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Design of a Smart Car Park with PV generation and BESS for Grid-on and Grid-off Operation. The SMARTEP Project
2022
The paper presents the design state of a smart car park shelter for electric vehicle in the campus of the University of Palermo. The car park is supplied by the main grid and by a 40 kW photovoltaic system and is equipped with a Li-ion battery storage system with capacity 42 kWh. The hybrid plant is designed in order to operate both in connection with the main grid and in stand-alone mode, supplying, in this case, all car park's loads and providing one recharge to an electric vehicle. Moreover, the energy storage system and, eventually, the battery of one or more cars with V2G technologies, can be managed for providing ancillary services to the grid. In the paper, the design of the system a…
Is sustainable aligning with smartness in transport domain? – marketing perspective of smart city rankings
2022
Rising awareness of sustainable development challenges, along with the quest for optimization of the everyday functioning of the city, motivate many urban authorities to search for promising concepts and solutions. One of these is the smart city concept, which has gained governors of cities’ attention for little more than ten years.An object of research and development, it is still a distinctive feature for the cities that adopt this concept. City marketers use such distinction towards a large palette of beneficiaries of the city. At the same time, it deploys some traits suggesting synergies between the implementation of smart city solutions and sustainable development goals. The main objec…
Il territorio dei Monti Sicani. Il sistema delle risorse territoriali per l’attivazione di politiche di sviluppo locale
2015
Il contributo presenta i primi risultati della ricerca – condotta nell’ambito del Laboratorio di Sviluppo Locale del Polo Universitario di Ricerca di Bivona e Santo Stefano Quisquina per l’energia, l’ambiente e le risorse del territorio1, ed affidata alla responsabilità scientifica del prof. Maurizio Carta – relativa all’interpretazione delle identità del territorio Sicano e alle opportunità di sviluppo da attivare attraverso la definizione di strategie fondate sulla dimensione rurale e culturale e indirizzate alla sperimentazione del modello smart land. La ricerca, che si inserisce nell’ambito dell’interesse ministeriale sulle Aree Interne, è finalizzata alla individuazione di sistemi rura…
A Research Agenda for Evaluating Strength of Internal Preferences and External Influences in Consumer Smartphone Switching
2015
This article proposes a research agenda to study what causes consumers to switch smartphone manufacturer and operating system brands. International consumer survey is planned for data collection and structural equation modeling method will be used to extrapolate whether internal preferences play a larger role than external influences in consumers’ switching behavior. The effects are expected to be moderated by behavioral control, subjective uncertainty and prior switching experience and controlled with a set of constraint variables. As a theoretical contribution, we propose a new theory to evaluate switching primarily through the latent construct of magnitude of switch. Potential practical …
Comparing the cost-efficiency of CoAP and HTTP in Web of Things applications
2014
Abstract Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been introduced as a simpler alternative to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for connecting constrained smart objects to the Web. The adoption of the protocol depends on its relative advantage, and the cost–benefit associated with the use of the protocol is a significant factor affecting a protocol adoption decision. This paper aims at deepening the understanding of the cost–benefits of CoAP and identifies the application scenarios where its use is likely to be economically justifiable. The paper analyzes the costs of using CoAP and HTTP in the Web of Things (WoT) applications, by identifying the components of the total cost of owne…
Smart Educational Process Based on Personal Learning Capabilities
2017
Personalized learning is increasingly gaining popularity, especially with the development of information technology and modern educational resources for learning. Each person is individual and has different knowledge background, different kind of memory, different learning speed. Teacher can adapt learning course, learning instructions or learning material according to the majority of learners in class, but that means that learning process is not adapted to the personality of each individual learner. That is why it is important to have smart educational process based on personal learning capabilities. This paper presents a literature survey on different learning systems which detects learni…
Context-aware data caching for 5G heterogeneous small cells networks
2016
In this work, we investigate the problem of context-aware data caching in the heterogeneous small cell networks (HSCNs) to provide satisfactory to the end-users in reducing the service latency. In particular, we explore the storage capability of base stations (BSs) in HSCNs and propose a data caching model consists of edge caching elements (CAEs), small cell base stations (SBSs), and macro cell BS (MBS). Then, we concentrate on how to efficiently match the data contents to the different cache entities in order to minimize the overall system service latency. We model it as a distributed college admission (CA) stable matching problem and tackle this issue by utilizing contextual information t…
Towards enabling privacy preserving smart city apps
2016
Smart city applications are increasingly relying on personally identifiable data. A disclosure of such a data to a platform provider and possible 3rd parties represents a risk to the privacy of the application users. To mitigate the privacy risk, two-layer privacy-preserving platform architecture is introduced, wherein the personally identifiable information is dealt with at the inner layer (executed in a trusted environment), whereas only generic and personally unidentifiable information is made available to the apps at the outer layer of the architecture — e.g., in a form of app-specific events. The essential requirements for the platform are described, and the architectural implications …
Rola technologii informacyjnych w kreowaniu smart city na przykładzie monitorowania rozprzestrzeniania się pandemii COVID-19
2022
Współczesne miasta stoją w obliczu ogromnych zmian, związanych nie tylko z postępującą urbanizacją, ale także ze starzeniem się społeczeństwa, szeroko rozumianym bezpieczeństwem i zdrowiem publicznym. Zrównoważony i dynamiczny rozwój miasta prowadzi do powstania nowej formy rozwoju urbanistycznego, który wykorzystuje nowe technologie informacyjno- informatyczne, takie jak m.in. IoT i Claud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain czy Industry 4.0. Narzędzia te wspierają procesy zarządcze w mieście i pozwalają na większą integrację wszystkich interesariuszy. Podłączenie do globalnej sieci wszystkich urządzeń przetwarzających dane pozwala na wzajemne komunikowanie się bez pośrednictwa człowieka. Zasto…
TECNOLOGIE E STRATEGIE PER LA VALORIZZAZIONE DEI BENI CULTURALI E ARCHEOLOGICI - Technologies et stratégies pour la promotion du patrimoine culturel …
2014
I beni archeologici costituiscono un capitale di valore strutturato con propri elementi distintivi di identità e di autenticità. Valorizzare queste importanti risorse del territorio, significa potenziarne la conservazione e la tutela ed al contempo incrementarne la promozione e la fruizione responsabile. In questo processo di produzione di valore, il contributo della disciplina tecnologica si pone in modo propositivo e strategico: sia in termini di diffusione della conoscenza, potenziando l’interpretazione materiale ed immateriale del bene archeologico, attraverso l’uso di strumenti evoluti per l’analisi del reperto archeologico; sia nel miglioramento dell’utilizzazione pubblica del bene, n…