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The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various applications including agriculture, but it still faces challenges in data collection and understanding. This paper proposes a real-time framework with three additional semantic layers…

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Over the Eight decades, computing paradigms have shifted from large, centralized systems to compact, distributed architectures, leading to the rise of the Distributed Computing Continuum (DCC). In this model, multiple layers such as cloud,…

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Digital twin (DT) offers significant opportunities for enhancing facility management (FM) in campus environments. However, existing research often focuses narrowly on isolated domains, such as point-cloud geometry or energy analytics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Thyda Siv

The vision encompassing Smart and Software-defined Buildings (SSDB) is becoming more and more popular and its implementation is now more accessible due to the widespread adoption of the IoT infrastructure. Some of the most important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Manuel Mazzara , Ilya Afanasyev , Smruti R. Sarangi , Salvatore Distefano , Vivek Kumar

Public educational systems operate thousands of buildings with vastly different characteristics in terms of size, age, location, construction, thermal behavior and user communities. Their strategic planning and sustainable operation is an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Na Zhu , Aris Anagnostopoulos , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis

In response to the European Commission's aim of cutting carbon emissions by 2050, there is a growing need for cutting-edge solutions to promote low-carbon energy consumption in public infrastructures. This paper introduces a Proof of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Renan Lima Baima , Iván Abellán Álvarez , Ivan Pavić , Emanuela Podda

Smart grids technologies are enablers of new business models for domestic consumers with local flexibility (generation, loads, storage) and where access to data is a key requirement in the value stream. However, legislation on personal data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Ricardo J. Bessa , David Rua , Cláudia Abreu , Paulo Machado , José R. Andrade , Rui Pinto , Carla Gonçalves , Marisa Reis

Enhancing the spatio-temporal observability of residential loads is crucial for achieving secure and efficient operations in distribution systems with increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Shanny Lin , Hao Zhu

The Internet of Things adoption in the manufacturing industry allows enterprises to monitor their electrical power consumption in real time and at machine level. In this paper, we follow up on such emerging opportunities for data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Sören Henning , Wilhelm Hasselbring , Heinz Burmester , Armin Möbius , Maik Wojcieszak

The holistic management of a building requires data from heterogeneous sources such as building management systems (BMS), Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor networks, and building information models. Data interoperability is a key component to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Filippo Vittori , Chuan Fu Tan , Anna Laura Pisello , Adrian Chong , Clayton Miller

Data quality is a significant issue for any application that requests for analytics to support decision making. It becomes very important when we focus on Internet of Things (IoT) where numerous devices can interact to exchange and process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Anna Karanika , Panagiotis Oikonomou , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

As our physical environments become ever-more connected, instrumented and automated, it can be increasingly difficult for users to understand what is happening within them and why. This warrants attention; with the pervasive and physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chris Norval , Jatinder Singh

High-quality data is a prerequisite for training reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI) models in the energy domain. In district heating networks, sensor and metering data often suffer from noise, missing values, and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kristoffer Christensen , Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen , Zheng Grace Ma

The growth of ubiquitous sensor networks at an accelerating pace cuts across many areas of modern day life. They enable measuring, inferring, understanding and acting upon a wide variety of indicators, in fields ranging from agriculture to…

While traditional AI and data-driven facilities management approaches have improved building operational efficiency, they remain constrained by centralized organizational structures that are vulnerable to cyber attacks, limited contextual…

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The construction industry increasingly relies on visual data to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications for site monitoring. High-quality, domain-specific datasets, comprising images, videos, and point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ruoxin Xiong , Yanyu Wang , Jiannan Cai , Kaijian Liu , Yuansheng Zhu , Pingbo Tang , Nora El-Gohary

Data management can be a complex challenge in fields such as bioinformatics and health sciences, which continuously generate extensive heterogeneous datasets. In the context of collaborative global health initiatives, secure storage and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Danilo Silva , Monika Moir , Cheryl Baxter , Tulio de Oliveira , Joicymara Xavier , Marcel Dunaiski

As the Data Science field continues to mature, and we collect more data, the demand to store and analyze them will continue to increase. This increase in data availability and demand for analytics will put a strain on data centers and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Justin Gould

The past decade has seen the advent of numerous building energy efficiency visualization and simulation systems; however, most of them rely on theoretical thermal models to suggest building structural design for new constructions and…

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The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions a world-wide, interconnected network of smart physical entities. These physical entities generate a large amount of data in operation and as the IoT gains momentum in terms of deployment, the combined…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Eugene Siow , Thanassis Tiropanis , Wendy Hall