Smart buildings and autonomous vehicles are expected to see rapid growth and adoption in the coming decades. Americans spend over 90% of their lives in buildings or automobiles, meaning that 90% of their lives could be spent interfacing with intelligent environments. EMBR Labs has developed EMBR Wave, a wearable thermoelectric system, for introducing thermal sensation as a connected mode of int...

In this paper the orchestration of wearable sensors with human computation is explored to provide map metadata for blind navigation. Technological navigation aids for blind must provide accurate information about the environment and select the best path to reach a chosen destination. Urban barriers represent dangers for the blind users. The dynamism of smart cities promotes a constant change of...

The response time of the smart electrical vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is the key index of the system performance. The traffic between the smart EV charging station and the control center dominates the response time of the smart charging stations. To accelerate the response of the smart EV charging station, there is a need for a technology that collects the information locally and relay...

Smart spaces augment people’s lives with ubiquitous computing technology that provides increased communications, awareness, and functionality. However, smart spaces pose many technical challenges in device interaction/integration, user/environment perception, system interoperability and scalability, as well as security/privacy/trust. In this paper, we first examine some key issues in smart spac...

The Internet of Things aims to connect networked information systems and real-world business processes. Technologies, such as barcodes, radio transponders (RFID) and wireless sensor networks, which are directly attached to physical items and assets transform objects into Smart Items. These Smart Items deliver the data to realize the accurate real-time representation of ’things’ within the infor...

Purpose After a long period of international research and development, BIM has become mature. Many tools support the BIM process, or at least they claim. BIM not only offers opportunities for the Architectural Engineering and Construction industry, but also for the client. In this paper we don’t focus on the professional client, but on the client of a building assignment that act as the end-use...

Smart grid concept is introduced to modify the power grid by utilizing new information and communication technology. Smart grid needs live power consumption monitoring to provide required services and for this issue, bi-directional communication is essential. Security and privacy are the most important requirements that should be provided in the communication. Because of the complex design of s...

The exponential increase in carbon-dioxide resulting Global Warming would make the planet earth to become inhabitable in many parts of the world with ensuing mass starvation. The rise of digital technology all over the world fundamentally have changed the lives of humans. The emerging technology of the Internet of Things, IoT, machine learning, data mining, biotechnology, biometric, and deep le...

The U.S takes a major role in the area of Smart Appliance Home Control Network technology for decades. The most popular solutions for this technology at this time include wired and wireless. Today, the benefit of remove control system in the house has been enjoyed. As the fast growth of wireless technology, a convergence of sensor devices and home appliances, wireless system is now a movement t...