Abstract The growing concerns over the adverse effects of buildings on environment and need to achieve users’ thermal, visual, acoustic, spatial indoor environmental air quality comfort have given rise demand for energy efficient buildings. This paper relied a review 36 articles published between 2007 2019 identify categorise efficiency design, planning construction applicable office data were ...

PROPOSAL Microsystems such as laptop computers, tablets, smart-phones, power electronics equipment, radio-frequency devices, and solid-state lighting are becoming an increasing part of our daily lives. The collective energy consumption by these devices, as well as the associated back-end equipment and facilities continues to grow rapidly and is a major concern for their sustained growth. Reduci...

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a promising technology to monitor the state of large buildings and provide the necessary data for continuous optimization of energy consumption, for instance, related to thermal comfort or lighting control. For these applications, currently available off-the-shelf WSN devices are still too expensive for deployment in large quantities, require considerable amou...

The number of pedestrians walking the streets or gathered in public spaces is a valuable piece of information for shop owners, city governments, event organizers and many others. However, automatic counting that takes place day and night is challenging due to changing lighting conditions and the complexity of scenes with many people occluding one another. To address these challenges, this paper...