Nanophotonics-enabled smart windows, buildings and wearables

Smart Buildings and Smart Grids

This report provides an overview of the program, discussions, and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15091 “Smart Buildings and Smart Grids”, which took place from 22–27 February 2015 at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The main goal of the seminar was to provide a forum for leading Energy Informatics (EI) researchers to discuss their recent research on Smart Buildings and Smart Gri...

WeVe: When Smart Wearables Meet Intelligent Vehicles

Nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation for off-grid water purification.

With more than a billion people lacking accessible drinking water, there is a critical need to convert nonpotable sources such as seawater to water suitable for human use. However, energy requirements of desalination plants account for half their operating costs, so alternative, lower energy approaches are equally critical. Membrane distillation (MD) has shown potential due to its low operating...

Smart buildings - Spectrum, IEEE

18 IE E E S P E C T R U M • A u g u st 2 00 3 would instantly seal them off and contact authorities [see “The Road Ahead” on the Web at http://www.spectrum. ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/ aug03/bbroad.html]. For now, though, efforts to make buildings smarter are focusing on cutting costs by streamlining building operations like air conditioning and lighting. Building automation is critical to ...

Smart Control of Residential Buildings