Real-time pricing schemes make the customers to feel the energy price volatility and improve their load profiles. However, these schemes have no significant effect on demand-side uncertainty reduction. In this paper, considering smart grid infrastructures and smart building Energy Management System (EMS), a new real-time pricing scheme is presented to reduce the uncertainty of demand-side. In t...

Over the past ten years cache configurations and their designs have increased in importance, energy efficiency, speed, and in other aspects as well. The goal of this paper is to discuss the energy and performance efficiency of different cache designs throughout the years. A good scale efficiency for a cache could be considered a measure of its latency and energy consumption. To optimize cache e...

Energy conservation is a global issue with great implications. High energy demands and environmental concerns force the transformation of electricity grids into smart grids, towards more rational utilization of energy. Embedded computing and smart metering transform houses into energy-aware environments, allowing residents to make informed choices about electricity. Web technologies are success...

The demand for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has motivated the researchers to obtain energy optimized solutions, because of the constraint on the limited use of energy in these networks. In WSN, apart from energy optimization there are many other areas such as, coverage of the target area and the connectivity of the network for data routing, which attract the attention of researchers for optim...

Induction and synchronous machines have traditionally been the first choice of automotive manufacturers for electric/hybrid vehicles. However, these conventional machines are not able anymore to meet the increasing demands for a higher energy density due to space limitation in cars. Fluxswitching PM (FSPM) machines with their high energy density are very suitable to answer this demand. In this ...

The growth of population, rising fossil fuel prices (limited and decreasing day by day), pollution problem due to use of fossil fuels and increasing electrical demand are important factors that encourage the use of green and renewable energy technologies. Among the different renewable energy technologies, hydro power generation (large and small scale) is the prime choice in terms of contributio...

Electric Vehicle (EV) possesses a significant potential to provide clean energy in vehicular technology. To increase the drive cycle efficiency and the driving range of EVs, which is considered to be the key barrier for its successful commercialization, its energy storage technology needs to be improved. The power requirement of an electric vehicle cannot be satisfied by the battery alone as it...

Renewable Energy based microgrids are being considered to provide electricity for the expanding energy demand in the grid distribution network and grid isolated areas. The technical challenges associated with the operation and controls are immense. Electricity generation by Renewable Energy Sources is of stochastic nature such that there is a demand for regulation of voltage output in order to ...