This book contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS 2015) which was organized and sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held in cooperation with Association for Computing Machinery â SIGCAS, IEEE TCSC Technical Area in Green Computing, IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications & Computing, Friends of the Supergrid, Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing, Lisbon City Council, INTELI and Lisboa E-Nova. This conference was also technically co-sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society.
We hope that these proceedings, which include topics like â Smart Citiesâ , â Energy-Aware Systems and Technologiesâ , â Sustainable Computing and Communicationsâ , are interesting to a global audience of engineers, scientists and business people interested in the research topics of SMARTGREENS.
We believe the proceedings published demonstrate new and innovative solutions, and highlight challenging technical problems in each field.
SMARTGREENS 2015 received 73 paper submissions from all continents. From these, 15 papers were published and presented as full papers, 40 were accepted as short. These numbers, leading to a full-paper acceptance ratio of 20,6% and an oral paper acceptance ratio of 75%, shows the intention of preserving a high quality forum for the next editions of this conference. Moreover, the conference also featured a number of keynote lectures delivered by internationally known experts, namely Álvaro Oliveira (Alfamicro, Portugal), Paolo Traverso (Center for Information Technology - IRST (FBK-ICT), Italy), Rudolf Giffinger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Andrés Monzón (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) and Alberto Broggi (VisLab - Universita' di Parma, Italy) thus contributing to increase the overall quality of the conference and to provide a deeper understanding of the conference interest fields.
The number and high quality of the papers received imposed difficult choices in the review process. Each paper was reviewed by at least, two reviewers. Based on those reviews, papers that adequately balanced quality, originality and relevance to the conference themes were selected.
The proceedings of SMARTGREENS will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP, EI and Scopus. A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of the Springer's Computing journal and Elsevierâ s Sustainable Cities and Society journal. All presented papers will be available at the SCITEPRESS digital library.
To recognize the best submissions and the best student contributions, awards based on the best combined marks of paper reviewing, as assessed by the Program Committee, and the quality of the presentation, as evaluated by session chairs at the conference venue, were conferred at the closing session of the conference.
As a final point, we would like to express our thanks, first of all, to the authors of the technical papers, whose work and dedication made possible to put together a program that we believe is very exciting and of high technical quality. Next, we would like to thank all the members of the program committee and auxiliary reviewers, who helped us with their expertise and time. We would also like to thank the invited speakers for their invaluable contribution and for sharing their vision in their talks. Special thanks should be addressed to the INSTICC Steering Committee whose invaluable work made this event possible and finally, a word of appreciation for the hard work of the secretariat: organizing a conference of this level is a task that can only be achieved by the collaborative effort of a dedicated and highly capable team.
Smart City Technologies and Architectures
The main goal of smart cities is to improve the traditional services that are provided to the citizens and also create new and more challenging ones. This vision aims not only to citizensâ prosperity, but also to economic progress and sustainability of ...
In the Heart of Intelligent Buildings
In a changing world, with more and more people living in urban areas and more and more energy needs, managing energy consumption becomes essential. This papers focuses on energy management in tertiary buildings, and more precisely on behaviour and daily ...
Renewable Energy-aware Data Centre Operations for Smart Cities
Data centres are important players in smart cities both as IT service providers and as energy consumers. Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources into the local power grid is one challenge in future smart cities aiming at an IT based low carbon ...
Guideline for Crowd Evacuation Simulation
This paper introduces a way to verify a microscopic pedestrian simulator. The microscopic pedestrian simulator
tested in this paper is developed by our group, which can be used to guide the crowd evacuation and
prepare respond plans for emergent ...
Faster, Cheaper, Cleaner
This work aims at systematically characterizing urban mobility. There are several possible approaches to the
problem but this work focus on reducing commuting times and emissions using the current infrastructures and
without increasing the cost to the ...
A Data Model for Energy Decision Support Systems for Smart Cities
Integrating Energy Management Systems is a necessary task in order to be able to offer a range of services for citizens and public authorities. This task requires integration at the data level in order to expose data coming from different systems in a ...
Social Acceptance and Its Role for Planning Technology Infrastructure
It will be argued that there are major social gaps in the planning of complex energy infrastructure for public spaces: the first "gap" concerns the question if social acceptance can be reliably measured. The second â gapâ refers to the lack of an ...
Electricity and Heat Sector Coupling for Domestic Energy Systems
A strong focus on reducing carbon emissions as well as the improvements in computing and control techniques for energy systems make it relevant to design energy systems in an integrated way. Coupling various energy sectors can offer many benefits in the ...
Methodology for Energy Efficiency Assessment in the Transport Sector for Smart Cities
To measure the impact of transport projects in smart cities can be expensive and time-consuming. One challenge in measuring the effect of these projects is that impacts are poorly quantified or are not always immediately tangible. Due to transport ...
Definition of Key Performance Indicators for Energy Efficient Assessment in the Transport Sector
The transport sector is constantly growing as well as its complexity and energy consumption. One way to reduce the involvement and the volume of data to evaluate and monitor the energy efficiency of the sector for cities authorities is by using Key ...
Parameters Affecting the Energy Performance of the Transport Sector in Smart Cities
The energy requirements of citiesâ inhabitants have grown during the last decade. Recent studies justify the necessity of reducing the energy consumption/emissions in cities. The present paper gives an overview of the factors affecting the energy ...
Energy Book for Buildings
This paper addresses a bottom-up approach for energy management in buildings. Future smart cities will need
smart citizens, thus developing an interface to connect humans to their energy usage becomes a necessity.
The goal is to give a touch of energy ...
A Probabilistic Approach to Parking
Urban parking is an important issue in all modern countries. Technological advances, with in-car sensors
and always connected smartphones have already paved the way to an ICT solution for this problem. However,
every attempt - including that of such a ...
Towards a Sustainable Smart Cities Integration in Teaching and Research
The urban population growth and rapid urbanization are the key issues many of the European cities are currently dealing with. Vienna, as the one of the leading cities, embodies the smart cities goals and values. The new Smart City Wien Framework ...
Multi-resource Optimized Smart Management of Urban Energy Infrastructures for Improving Smart City Energy Efficiency
This paper presents an innovative conceptual, technological and business framework for an energy-centred multi-resource optimized hub aimed at smart city infrastructure improved integration and improved energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprints. ...
Optimization of Coil Parameters for a Nonlinear Two Degree-of-Freedom (2DOF) Velocity-amplified Electromagnetic Vibrational Energy Harvester
A 2DOF velocity amplified electromagnetic vibrational energy harvester is analyzed. The system consists of
two masses, one larger than the other, oscillating relative to each other in response to external excitation. The
large mass is designed with a ...
Bottom-up Analysis of the Solar Photovoltaic Potential for a City in the Netherlands
This paper presents a working model to estimate the solar photovoltaic potential using high- resolution LiDAR data and Geographic Information Systems. This bottom-up approach method has been selected to arrive at the potential as this gives a better ...
Central Model Predictive Control of a Group of Domestic Heat Pumps
In this paper we investigate optimal control of a group of heat pumps. Each heat pump provides space heating and domestic hot water to a single household. Besides a heat pump, each house has a buffer for domestic hot water and a floor heating system for ...
DeLi2P
Smart grids coulpled with effiicient demand side management (DSM) is an important step for greener cities of the future. DSM has the potential to significantly improve smart grid operations by reducing the peak to average ratio. Current DSM schemes are ...
Comfort-constrained Demand Flexibility Management for Building Aggregations using a Decentralized Approach
In the smart grid and smart city context, the energy end-user plays an active role in the operation of the power
system. The rapid penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
requires a higher degree of ...
Voltage Control with Local Decisions in Low Voltage Distribution Grids with DER Penetration
This paper presents two droop-based voltage control algorithms that try to achieve maximum generation by Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), while keeping the voltage levels within the operating limits. One of the algorithms is based on gradual ...
Seasonally Aware Routing for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy-aware routing schemes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) often employ artificial energy assumptions,
e.g., equal initial energy reserves for all nodes. Instead, we consider the case of realistic energy reserves
collected via thermoelectric energy ...
A Sensitivity Study of PMU-based Fault Detection on Smart Grid
- Richard Barella,
- Duc Nguyen,
- Ryan Winter,
- Kuei-Ti Lu,
- Scott Wallace,
- Xinghui Zhao,
- Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez
Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are widely used in power transmission systems to provide synchronized
measurements for the purpose of fault detection. However, how to efficiently deploy those devices across a
power grid â so that a comprehensive ...
Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics of Active Components in Intelligent Electric Power Systems
The research is aimed at developing algorithms for the construction of automated systems to control active components of the electrical network. The construction of automated systems intended for the control of electric power systems requires high-speed ...
An Empirical Study of Real-time Feedback and Dynamic Pricing Effects on Electric Power Consumption
The management of electric power demand is a key element in the creation of smart-energy communities. We are engaged in a field experiment with the participation of 51 households on Nushima Island, one of the remote islands of Japan, to study the ...
High Frequency Non-intrusive Electric Device Detection and Diagnosis
- Roman Jonetzko,
- Matthias Detzler,
- Klaus-Uwe Gollmer,
- Achim Guldner,
- Marcel Huber,
- Rainer Michels,
- Stefan Naumann
The number of electronic devices in households as well as in industrial workplaces is continuously growing because
of progress in automation. Identifying unusual operating behavior, detecting device failures in advance,
and recognizing energy saving ...
Price based Unit Commitment with Wind Generation and Market Clearing Price Variations
Bidding plays an important role for Gencos (Generation Companies) participating in competitive electricity markets with the objective of maximizing profit. The characteristics of generators and price uncertainty need to be considered while formulating ...
Power Capping of CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Systems using Power and Performance Models
Recent high performance computing (HPC) systems and supercomputers are built under strict power budgets
and the limitation will be even severer. Thus power control is becoming more important, especially on the
systems with accelerators such as GPUs, ...
Fine-tuning Genetic Algorithm for Photovoltaic-Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Hybrid System Optimization
European cities have established programs integrating the energy, transport and ICT sectors in order to deliver more efficient services for their populations. The paper tackles the study of feasibility to implement fuzzy logic control into an energetic ...
Analyzing Multi-microgrid with Stochastic Uncertainties Including Optimal PV Allocation
This paper presents the effects of Photovoltaic (PV) location on losses of the distribution system. The optimal location of PV is determined by using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) implemented in MATLAB-OpenDSS environment. IEEE 34-node test feeder ...
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