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- research-articleNovember 2024
SALINA: Towards Sustainable Live Sonar Analytics in Wild Ecosystems
SenSys '24: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor SystemsPages 68–81https://doi.org/10.1145/3666025.3699323Sonar radar captures visual representations of underwater objects and structures using sound wave reflections, making it essential for exploration, mapping, and continuous surveillance in wild ecosystems. Real-time analysis of sonar data is crucial for ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Intrinsic Explainable Artificial Intelligence Using Trainable Spatial Weights on Numerical Weather Predictions
e-Energy '24: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy SystemsPages 551–559https://doi.org/10.1145/3632775.3662161Addressing the volatility of renewable energies like solar and wind is crucial for the energy system’s stability and optimal utilization of renewable energies. Accurate energy forecasts are important to improve scheduling. Electrical demand and ...
- research-articleDecember 2023
When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments
Management Science (MANS), Volume 69, Issue 12Pages 7633–7650https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.04129Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, with their only access to electricity often limited to operationally expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Fisheye lens design for solar-powered mobile ultrasound devices
Technology and Health Care (TAHC), Volume 30, Issue S1Pages 243–250https://doi.org/10.3233/THC-228023BACKGROUND:Compared to benchtop ultrasound machines, mobile ultrasound machines require portable batteries when acquiring information regarding human tissues during outdoor activities.
OBJECTIVE: ... - research-articleMay 2021
Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources in the Russian Energy System: Opportunities and Threats
DTMIS '20: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference - Digital Transformation on Manufacturing, Infrastructure and ServiceArticle No.: 47, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3446434.3446509The aim of the paper is to evaluate the situation with implementation of renewable energy sources (RES) in the Russian energy system, to highlight the positive and negative influence of this process on consumers and suppliers of traditional electric ...
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- research-articleAugust 2020
Parabolic Trough Collector and Central Receiver Coupled with Fresnel Lens: Experimental Tests
International Journal of Automation and Computing (SPIJAC), Volume 17, Issue 4Pages 572–587https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-019-1220-9AbstractRenewable energies have a high impact on power energy production and reduction of environmental pollution worldwide, so high efforts have been made to improve renewable technologies and research about them. This paper presents the thermal ...
- research-articleMay 2020
Potential of Krabi Province (Thailand) as a Model City of Complete Relying upon Renewable Energy for Power Production
IEEA '20: Proceedings of the 2020 The 9th International Conference on Informatics, Environment, Energy and ApplicationsPages 78–82https://doi.org/10.1145/3386762.3386765This study assessed the potential of renewable energy (RE) resources to find a province in Thailand that could be a model city of complete relying upon RE. Here, Krabi province is a case study due to its abundance in RE resources. Based on the results ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Dynamic economic emission dispatch problem with renewable integration focusing on deficit scenario in India
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC), Volume 15, Issue 1Pages 63–73https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbic.2020.105849Present scenario power grid has increased penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs). RESs are clean sources of energy and power production from them with minimal emission is a national target. Already, increased carbon footprint has put nations into ...
- research-articleApril 2019
Getting more out of energy-harvesting systems: energy management under time-varying utility with PreAct
IPSN '19: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor NetworksPages 109–120https://doi.org/10.1145/3302506.3310393Careful energy management is a prerequisite for long-term, unattended operation of solar-harvesting sensing systems. We observe that in many applications the utility of sensed data varies over time, but current energy-management algorithms do not ...
- research-articleSeptember 2018
A novel solar energy predictor for communicating sensors
IET Communications (CMU2), Volume 12, Issue 17Pages 2145–2149https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5244Solar energy harvesting constitutes an attractive solution to provide energy for communicating objects. The advantage of this energy over other forms of renewable energy is that the available solar power can be predicted with reasonable accuracy, which ...
- abstractMarch 2018
The Screaming Sun: Choreographing Synesthesia
TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionPages 562–566https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173308Digital devices usually contain pre-programmed constraints and behaviours. These behaviours are programmed by the architect of these devices. Analogue devices, on the other hand, are bound by the properties of the components connected to them. ...
- research-articleNovember 2016
Securing solar energy‐harvesting road‐side unit using an embedded cooperative‐hybrid intrusion detection system
IET Information Security (ISE2), Volume 10, Issue 6Pages 386–402https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2014.0456This study deals with the design and implementation of an Embedded Cooperative‐Hybrid Intrusion Detection System (ECHIDS) for a solar energy harvested Road Side Unit(RSU). In order to offer a high level of defense against the various attacks and to cope ...
- articleJanuary 2016
Energy management in a hybrid PV/wind/battery system using a type-1 fuzzy logic computer algorithm
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Volume 4, Issue 3/4Pages 229–244https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIEI.2016.080516This paper presents a computer algorithm based on fuzzy logic control to manage the flow of energy in a stand-alone PV/wind/battery hybrid system. The system is composed of 16 photovoltaic PV solar panels, one wind turbine and two batteries. The solar ...
- tutorialOctober 2015
Earth Computing
WebMedia '15: Proceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the WebPage 13https://doi.org/10.1145/2820426.2822356Under the banner of "Earth Computing," the walkingtools.net laboratory (UNIFESP/UCSD) is exploring how data extracted from landscapes (using tools such as Geographic Information Systems) may return to those landscapes in a literal way: through ...
- research-articleOctober 2015
Design and development of a solar dryer for microalgae retrieval an EPS@ISEP 2013 spring project
- Alexandra Brygider,
- Bartlomiej Marciniak,
- Benedicte Verbraeken,
- Paul Ahlskog,
- Sven Petersen,
- Benedita Malheiro,
- Cristina Ribeiro,
- Manuel F. Silva,
- Nídia Caetano,
- Paulo Ferreira,
- Pedro Guedes
TEEM '15: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing MulticulturalityPages 529–536https://doi.org/10.1145/2808580.2808661Currently excessive fossil fuel consumption has become a serious problem. People are searching for new solutions of energy production and there are several options to obtain alternative sources of energy without further devastating the already destroyed ...
- ArticleApril 2015
Hybrid Stochastic Short-Term Models for Wind and Solar Energy Trajectories
GREENTECH '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies ConferencePages 191–198https://doi.org/10.1109/GREENTECH.2015.28In the presence of renewable energy resources in the power system, most grid management applications make use of hourly or even minutely models for solar irradiance and wind speed. However, studies on the grid impact and controllability of these ...
- abstractJanuary 2015
Solar Pink Pong: Street Video Game
TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionPages 417–418https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2690877Solar Pink Pong is an art installation that translates a video game into the physical space of the street. In this installation, a computer controlled color mirror reflects sunlight to the asphalt in the form of a neon pink spot. Through motion sensing ...
- ArticleApril 2013
Stirling Dish Generator Using a Focal Point Internal to the Dish
GREENTECH '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Green Technologies ConferencePages 211–214https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenTech.2013.39Green power generation needs to include the manufacturing process as well as the generation itself. For a system to be truly environmentally responsible it should be a renewable system which requires no caustic chemicals or similarly damaging processes ...
- ArticleDecember 2012
Successful deployment of a Wireless Sensor Network for precision agriculture in Malawi
NESEA '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application (NESEA)Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1109/NESEA.2012.6474009This paper demonstrates how an Irrigation Management System (IMS) can practically be implemented by successfully deploying a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Specifically, the paper describes an IMS which was set up in Manja Township, City of Blantyre ...
- ArticleOctober 2012
Powering the Common Service Centers to Empower Rural Communities
GHTC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology ConferencePages 315–319https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2012.48Reliable access to modern energy services is key for development. India, alongside its growing energy demand, also faces multiple challenges in providing energy services to its masses. Innovative approaches that bundle appropriate technology and ...