. Recognizing the role of process analysis in energy usage and how it can be enhanced is essential to improving city sustainability. Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization provides emerging research on the development of information technology and communication systems in smart cities and smart grids. While highlighting topics such as process mining, innovation management, and sustainability optimization, this publication explores technology development and the mobilization of different environments in smart cities. This book is an important resource for graduate students, researchers, academics, engineers, and government officials seeking current research on how process analysis in energy usage is manifested and how it can be enhanced.

Research Anthology on Smart Grid and Microgrid Development

Research Anthology on Smart Grid and Microgrid Development
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1480
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1668436671

Smart grid and microgrid technology are growing exponentially as they are adopted throughout the world. These new technologies have revolutionized the way electricity is produced, delivered, and consumed, and offer a plethora of benefits as well as the potential for further growth. It is critical to examine the current stage of smart grid and microgrid development as well as the direction they are headed as they continue to expand in order to ensure that cost-effective, reliable, and efficient systems are put in place. The Research Anthology on Smart Grid and Microgrid Development is an all-encompassing reference source of the latest innovations and trends within smart grid and microgrid development. Detailing benefits, challenges, and opportunities, it is a crucial resource to fully understand the current opportunities that smart grids and microgrids present around the world. Covering a wide range of topics such as traditional grids, future smart grids, electrical distribution systems, and microgrid integration, it is ideal for engineers, policymakers, systems developers, technologists, researchers, government officials, academicians, environmental groups, regulators, utilities specialists, industry professionals, and students.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Planning and Operation of Smart Grids

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Planning and Operation of Smart Grids
Author: Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2022-03-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030945227

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to play a significant role in smart grid planning and operation, especially in solving its real-time problems, as it is fast, adaptive, robust, and less dependent on the system’s accurate model and parameters. This collection covers research advancements in the application of AI in the planning and operation of smart grids. A global group of researchers and scholars present innovative approaches to AI-based smart grid planning and operation, cover the theoretical concepts and experimental results of the application of AI-based techniques, and apply these techniques to deal with smart grid issues. Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Planning and Operation of Smart Grids is an ideal resource for researchers on the theory and application of AI, practicing engineers working in electrical power engineering, and students in advanced graduate-level courses.

Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: McKenna, H. Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-06-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 179983851X

Throughout history, humanity has sought the betterment of its communities. In the 21st century, humanity has technology on its side in the process of improving its cities. Smart cities make their improvements by gathering real-world data in real time. Still, there are many complexities that many do not catch—they are invisible. It is important to understand how people make sense at the urban level and in extra-urban spaces of the combined complexities of invisibilities and visibilities in their environments, interactions, and infrastructures enabled through their own enhanced awareness together with aware technologies that are often embedded, pervasive, and ambient. This book probes the visible and invisible dimensions of emerging understandings of smart cities and regions in the context of more aware people interacting with each other and through more aware and pervasive technologies. Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities contributes to the research literature for urban theoretical spaces, methodologies, and applications for smart and responsive cities; the evolving of urban theory and methods for 21st century cities and urbanities; and the formulation of a conceptual framework for associated methodologies and theoretical spaces. This work explores the relationships between variables using a case study approach combined with an explanatory correlational design. It is based on an urban research study conducted from mid-2015 to mid-2020 that spanned multiple countries across three continents. The book is split into four sections: introduction to the concepts of visible and invisible, frameworks for understanding the interplay of the two concepts, associated and evolving theory and methods, and extending current research as opportunities in smart city environments and regions. Covering topics including human geography, smart cities, and urban planning, this book is essential for urban planners, designers, city officials, community agencies, business managers and owners, academicians, researchers, and students, including those who work across multiple domains such as architecture, environmental design, human-computer interaction, human geography, information technology, sociology, and affective computing.

Global Food Politics and Approaches to Sustainable Consumption: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Global Food Politics and Approaches to Sustainable Consumption: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Amadi, Luke
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-08-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1799801276

Food production and consumption processes are largely governed via control mechanisms that affect food accessibility and environmental efficiency. Food resource marginalization, inequality, and deleterious consumption urgently require new governance and developmental systems that will provide food security and create consumption patterns that protect the natural environment and food resources. Global Food Politics and Approaches to Sustainable Consumption: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that discusses the challenges and solutions of food security and consumption control. Food politics can be linked to persistent challenges of inequitable access, food resource inefficiency, and control and consumption, which form part of the local development realities that can address global sustainable development. While highlighting topics such as rural agriculture, capitalism, and food chain management, this publication is ideally designed for policymakers, sustainable developers, politicians, ecologists, environmentalists, corporate executives, farmers, and academicians seeking current research on the policies and modalities of food efficiency and equality.

Developing Eco-Cities Through Policy, Planning, and Innovation: Can It Really Work?

Developing Eco-Cities Through Policy, Planning, and Innovation: Can It Really Work?
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799804437

The worldwide consumption of resources is causing environmental damage at a rate that cannot be sustained. Apart from the resulting environmental and health problems, this trend could threaten economic growth due to rapidly decreasing natural resources and costly solutions. The public sector has a responsibility to stimulate the marketplace in favor of the provision of more resource-efficient and less polluting goods, services, and works in order to support environmental and wider sustainable development objectives. Developing Eco-Cities Through Policy, Planning, and Innovation: Can It Really Work? examines the economic, political, social, and environmental objectives essential to the planning and support of future communities. Highlighting a range of topics such as environmental sustainability, waste management, and green cities, this publication is an ideal reference source for environmental engineers, environmentalists, city development planners, urban planners, technology developers, policymakers, industrialists, academicians, and researchers interested in solving environmental issues.

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021
Author: John R. Littlewood
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981166269X

Chapter “A Multi-functional Design Approach to Deal with New Urban Challenges” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering

Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering
Author: Olga Arsenyeva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031468775

This book offers a comprehensive review of smart technologies and provides perspectives on their applications in urban engineering. It covers a wide range of applications, from manufacturing engineering and transport logistics to information and computation technologies, providing readers with fresh ideas for future research and collaborations. The book showcases selected papers from the International Conference on Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering (STUE-2023), hosted by O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The conference, held on June 8–10, 2023, aimed to address the complex rehabilitation of areas damaged by military conflicts and natural disasters. The contributions within this book offer a wealth of valuable information, fostering a meaningful exchange of experiences among scientists in the field of urban engineering. By delving into this book, readers explore innovative approaches to tackle urban challenges, gain insights from experts, and contribute to the advancement of smart technologies for the betterment of cities worldwide.

Blockchain Applications for Secure IoT Frameworks: Technologies Shaping the Future

Blockchain Applications for Secure IoT Frameworks: Technologies Shaping the Future
Author: Sudhir K. Sharma
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1681088630

This reference presents information about different facets of IoT and blockchain systems that have been recently proposed for practical situations. Chapters provide knowledge about how these technologies are applied in functions related to trust management, identity management, security threats, access control and privacy. Key Features: - Introduces the reader to fundamental concepts of IoT and blockchain technology - reports advances in the field of IoT, ubiquitous computing and blockchain computing - includes the applications of different frameworks - explains the role of blockchains in improving IT security - provides examples of smart grids, data transmission models, digital business platforms, agronomics and big data solutions - Includes references for further reading Blockchain Applications for Secure IoT Frameworks Technologies Shaping the Future is a handy reference for information technology professionals and students who want updated information about applications of IoT and blockchains in secure operational and business processes.