This article describes the energy-saving measures in commercial buildings from different perspectives on energy saving cities. In recent years, improving conservation has become an issue of great importance for financial well-being organisations. The study uses define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) Six Sigma approach to identify factors that contribute increases electricity consumption...

Energy usage of large-scale data centers has become a major concern for cloud providers. There has been an active effort in techniques for the minimization of the energy consumed in the data centers. However, most approaches lack the analysis and application of real cloud backend traces. In existing approaches, the variation of cloud workloads and its effect on the performance of the solutions ...

In this paper we leverage an existing general framework for resource usage verification and specialize it for verifying energy consumption specifications of embedded programs. Such specifications can include both lower and upper bounds on energy usage, and they can express intervals within which energy usage is to be certified to be within such bounds. The bounds of the intervals can be given i...

Building energy management (BEM) system can provide cost-effective energy management solutions for smart buildings. However, the success of BEM is contingent on identifying large energy consuming devices, monitoring energy usage, optimal scheduling of flexible appliances, and distinguishing and controlling energy wastage. To this end, this paper discusses the design of Internet of Things (IoT) ...

Abstract: The ICT industry is quickly becoming a very significant consumer of global energy. This energy usage clearly comes at an environmental cost, and recent reports estimate that the industry now contributes 2% of the worlds CO2 emissions, or as much as the aviation industry. A significant part of this energy consumption can be attributed to data-centres, where huge numbers of energyintens...

Anatomic and physiologic data are used to analyze the energy expenditure on different components of excitatory signaling in the grey matter of rodent brain. Action potentials and postsynaptic effects of glutamate are predicted to consume much of the energy (47% and 34%, respectively), with the resting potential consuming a smaller amount (13%), and glutamate recycling using only 3%. Energy usag...

Understanding how occupants manage their energy use in homes and how their behaviour influence household energy consumption in domestic environments has been challenging. There seems to be several major factors contributing towards achieving optimal performance in designing, constructing and maintaining a sustainable home using Building Information Modelling (BIM) based approaches. This study f...

Smart scheduling of energy consuming devices in the domestic sector should factor in clean energy generation potential, electricity tariffs, and occupants’ behaviour (i.e. interactions with their appliances). The paper presents an ANN–GA (Artificial Neural Network / Genetic Algorithm) smart appliance scheduling approach for optimized energy management in the domestic sector. The proposed approa...