If the heating and cooling systems in place are already efficient, the marginal energy savings from insulation upgrades can be lower, thus resulting in a higher cost per tonne of CO2eq reduced. This is especially true in cases where the baseline energy consumption for space heating is not as ...
The other case study summarizes the purification costs of 27 potable water supply systems in the United States and relates them to the percentage of forest cover in the associated basin [65]. In basins with at least 60% of forested land cover, the unit purification costs were found to be ...
The Kalman filter (KF) has already become the most commonly used sensor fusion technique for MEMS orientation systems. Various filter models were developed for different orientation representations, such as the direction cosine matrix, Euler angles, and quaternion. To simplify the implementation of KF...
However, the potential coordination of distributed energy generation, energy storage systems and smart home loads will lead to more robust optimization and corresponding energy cost savings. Utilizing price signals that reflect the forecasted value of energy during a particular hour—and also its ...
The combination of low-cost devices and advanced information systems can reduce the cost of daily life monitoring while preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. Although high precision is the main target that has to be accomplished in the medical checks performed by e-health monitoring systems, low...
This creates a growing need for technology-based solutions capable of helping older people to live independently in their places. Despite the wealth of solutions proposed for this general problem, there are very few support systems that can be reproduced on a larger scale. In this study, we ...