An SCS consists of an open architecture, standardized media and layout, standard connection interfaces, adherence to national and international standards, and total system design and installation. Other than the structured cabling system, voice, data, video, and building management systems (BMS) have nothing in common except similar transmission characteristics (analog or digital data signals) ...

Due to the raising awareness of sustainability, energy efficient buildings have received significant attention by the academia and industry. Current practice of energy monitoring and control mainly relies on wired sensors, which are expensive and difficult to maintain. Moreover, systems servicing buildings do not “talk to each other”, which creates silos of information resulting in inefficient ...

Structural health monitoring through field instrumentation has been carried out successfully on many highway bridges to monitor the short-term and long-term performance of structures. Properly designed and strategically placed instruments can help collect valuable data regarding the condition, the stress and strain, deflection, temperature gradients, and the time-dependent properties, such as c...

The recent trend is to transform existing buildings into smart, green, or passive by adopting sustainable technologies achieve increased life comfort and production efficiency through reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, operating costs. Thus, can be rehabilitated in order have the lowest possible consumption. One of highest demands on consumption heating system used during winter mon...

Centralized architectures, like the cloud model, have their advantages, but they also come with drawbacks, such as higher upfront costs, longer deployment times, and a probability of catastrophic failure. Building Management Systems (BMS) is an application that can adopt Internet Things (IoT) designs services. However, implementing IoT in highly modular environment various moving parts interdep...

Careful maintenance is essential to ensure the long-term serviceability of bridges. It is therefore necessary to establish a database which has a large capacity for storage of time-series data including structural properties at construction completion, inspection records, and repair and maintenance records, and which utilizes state-of-the-art information and telecommunication technologies to al...

To ease the side effects triggered by cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) for acute leukemia treatment, a novel magnetic targeting anti-tumor drug delivery system was constructed through bacterial magnetosomes (BMs) from Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 combined with Ara-C by crosslinking of genipin (GP). The results showed that Ara-C could be bonded onto the membrane surface of BMs effectively throu...