Greater distributed production of energy from renewable resources such as solar radiation has increased fluctuations of power on the electrical grid. Current infrastructure has limited ability to handle continued increases in fluctuations. Predicting weather patterns in areas containing a high penetration of solar photovoltaic installations can allow time to switch to energy storage and inform ...

Prior to the widespread adoption of electrical and electronic controls, buildings often used pneumatic control systems. Large and powerful compressors drove 3psi to 15psi pneumatic signals throughout a plant and these pneumatic lines connected to pneumatically controlled valves and pneumatically controlling valves in order to drive proportional controls and actuators throughout the building, al...

We describe motion swarm widgets for video interaction with art installations and video games. This mechanism for interaction is a byproduct of an ongoing collaboration among the authors involving both arts and science. The inspiration started with a desire to build installations with en masse audience interaction, and evolved towards a interaction mechanism that is robust in crowded and comple...

Media architecture has emerged as a relevant field of study within HCI since its inception at the turn of the century. While media architecture has the potential to radically affect the social space into which it is introduced, much research in the field was initially carried out through experimental installations in public spaces, often with higher emphasis on examining the properties of this ...

Software installation provides an attractive entry vector for malware: since installations are performed with administrator privileges, malware can easily get the enhanced level of access needed to install backdoors, spyware, rootkits, or “bot” software, and to hide these installations from users. Previous research has been focused mainly on securing the execution phase of untrusted software, w...

This paper addresses a major challenge in the residential solar industry: automated design of cost-effective, efficient rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations. Optimal designs choose system components, locations, and wiring to minimize cost while meeting desired energy output and complying with all physical and legal constraints. We present a novel lower bound for the energy produced by a PV i...

The findings of a study combined wind-photovoltaic installation for use in the Najaf governorate’s energy sector are presented this article. suggested hybrid system is serving community customers Iraq, as well country's sector. Iraqi consumers constantly short electricity, and proposed approach combining solar installations to generate will assist alleviate problem. In studies, authors show tot...

Subsea oil and gas (O&G) exploration demands significantly high power to supply the electrical loads for extraction pumping of gas. The energy demand is usually met by fossil fuel combustion-based platform generation, which releases a substantial volume greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide (CO2) methane into atmosphere. severity resulting adverse environmental impact has increased focu...

Our objective was to investigate whether there might be excess cancer mortality in the vicinity of Spanish installations for the production of cement, lime, plaster, and magnesium oxide, according to different categories of industrial activity. An ecologic study was designed to examine municipal mortality due to 33 types of cancer (period 1997-2006) in Spain. Population exposure to pollution wa...

In mixed reality installations we have to integrate a variety of technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, animated virtual agents and robotic agents. In this paper we describe some of our explorations with a game engine as the driving software for mixed reality installations.