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Advanced Hyperspectral Data Analysis Software (AVHYAS) plugin is a python3 based quantum GIS (QGIS) plugin designed to process and analyse hyperspectral (Hx) images. It is developed to guarantee full usage of present and future Hx airborne…
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As the automotive industry moves towards vehicle electrification, designing and optimizing thermal management systems (TMSs) for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) has become a critical focus in recent years. The dependence of battery…
Urban-scale quantification of window views can inform housing selection and valuation, landscape management, and urban planning. However, window views are numerous in high-rise, high-density urban areas and current automatic assessments of…
We present an algorithm that prepares thermal Gibbs states of one dimensional quantum systems on a quantum computer without any memory overhead, and in a time significantly shorter than other known alternatives. Specifically, the time…
This paper describes a benchmark consisting of a set of synthetic measurements relative to an office environment simulated with the software IDA-ICE. The simulated environment reproduces a laboratory at the KTH-EES Smart Building, equipped…
Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures aim to reduce costly data transfers by performing arithmetic and logic operations in memory and hence relieve the pressure due to the memory wall. However, determining whether a given workload can…
Despite various efforts, decarbonizing the heating sector remains a significant challenge. To tackle it by smart planning, the availability of highly resolved heating demand data is key. Several existing models provide heating demand only…
Existing home energy management systems conceptualize occupants as passive recipients of energy information and control, which limits their ability to effectively support informed decision-making and sustained engagement. This paper…
This study presents a conceptual framework and a prototype assessment for Large Language Model (LLM)-based Building Energy Management System (BEMS) AI agents to facilitate context-aware energy management in smart buildings through natural…
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Accelerating applications through the design of hardware accelerators can significantly enhance system performance and energy efficiency. Despite advances, such as high-level synthesis (HLS), designing accelerators for complex applications…
The electricity grid is crucial to our lives. House- holds and institutions count on it. In recent years, the sources of energy have become less and less available and they are driving the price of electricity higher and higher. It has been…
In this paper, we study a problem of controlling cooling facilities and computational equipments for energy-efficient operations of data centers. Although a plethora of approaches have been proposed in previous literatures, there is a lack…
Efficiency, comfort, and convenience are three major aspects in the design of control systems for residential Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) units. In this paper we propose an optimization-based algorithm for HVAC control…
The fact that a proper HVAC control strategy can reduce the energy consumption of a building by up to 45% has driven significant research in demand-based HVAC control. This paper presents a novel framework for modeling and analysis of…
The increasing integration of renewable energy into the power grid has highlighted the critical importance of demand-side flexibility. Among flexible loads, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are particularly…
To resolve the rising temperatures in 3.5D-ICs, a thermal-aware design flow becomes increasingly crucial, necessitating an accurate and efficient thermal simulation tool. However, previous tools struggle to handle the unique heterogeneous…
Quantum thermodynamics often deals with the dynamics of small quantum machines interfacing with a large and complex environment. Virtual qubits, collisional models and reset master equations have become highly useful tools for predicting…