INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 360 I. RECENT HISTORY OF SMART GRID ................................... 363 II. CONSUMER-FACING COMPONENTS AND TWO KEY CHALLENGES ......................................................................... 365 A. Physical Components of Consumer-Facing Smart Grid .... 366 B. Demand side benefits enabled b...

With the world’s science and technology becoming more and more mature and perfect, as well as the environment of supporting policy optimized and application prospects become more extensive, new terms, such as, smart earth, smart city, smart scenic spots, smart hotels, smart services, and smart marketing process have swept the world. The era of smart travel has arrived. However, it must be reali...

Treating homes, offices and commercial buildings as intelligently networked collaborations can contribute to enhancing the efficient use of energy. When smart houses are able to communicate, interact and negotiate with both customers and energy devices in the local grid, the energy consumption can be better adapted to the available energy supply, especially when the proportion of variable renew...

In the smart city domain, many projects and works are generating essential information. Open and efficient sharing of this information can be beneficial for all parties ranging from researchers, engineers or even governments. To our knowledge, there is currently no full-fledged semantic platform which properly models this domain, publishes such information and allows data extraction using a sta...

There is a need for verification of the sustainability potential of an increasing number of smart city initiatives. This paper discuss a set of requirements necessary to consider when developing a methodology intended to evaluate the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions at a city level. A smart city definition is chose...

Srodstvo je konstitutivni element i u znatnoj mjeri određujući čimbenik strukture obitelji. Svojom slojevitom biološkom društvenom sastavnicom na poseban način određuje prirodu svojstva obitelji šireg društva. Srodničke obiteljske odnose obilježava solidarnost, osjećajna bliskost, međusobna ovisnost povjerenje. Ti oblici povezanosti većini situacija imaju zaštitničku funkciju su stabilnosti obi...

Tema je ovoga rada problem naknade štete prouzročene povredom prava na poštovanje obiteljskog života. U prvom dijelu autorice će razmotriti međuodnos nadnacionalnih i nacionalnih pravnih izvora čije kombinirano tumačenje omogućuje prepoznavanje minimalnih standarda zaštite života te dati prikaz različitih životnih situacija koje mogu biti obuhvaćene pojmom „obiteljski život“. Nakon toga nastoja...