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Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Two main strategies have generally been used for tackling energy reduction: one dealing with the design and development of building systems and appliances that are engineered to be as efficient as possible while meeting standards, the other addressing the user, usually through campaigns, advertisements, or physical interventions, with the...abstract 2018
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Kwon, M. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)The building sector accounts for more than one-third of the total primary energy use and has significant potential for energy saving [1]. However, various physical and social factors affect the energy performance of dynamic systems, such as the indoor climate condition, the building envelope, maintenance, building equipment, operation, and...abstract 2018
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Yüksel, S. (author), de la Barra Luegmayer, P. (author), Boerstra, A.C. (author), Luna-Navarro, Alessandra (author)Occupants are often unaware of window-opening strategies that can enhance their well-being and reduce energy consumption. Window feedback systems that indicate when to manually operate a window have become a strategy for enhancing the indoor climate, occupant’s satisfaction and energy efficiency. These systems are recognized for providing the...abstract 2023
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Nawaz, M.F. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author), Verma, T. (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Doorn, N. (author)Driven by climate change and energy crises, an increasing number of households in the European Union are becoming vulnerable to energy poverty. However, current renovation programs fall short in effectively targeting and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups, particularly in underprivileged neighborhoods where low effectiveness rates and...abstract 2023
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Stefanie Horian, S.H. (author), Qian, QK (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)Energy efficiency renovation (EER) of the existing residential housing stock is crucial to achieving further decarbonization to be climate neutral by 2050. This transition is particularly challenging for affordable rental housing providers as they have to make intensive investment decisions while balancing rental affordability for their low- and...abstract 2023
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Visscher, H.J. (author)Energy performance contracting is based on the idea that the investments for the improvements of the energy performance of a building through better insulation and more efficient installations will be covered by the savings of the use of energy in the use phase. The external contractor takes care of all the investments costs and guarantees the...conference paper 2014
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Souri, K. (author), Chae, Y. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This paper describes an energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor intended for use in RFID tags. The sensor achieves an inaccuracy of ±0.15°C (3σ) over the military temperature range (-55 to 125°C) and dissipates only 27nJ/conversion: over 20× less than a previous sensor with comparable accuracy and resolution [2]. This energy efficiency is...conference paper 2012
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Ayala-Romero, Jose A. (author), Garcia-Saavedra, Andres (author), Costa-Perez, Xavier (author), Iosifidis, G. (author)Supporting Edge AI services is one of the most exciting features of future mobile networks. These services involve the collection and processing of voluminous data streams, right at the network edge, so as to offer real-time and accurate inferences to users. However, their widespread deployment is hampered by the energy cost they induce to...conference paper 2021
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Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Bouwmans, I. (author), Deijkers, Emma (author)This paper introduces EMLab-Consumer, an agent-based model developed in the H2020 project Cheetah, on energy efficiency of households. The model builds on the theory of planned behavior, a large European survey and a variety of choice models generated from the same survey. It studies adoption of a number of energy efficient appliances and...conference paper 2021
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Konstantinou, T. (author), de Jonge, Tim (author), Oorschot, L.M. (author), El Messlaki, S. (author), van Oel, C.J. (author), Asselbergs, M.F. (author)Decarbonizing the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today, and is getting attention not only from policymakers, but also from social housing corporations, financial and tenants’ organisations. In line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, Dutch cities and housing associations have...conference paper 2020
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Wang, K. (author), Yan, Xinping (author), Yuan, Yupeng (author), Jiang, X. (author), Lodewijks, G. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)In the case of the global energy crisis and the higher sound of energy saving and emission reduction, how to take effective management measures of ship energy efficiency to achieve the goal of energy saving and emission reduction, put forward a new challenge for the development of shipping technology. The application of big data technology...conference paper 2017
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Pan, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)Temperature sensors based on Wheatstone bridges, e.g. [1,2], have recently achieved higher resolution and greater energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [3]. However, this comes at the expense of area, making them less attractive in industrial applications. This paper presents a Wheatstone-bridge sensor that uses a zoom-ADC...conference paper 2018
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Pan, S. (author), Jiang, H. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This paper presents the most energy-efficient CMOS temperature sensor ever reported, with a resolution FoM of 49fJ·K2, 2.7× better than the state-of-the-art. It consists of a Wheatstone bridge made from poly-silicon resistors, which is readout by a 2nd-order Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma modulator (CTDSM). This approach leads to a high resolution ...conference paper 2017
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Jiang, H. (author), Amani, Samira (author), Vogel, J.G. (author), Heidary Shalmany, S. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)This paper describes a high-performance Capacitance-to-Digital Converter (CDC) for sub-nm displacement sensing with an electrically floating target. Intended to be integrated into a displacement sensor probe, the CDC consumes only 560μW. It achieves 98.5dB SNR in a 1ms conversion time, which is 34 times more energy-efficient than the prior...conference paper 2018
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Akgün, O.C. (author), Mangia, Mauro (author), Pareschi, Fabio (author), Rovatti, Riccardo (author), Setti, Gianluca (author), Serdijn, W.A. (author)This paper presents the design of an ultra-low energy, rakeness-based compressed sensing (CS) system that utilizes time-mode (TM) signal processing (TMSP). To realize TM CS operation, the presented implementation makes use of monostable multivibrator based analog-to-time converters, fixed-width pulse generators, basic digital gates and an...conference paper 2019
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Zucca, Mauro (author), Bottauscio, Oriano (author), Harmon, Stuart (author), Guilizzoni, Roberta (author), Schilling, Florian (author), Schmidt, Matthias (author), Ankarson, Peter (author), Bauer, P. (author), Dong, J. (author)The European Union funded project MICEV aims at improving the traceability of electrical and magnetic measurement at charging stations and to better assess the safety of this technology with respect to human exposure. The paper describes some limits of the instrumentation used for electrical measurements in the charging stations, and briefly...conference paper 2019
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Chitos, Andreas (author), Karaliopoulos, Merkouris (author), Pelka, S. (author), Halkidi, Maria (author), Koutsopoulos, Iordanis (author)In this paper, we report evidence collected in the context of the Horizon 2020 NUDGE project about the effectiveness of digital tools such as smartphone apps and web portals to realize nudging interventions towards different energy efficiency goals: from the reduction of heating energy and electricity to the increase of self-consumption in...conference paper 2023
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Carvajal Carreño, W. (author)Energy consumption reduction is one of the priorities of metro operators, due to financial cost and environmental impact. The new signalling system Communications- Based Train Control (CBTC) is being installed in new and upgraded metro lines to increase transportation capacity. But its continuous communication feature also permits to improve the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Zhou, H. (author)The research presented in this thesis focuses on the use of hydrate slurries in the air conditioning and refrigeration areas. Both experimental and mathematical methods have been used. Hydrate slurries have been suggested as promising cold storage materials that can be used in air conditioning systems due to their high latent heat (193 kJ/kg and...doctoral thesis 2017
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Raji, B. (author)With the aim to limit the number of ineffective designs, this dissertation has investigated the impact of architectural design strategies on improving the energy performance of and thermal comfort in high-rise office buildings in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical climates. As the starting-point of this research, a comparative study between...doctoral thesis 2018