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2025

El objetivo del presente proyecto es definir la Infraestructura (ICT) necesaria para el inmueble descrito, garantizando la correcta recepción y distribución de las señales de televisión terrestre (TDT).

2025

Buildings in general are large contributors of global greenhouse emissions and environmental deterioration. Climate adaptation of existing and new buildings is crucial in reducing their impact on climate change. In order to achieve this, efficient performance evaluation and operational management of buildings is required for future proofing buildings and other built environment assets. In particular, owner occupied buildings, including educational buildings offer unique opportunities. To meet legislative requirements and offer sustainable built environments, universities are now striving to be 'Green Star Education' enterprises or of an equivalent standard. This paper reports on the performance evaluation of two Green Star rated educational buildings in Victoria, Australia providing a best practice model based on the learnings from the respective case study buildings. Evaluation of the building case studies were undertaken using a mixed method research approach. Post occupan...

2025

The purpose of this paper is to assess the health and wellbeing implications of working in a deep plan office building in a temperate climate and illustrate how office design can add to or detract from productivity. The authors have carried out post occupancy evaluation surveys on employees before and after the move from a naturally ventilated, shallow plan office to a deep plan, air-conditioned office. The workforce and workload remained constant, which enabled true comparison between building types. The public sector employer specified an environmentally friendly building that incorporates health and wellbeing factors. It is anticipated that in future, deep plan buildings will become increasing expensive to service and maintain. In this study there was no discernable increase in productivity and a significant number of correspondents preferred the shallow plan old building.

2025, Proceedings of Pathways to Change: An …

Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decision-making and performance as it influences cognitive processes [1] [2] [3]. Despite this body of research there is insufficient theory within... more

2025, Conference on Virtual Worlds and Simulation (VWSim …

Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decisionmaking and performance as it influences cognitive processes [see e.g., Damasio, 1994; Goleman, 1995;. Despite this body of research the role and function of affect is not generally recognized by the disciplines that address the broad issues of understanding complex systems and complex behavior, especially in the presence of learning. The innovative models and theories that have been proposed to facilitate advancement in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) tend to focus exclusively on cognitive factors. Consequently, the resulting systems are often unable to adapt to real-world situations in which affective factors play a significant role. We propose several new models for framing a dialogue leading to new insights and innovations that incorporate theories of affect into the design of (affect-sensitive) cognitive machines.

2025

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação)No âmbito de Tecnologia Assistiva, o presente trabalho visa o desenvolvimento de um protótipo de dispositivo de controle de ambiente por comando ocular. Buscando uma forma de autonomia e praticidade à pessoas portadoras de deficiência, para que assim este protótipo de dispositivo possa ser uma maneira fácil de acionar dispositivos de uma residência, como uma televisão, uma lâmpada e, também, o acionamento de um sinal sonoro para que o cuidador da pessoa com limitação possa socorrê-lo. Desta forma, este trabalho de conclusão de curso é inserido na área de automação e na área de Tecnologia Assistiva. Este trabalho utilizará um sistema de infravermelho para que possa acionar os dispositivos remotamente e um sensor de rastreamento ocular, para que o usuário (pessoa portadora de alguma deficiência) possa controlar os comandos dos equipamentos com o direcionamento do olhar na tela de interface

2025

Resumo: cada vez mais a tecnologia invade os edifícios sob variadas formas, com as mais diversas funções e objectivos, mas sempre com o propósito de melhorar a qualidade de vida do utilizador. neste trabalho aborda-se esta temática do... more

2025

La simulation de systemes d'energie est un outil important pour la conception, le developpement et l'evaluation de nouvelles architectures et des controles grille dans le concept de reseau intelligent pour les dernieres decennies. Cet outil a evolue pour repondre aux questions proposees par les chercheurs et les ingenieurs dans les applications de l'industrie, et pour offrant des differentes alternatives pour couvrir plusieurs scenarios realistes.Aujourd'hui, en raison des progres recents dans le materiel informatique, la Simulation numerique en temps reel (DRTS) est utilisee pour concevoir des systemes de puissance, afin de soutenir les decisions prises dans les systemes de gestion de l'energie automatises (SME) et de reduire le delai de commercialisation de produits, entre des autres applications.Les simulations de reseaux electriques peuvent etre classees dans les categories suivantes: (1) la simulation analogique (2) hors simulation de ligne (3) de simulation...

2025

Simulation of power systems is an important tool for designing, developing and assessment of new grid architectures and controls within the smart grid concept for the last decades. This tool has evolved for answering the questions proposed by academic researchers and engineers in industry applications; providing different alternatives for covering several realistic scenarios. Nowadays, due to the recent advances in computing hardware, Digital Real-Time Simulation (DRTS) is used to design power systems, to support decisions made in automated Energy Management Systems (EMS) and to reduce the Time to Market of products, among other applications.Power system simulations can be classified in the following categories: (1) Analog simulation (2) off line simulation (3) Fully digital simulation (4) Fast simulation (5) Controller Hardware-In-the-Loop (CHIL) simulation and (6) Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) simulation. The latest 3 are focused on Real-Time Hardware-In-the-Loop (RT-HIL) simu...

2025, Journal of Al-Azhar University Engineering Sector

Due to the privacy of the five Egyptian oases (Dakhla, Kharga, Farafra, Bahariya, and Siwa Oasis) because of its distance from urban communities in the Nile Valley, so it has preserved much of its cultural and architectural heritage for decades, which is evident in building materials and openings patterns used in small rural villages, which represent The smallest urban nucleus, and the focus of governorate attention in its currently development projects, but there are some openings patterns and new building materials that are extraneous to this environment, so the research aims to assess the environmental impact of traditional and contemporary building materials and openings patterns used in these villages, due to their great impact as a "building envelop" on the thermal comfort, energy saving and healthy environment inside the building. The research adopts the comparative analytical method, to compare between the behavior of traditional and contemporary building materials and openings patterns in these villages, through field survey for 55 houses in 11 villages in the oasis, and analyze it using the "Design Builder" program to evaluate the environmental impact, to come up with specific design recommendations and determinants for suitable wall material, thickness and opening criteria to achieve the best possible building environmental performance, and to find out what this great architectural heritage can offer us using modern technologies and simulation programs.
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نظرا لما تتمتع به الواحات المصرية الخمس (الداخلة والخارجة والفرافرة والواحات البحرية وواحة سيوة) من خصوصية بحكم بعدها عن الحضر في وادي النيل، لذا فقد احتفظت بالكثير من موروثها الحضاري والمعماري لعقود طويلة والذي يظهر جليا في أنماط ومواد البناء المستخدمة في القرى الريفية الصغيرة والتي تمثل النواة العمرانية الأصغر، ومحور اهتمام للدولة حاليا في مشاريعها للتطوير، إلا أن هناك بعض أنماط الفتحات ومواد البناء المستحدثة الدخيلة على هذه البيئة، لذا يهدف البحث لتقييم الأثر البيئي لأنماط الفتحات ومواد البناء التراثية والمستحدثة المستخدمة بهذه القرى، حيث تشكل الغلاف الخارجي للمبنى، ويتبع البحث المنهج التحليلي المقارن، حيث يقوم بمقارنة خصائص مواد البناء المستخدمة في هذه القرى سواء كانت تراثية، محلية، مستحدثة، وأنماط الفتحات المستخدمة، ومن خلال مسح ميداني لعدد (55) منزل في (11) قرية ريفية بالواحات، وباستخدام برنامج “Design Builder” يقوم بتحليل وتقييم الأثر البيئي لها كغلاف خارجي للمبنى، ونظرا لتأثيرها البالغ على الراحة الحرارية وتوفير الطاقة وتوفير بيئة صحية داخل المبنى، للخروج بتوصيات ومحددات تصميمية محددة لاستخدام المواد والحلول التراثية أو المعاصرة لتحقيق أفضل أداء بيئي ممكن للمبنى، وللوقوف على ما يمكن أن يقدمه لنا هذا الموروث المعماري الضخم باستخدام التقنيات وبرامج المحاكاة الحديثة.

2025, Instituto AVM

À alguns anos Tecnologia da Informação deixou de ser sinônimo de um
computador e algumas planilhas eletrônicas ou editores de texto, passando a ser uma trama de aplicativos, redes de comunicações e acima de tudo um parceiro dos negócios, ou seja, deixou de ser uma mera ferramenta para tornar-se um apoio a tomadas de decisões, um parceiro no avanço tecnológico industrial e comercial, cada vez mais engajado com as metas e objetivos da empresa e agindo ativamente nas decisões e resultados. Com isso redes de comunicações para sistemas industriais passaram a apresentar e requerer níveis de seguranças melhorados, mais abrangentes e elaborados, afim de que pragas virtuais (principalmente) de diferentes tipos não comprometam o alinhamento entre a TI e o Negócio.
Objetivando um apoio a esta problemática, este trabalho apresenta um breve
estudo sobre as vertentes das redes de comunicações industriais, as principais vulnerabilidades e/ou malwares que podem atingir os sistemas de Automação industrias (e as redes componentes destes sistemas) e um plano de ação e continuidade às redes de comunicações industriais.

2025

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has increased domestic violence. People must spend most of their time indoors, forcing them to use technologies like smartphones. Many individuals have gone through periods of unemployment, economic hardship, and faithdamaging family ties. People had no choice but to engage with the virtual environment in these circumstances. In Dhaka, the rooftop was used only as a playground and outdoor recreation location during this incident. Interactive architectural installations modeled after residential neighborhoods may significantly encourage a sense of community belonging, particularly for young and elderly people. Residents may use their rooftops and connect with collaborative architecture that uses all of their senses to communicate with people. This kind of interactivity could be used to combat the pandemic melancholy by mounting interactive architecture on the roof. This article discusses a potential interactive architecture that may be built on the rooftop and foster community spirit to aid the impoverished community during or after a pandemic. The initial objective is to deliver a more comprehensive and up-to-date review of the literature, along with some recommendations for an interactive design that could be used going forward to encourage neighborhood activities and allow the depressed population to engage in a home community. Expanding upon this analysis, the study makes the case for a method that intentionally takes into account the societal, psychological, and environmental aspects of existence.

2025, American Journal of Innovation in Science and Engineering (AJISE)

2025, 5th International Congress on Ambiances

Architecture is an assemblage that has a sensational aspect beyond concrete. Architecture goes beyond concrete structures; it involves the interplay of material, color, sound, technical systems, lighting, users, and designers to create a captivating atmosphere. All these elements are essential in creating the atmosphere and ambiance of any place. However, generating an ambient project demands substantial effort due to its extensive aspects. This paper speculates the theatre as an assemblage for the architectural ambiance-making way. Considering that architecture has various possibilities for creating a built environment, the spatial organisation could be understood through the ambiance. The design resembles Deleuze's abstract machine, as its system is adaptable to changes in personae within its concrete structure. This paper explores the concept of creating ambiance, using Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque as a case study. Examining architectural assemblage offers an alternative and effective approach to understanding the creation of ambiance in design.

2025, Intelligent Buildings International

2025

As pesquisas relacionadas aos ambientes inteligentes tem enfatizado os aspectos tecnicos associados ao controle de dispositivos e a interligacao desses dispositivos em rede, com sistemas de controles domesticos envolvendo questoes relativas ao gerenciamento de dispositivos eletroeletronicos no ambiente domestico, iniciando com a aquisicao e o tratamento de dados provenientes de sensores, ate a modificacao do estado dos atuadores. Esse processo envolve o estudo das caracteristicas desses transdutores, o desenvolvimento de protocolos e mecanismos de transmissao de dados, a criacao de metodos de analise e gerenciamento das informacoes, a criacao de interfaces, etc. Para que isso seja possivel, e necessario prover meios que fornecam a interoperabilidade entre os eletrodomesticos e as aplicacoes de controle. Este trabalho propoe um sistema gateway baseado em servicos para monitoramento e controle de eletrodomesticos em uma rede de comunicacao sem fio. O gateway proposto fornece uma camad...

2024

When it comes to designing and constructing commercial spaces, durability, functionality, and aesthetic appeal are paramount. Commercial windows, doors, and skylights are not just components of a building’s exterior; they are essential to creating an environment that is safe, energy-efficient, and welcoming. In today’s competitive business landscape, selecting the right windows, doors, and skylights can significantly impact the overall success of a commercial property, whether it’s a retail store, office building, warehouse, or hospitality establishment.

2024

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2024, İÇLİS

The future of the built environment is predictable. Nowadays people are more experienced to use new technologies in their daily life and the technology industry is growing very fast. Developments in IT and new technologies are known as a key influence on the future of buildings. Developments of technology may make changes in space, facilities, user, materials, and construction. When a building is adaptable to the new changes, it delays the urge to build a new building and decrease building demolitions and obsolesce. Moreover, these processes are not sustainable and make environmental risks. There is a lack of literature over discovering adaptable potentials of an existing building that were not designed adaptable, especially when technology developments are changing the functions and spaces. This study aims to analyze the adaptability of residential buildings to find adaptive potentials which are useful for future technological upgrades. The predicted future of the built environment, which is known as smart/intelligent building, is considered as the origin of change. This study reviews recent academic literature related to building adaptability, intelligent and smart buildings. Furthermore, features of smart/intelligent buildings are categorized and recent residential projects in Famagusta, North Cyprus are analyzed according to the features as the case study.

2024

This paper presents a novel device called Sense Diary for intelligent buildings. To introduce the new device and its applied system, a brief review of sensor-based systems applied in buildings has been conducted, which is based on current literature and products. The aim of this review is to understand current research and development situation of sensor-based systems that have been developed for all kinds of buildings and their systems across the world, and to further identify specific research tasks for an UK government EPSRC funded project focusing on innovative solutions of building façade systems. For acquiring the knowledge of sensor-based systems for buildings, some target information sources have been subjectively chosen. According to the literature and products review, several key research tasks of a Sense Diary System have been identified and discussed. It is concluded that the proposed Sense Diary and its applied system have advantages in balancing well-being and energy efficiency in buildings.

2024, CASS -ARC

For interior design applications, straw board panels provide a sustainable alternative by making use of agricultural
waste like straw. This research explores the benefits straw board panels have on the environment when used indoors.
These panels lessen agricultural waste and cut down on carbon emissions by reusing straw, a plentiful and renewable
material. Straw board panels are also more environmentally friendly because their production requires less water and
energy than those of conventional materials like plywood or particleboard.
Straw board panels also have good thermal and acoustic qualities, which improve interior comfort and lessen the need
for separate heating and cooling systems. Because of their capacity for insulation, they support sustainable construction
practices by increasing energy efficiency. Straw board panels' lightweight design also makes them easy to transport
and install, which lowers expenses and emissions associated with construction.
Straw board panels provide interior designers with an adaptable canvas in terms of aesthetics and design versatility.
They are easily finished and modified to fit a variety of tastes and styles, from rustic chic to modern minimalist. Straw
board panels can also be utilized for a variety of purposes, including furniture, ceiling panels, and wall cladding, which
gives interior spaces a hint of sustainability. In general, using straw board panels encourages sustainability in a number
of areas, such as the social, economic, and environmental domains. Designers and architects may support sustainable
agricultural and rural livelihoods while also fostering healthier and more resilient building environments by including
these eco-friendly materials into their interior design projects.

2024

Características técnicas de los sistemas de captación 3.1.1.2. Características de los elementos activos 3.1.1.3. Características de los elementos pasivos 3.1.2. Telefonía disponible al público. 3.1.2.1. Características de los cables 3.1.2.2. Características de las regletas 3.1.3. Infraestructuras. 3.1.3.1. Características de las arquetas 3.1.3.2. Características de las canalizaciones 3.1.3.3. Condicionantes a tener en cuenta en la distribución interior de los RIT. Instalación y ubicación de los diferentes equipos 3.

2024, Heating Piping Air Conditioning

2024, Buildings

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

2024, Intelligent Buildings International

The principal goal of this article is to make clear the multiple pathways through which the built environment is having a potential effect on the occupants' physical and psychological health, well-being and performance. Reviewing the previous research literature on built environment and public health, high-quality environment design is an investment as occupants are healthier, staff retention rates are higher, productivity is higher and sustainability ideals are more likely to be met. Regarding the healthy effect of built environment, a conceptual model of healthy building and a framework to research the association between built environment and health is presented and discussed. In spite of a little progress in this area by now, some genuine challenges still lie ahead: (1) the necessity of dealing with the possible health consequence of built environment; (2) the need to extend the concept and perception of green buildings towards healthy buildings and develop a framework for assessing health, well-being and productivity of various scenarios in buildings; (3) the construction and design processes needed to have a primary aim directed towards making buildings healthy for working and living in. Holistic cognition about the problem, new research method and information on scientific validation, comparative testing or data collection and analysis is needed in the subsequent research.

2024

Сержио Маффиоллети-аспирант кафедры информатики университета в Фри-бурге (Швейцария). Родился 11 сентября 1971 года в г.Бергамо (Италия). Закон-чил факультет информатики Миланского университета в 1998 году, дипломная работа посвящена интеллектуальным агентам. Участвовал в научно-исследовательском проекте Европейского Союза Larflast (Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology). Организатор студенческой лаборатории по парал-лельным процессам и искусственному интеллекту. Разработал курс «Язык про-граммирования Java для Интернет-приложений» для учителей средних школ. Сфера научных интересов: архитектура программного обеспечения, информаци-онные агенты, Интернет и другие гетерогенные информационные системы. Вездесущие компьютерные технологии это образец взаимодействия между людьми и ком-пьютерами. Их цель дать возможность пользоваться услугами компьютерных систем там, где это-го пожелает пользователь. В статье представлены принципы разработки основы инфраструктуры для применения ве...

2024, Civil Engineering and Architecture

The experiences of nature that have been
present for billions of years guide scientists and designers
in their research, covering different topics such as form,
function, aesthetic, production of durable materials, light
and practical structures, variety, optimization,
conservation of natural systems, bio-diversity, reduction of
energy losses, etc. From that perspective, nature offers
ideas to produce adaptive, highly durable, and smart
materials and serves as a raw material source for
researchers who learn from nature. This study questioned
how bio-inspired designing could be used as an instrument
for interdisciplinary research in the triangle of architecture,
materials science, and biology, and it discussed the outputs
of a workshop held with the students undergoing
postgraduate education in architecture. Utilizing “the
problem-based process”, which is one of the bio-inspired
designing processes, this study reviewed the
material-related thoughts of architects in line with
architects' limited biology knowledge. Furthermore, it
examined the gains of the bio-inspired design approach
through the pre-post-test and problem-based designing of
the self-assessment questionnaire. In conclusion, it is safe
to state that nature, as a role model, can present significant
information in the search for solutions within
interdisciplinary studies in this century when the
importance of sustainability is more apparent than ever.

2024, Chemical Engineering Research & Design

and Davies, Gareth (2015) Carbon brainprint-an estimate of the intellectual contribution of research institutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 96. pp. 74-81.

2024, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

2024, Sakunthal idisooriya

Abstract
This comprehensive investigation digs into the perplexing tapestry of burnout
amongst Sri Lankan fashion designers, uncovering a sophisticated understanding of
the demanding settings and causes that contribute to this persistent problem. The
research seeks to shed light on the supremacy of burnout, untangle its causes, and
map skill routes closer to limiting its impact in the inventive arena. The research,
guided by a multidimensional strategy, utilizes quantitative methods to study the
interaction of long working hours, various design tasks, and individual variables in
creating burnout assessments.
In the midst of increased awareness about the negative effects of job
related stress,
the study's aims centred on determining the prevalence of burnout amongst fashion
designers in Sri Lanka and determining its potential causal elements. The results of
thorough correlation and regression studies reveal a tapestry of links that mirror
worldwide patterns. The identification of hypotheses emphasizes the importance o f
extended operational hours and the weight of several design tasks as contributors to
burnout. Furthermore, the study sheds light on the critical role of human aspects in
producing burnout experiences, presenting a comprehensive picture that captures
the intricate interplay between personal characteristics, job expectations, and well
being.
As the conclusions weave together the threads of the study's results, they show a
landscape that goes beyond basic statistical correlations. The implications of the
stu dy reverberate strongly throughout the fashion sector, arguing for the deployment
of measures that promote work life balance, simplify task management, and increase
emotional resilience. However, this study goes beyond the constraints of the
company, givin g a paradigm for other creative domains facing comparable issues.
The study's summary encompasses a tale that is both a call to action and a
testament to the delicate balance necessary in developing creativity while protecting
the well being of those who b ring it to life. In essence, this study lays forth a plan for
a time when innovation and comprehensive well being live together.
Keywords
Burnout, fashion designers, work demands, well being, extended
working hours, creative industry.

2024

Greenview followed on and built on the successful DUALL project, funded by phase 1 of JISC’s Greening ICT call. DUALL utilised a socio-technical solution to the design of a simple web based information-feedback tool that could report electrical consumption of ICT equipment back to users. Greenview aimed to refine the ICT tool further into a more sophisticated smart phone application that would connect staff and students in De Montfort to the energy consumption of their buildings. We succeeded in developing an iPhone ‘app’ which was launched in March 2012. The app visualises energy use in buildings on De Montfort University campus. It presents the buildings as habitats for endangered species, providing a fun and engaging way to look at how we can look after our environment. The app provides real-time data through meter readings provided on a half-hourly basis, and with the inclusion of graphical data options, appeals to the range of preferences individuals have for viewing and interp...

2024

Orientador: João Maurício RosárioDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia MecânicaResumo: Visando melhorar a qualidade de vida dos idosos e portadores de necessidades especiais no seu ambiente doméstico, a Domótica Assistiva destina-se a obter sistemas adequados que possam lhes permitir viver em seu próprio ambiente de casa em plena liberdade, com o monitoramento automático constante de suas ações e suas condições físicas e com a oportunidade de contato direto com os fornecedores de serviços e assistência. Tornou-se desse modo em uma área da Engenharia que envolve a integração de diferentes conhecimentos, e sua utilização vêm se tornando cada vez mais frequente com soluções tecnológicas baseadas na busca do conforto, segurança, entretenimento e acessibilidade que se tornam disponíveis a um grande número de usuários. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é demonstrar a viabilidade técnica e econômica da utilização de ferramentas tradicionais d...

2024

There is a shortage of housing and people with a lower income suffer most from this. Vacant buildings are transformed to provide quick housing for them, but it is not sure whether this provides a comfortable home, both from an indoor climate and a meaning making perspective. Existing material about completed transformation projects and six case studies was used to explore possible opportunities to improve the match of user and building. It appeared that buildings are only transformed when they are left vacant for a while and a new function shifts the investment balance. Also, higher quality housing was only provided when it was not meant to be temporary or meant to be sold instead of rented. Current regulations and standards are not met and appear not adequate to function for temporary transformation projects, and matching users and buildings including the meaning of home is an opportunity worth exploring to provide a comfortable home for everyone.

2024, II Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo- ENANPARQ

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology on office space arrangements, trying to identify the contemporary trends of this architecture typology. This is an exploratory research and the study included investigations through qualitative methods that included procedures starting from a literature review, which gave support to the conceptual issues; research in journals and websites about office architecture, development of cases studies; interview with a professional and a technical visit to an office building. The results showed that the technology has a significant influence in the spatial organization in offices. In a century, the rigid layout and the hierarchical plan of a Taylorist office wasabandoned and a high level of flexibility of the space was achieved, making them more comfortable, less conventional and totality connected. It was found that there is not a standard that determines the office space arrangements in the contemporary scene, because the twenty first century companies were moving from their authoritarian and rigid culture to adopt an organization system based on creativity, flexibility, participation and integration; and the technology, in turn, is responding to transformations with advances in building and information systems, allowing spaces to adapt to the philosophy of each company.

2024, III Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade do Projeto no Ambiente Construído - SBQP

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar o ambiente de trabalho contemporâneo, identificando sistemas, tecnologias e soluções empregadas que caracterizam o edifício inteligente de escritórios. Esta pesquisa é exploratória e foram utilizados como procedimentos metodológicos, revisão de literatura, estudos de casos, entrevista com profissional da área de automação e visita técnica a um edifício automatizado. Identificou-se que, no contexto contemporâneo, a inteligência de um edifício está relacionada com a busca por economia, conforto, segurança, flexibilidade, comunicação e sustentabilidade. No Brasil, essa abordagem parece estar basicamente ligada à automação predial e ao emprego de soluções que visem o baixo consumo de energia e demais impactos ambientais. Na Europa e outros países, o edifício inteligente é concebido e gerido a partir de conceitos que referenciam todos os aspectos da construção, seus materiais, sistemas construtivos e o seu gerenciamento, atingindo resultados mais satisfatórios para esses conceitos. Como resultado, os aspectos que caracterizam um edifício de escritórios inteligente contemporâneo foram mapeados, a partir de casos nacionais e internacionais dessa tipologia, usando a simulação de um edifício através de uma maquete eletrônica.

2024, Springer eBooks

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2024, Facilities

Purpose This study aims to use a narrative-based simulation approach to explore potential implications of including or excluding a dayroom in the design of an internal medicine ward. Design/methodology/approach The approach involved: collecting data in facilities using field observations and experts’ interviews; modeling representative behavior patterns in the form of rule-based narratives that direct collaborative behaviors of virtual occupants; simulating the behavior patterns in two alternative design options, one of which includes a dayroom; and analyzing the simulation results with respect to selected key performance indicators of day-to-day operations and spatial occupancy, including occupant density in corridors, number and locations of staff-visitor interactions and duration of a doctors’ round procedure. Findings Simulation results suggest that the presence of a dayroom reduces visitors’ density in corridors and diminishes the number of staff–visitor interactions that can d...

2024, Intelligent Buildings International

Office design has been demonstrated to influence knowledge sharing within (large) organizations located in single-tenant buildings. For business centres, where organizations share spaces, facilities and services, it is often assumed that social networking and knowledge sharing between organizations occur even more frequently. However, empirical research with regard to the effects of the physical design of business centre offices on social networking and knowledge sharing behaviour is still limited, despite the growing number of business centres. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyse the effects of the physical work environment on perceived social networking and knowledge sharing behaviour within and between organizations in business centres. Data collected among 268 users of 53 business centres in the Netherlands was analysed using path analysis. Results showed that using a lounge room is most effective for knowledge sharing between organizations. Moreover, meeting spaces and flexibly used workspaces appear to be important for knowledge sharing within organizations.

2024

The current environmental, social, and political pressure for more efficient use of energy led to the emergence of new legislation and directives both at National and European levels and, as a consequence, to the creation of various focused technological initiatives. In this line, several developments are being carried out to increase energy efficiency by reducing the energy consumption of buildings, costs, and carbon emissions, while providing adequate levels of comfort to the building’s occupants. This work intends to contribute to this area, by proposing a conceptual architecture, based on collaborative networks of physical components/devices virtualized as services to compute and communicate information to support efficient energy management of building ecosystems. The architecture is designed considering the functional requirements, the most relevant technological challenges, and the implementation strategies.

2024, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology

The geofence has come out to be the application which helps in the protection of the machine and the jobs that need to be carried out both inside the fence or backyard the fence. This surely helps the employer to hold music of the gadget and the jobs that are being carried out from the devices, which increases the effectivity in the experience that the system is utilized in a suitable manner. One of the features of the product is Fencing where all the units will be given sure jobs which can only be performed when interior the fence and some jobs which will be active only backyard the fence. These points were already present in the Android Application side, now it needs to be applied in the Linux side. The approach that we have used is the geofencing API in the android side, however getting the geolocation of the laptop alongside with the latitude and longitude differs with the precise location. Therefore, we are going to use location-based offerings in order to get a specific area o...

2024, Intelligent Buildings International

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2024, Intelligent Buildings International

Primary school design is balancing between end-user needs and societal interests, and between traditional and innovative approaches. In current approaches, an unbalance affects end-users' performances and obstructs innovative school-building design. The institutional system of design should not only be more aware of adjusting the quality design indicators to end-users, but they should actually do it in combination with the increasing need for more innovation in school-building designs. Present guidelines emphasize objective rational societal and traditional interests but underestimate the subjective essences of individual enduser needs and the abilities of intelligent school buildings to meet important requirements for present and future learning environments. Based on universal human needs and dynamic mechanisms relationships, this article addresses a number of reasons that cause these mismatches. We present a theoretical analysis to establish Needs Centred Guidelines for primary school design as a methodological tool to improve the balance between the societal and end-users' needs, and to give more insight into underlying patterns in design processes. The guidelines are based on a variety of end-user psychological, physiological and bio-physical needs. This article explains how this analytic approach contributes to the attention for end-user physical learning environment needs and to innovate school design.

2024, 2020 19th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

In this study, we propose a multi-view data analysis approach that can be used for modelling and monitoring smart control valve system behaviour. The proposed approach consists of four distinctive steps: (i) multi-view interpretation of the available data attributes by separating them into several representations (views), e.g., operational parameters, contextual factors, and performance indicators; (ii) modelling different control valve system operating modes by clustering analyses of the operational data view; (iii) annotating each operating mode (cluster) by using the remaining views (i.e., contextual and system performance data); (iv) context-aware monitoring of the control valve system operating behaviour by applying the built model. In addition, the data points (daily profles) observed during the monitoring can be annotated by comparing them with the known typical behavioural modes. This information can be further analysed and used for continuous updating and improvement of the model. The potential of the proposed approach has been evaluated and demonstrated on real-world sensor data originating from a company in the smart building domain. The obtained results show the robustness of the proposed approach in modelling, analysing, and monitoring the control valve system behaviour.

2024

Projects often seek to deliver new or improved capabilities within complex, poorly defined and changing contexts. The application of MBSE under such circumstances can be problematic and in this paper we discuss these issues, and suggest... more

2024

Indoor location is crucial for enabling the provisioning of novel location-based services in several areas. There are many different technologies that could be used in order to implement a reliable indoor location service, such as, among others, Beacon with Bluetooth Low Energy, Ultrasound wave system with special receivers. The choice between these technologies must take into account multiple parameters (e.g., user-centrality, proactivity,..), and should be driven by not only industrial relevance but also cost-effectiveness issues. In this paper we claim that Beacon with Bluetooth Low Energy is the best solution for indoor localization, and we present an extensive comparison between two frameworks that are the most relevant solutions interacting with beacon technology: Apple Core Location Framework and Estimote Monitoring. The comparison results offer a clear vision of which framework has to be used in order to implement a reliable and cost-effective indoor location-based service.

2024, Ashrae Journal

Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. He is chairman of Standing Standards Project Committee 135, BACnet-A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control. NSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-1995, BACnet-A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks* ushered in a new era for building automation and control systems by making it possible to integrate building control products made by different manufacturers. Today, hundreds of thousands of BACnet products are installed around the world (Figure 1). 1 BACnet products are used to control HVAC, lighting, and fire detection systems, and for integrated equipment control. Despite the success of BACnet projects, owners and consulting engineers continue to struggle with properly specifying these integrated systems.

2024, Interspeech 2014

In this paper we present a Greek speech database with real multi-modal data in a smart home two-room environment. In total, 20 speakers were recorded in 240 one-minute long sessions. The recordings include utterances of activation keywords and commands for home automation control, but also phonetically rich sentences and conversational speech. Audio, speaker movements and gestures were captured by 20 condenser microphones installed on the walls and ceiling, 6 MEMS microphones, 2 close-talk microphones and one Kinect camera. The new publicly available database exhibits adverse noise conditions because of background noises and acoustic events performed during the recordings to better approximate a realistic everyday home scenario. Thus, it is suitable for experimentation on voice activity and event detection, source localization, speech enhancement and far-field speech recognition. We present the details of the corpus as well as baseline results on multi-channel voice activity detection and spoken command recognition.