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Bangladesh’s energy crisis: A summary of challenges and smart grid-based solutions
No full textSmart grid technologies are an important topic of research and discussion in academia and electrical industries globally. When properly applied, these technologies can enhance the quality, reliability, and availability of electric power while maximizing safety and sustainability. This will both improve economic productivity for industry and quality of life for residents of Bangladesh. Application of smart grid technologies to establish microgrids, based on renewable energy sources as solar and wind power, into the main grid is imperative to ensure the reliability and quality of the electric energy supply to the growing light industries; the driving force of the economic growth for Bangladesh. This paper presents the concurrent condition of energy sector of Bangladesh and discusses the purpose and methods for adopting key smart grid technologies to reach the target put forth by the government of the country in terms of satisfying the demand forecasted in the country's strategic long term plan
SMART-Plant project poster
No full textScale-up of low-carbon footprint MAterial Recovery Techniques in existing wastewater treatment PLANTs
SMART-plant aims to support the water sector to improve and ensure environmental protection, become more adaptive, and respond to contemporary environmental and societal challenges by introducing innovative technological solutions, moving towards resource recovery approaches in wastewater management
SMART-Plant project flyer (H2020)
No full textScale-up of low-carbon footprint MAterial Recovery Techniques in existing wastewater treatment PLANTs
SMART-plant aims to support the water sector to improve and ensure environmental protection, become more adaptive, and respond to contemporary environmental and societal challenges by introducing innovative technological solutions, moving towards resource recovery approaches in wastewater management.
SMART-plant will scale-up and demonstrate eco-innovative solutions to upgrade existing WWTPs. Nine pilot low-carbon footprint systems will be applied in the real environment, in five different wastewater treatment plants with the aim of optimizing wastewater treatment, resource recovery, energy-efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Through these processes, a comprehensive portfolio comprising of biopolymers, cellulose, fertilizers and intermediates will be recovered and processed up to the final commercial end products.
The SMART-Plant project promotes the energy efficient wastewater resource recovery concept, through the technology platform developed within existing plants to eventually prompt the development of new products and business opportunities.
Global market deployment will be achieved as the right fit solution for water utilities and relevant industrial stakeholders, considering the strategic implications of the resource recovery paradigm in case of both public and private water management. New public-private partnership models will be explored connecting the water sector to the chemical industry and its downstream segments such as the construction and agricultural sector, thus generating new opportunities for funding, as well as potential public-private competition.www.smart-plant.e
Blijft het in Den Haag bij smart city of wordt het smart urbanism?
No full textNormaal gesproken somt men bij smart cities de nieuwste gadgets op. Verbeeldt Siemens haar utopie en promoot men het smart grid als de grote oplossing. Echter, tijdens het ‘Actueel Den Haag Debat’ (ADHD) kwam een interessante tegenstelling bovendrijven. Die leidde tot wat ik maar de Wet van Hajer noem: smart city + lokale politieke keuzes = smart urbanism. Wat gebeurde er?Heritage & DesignTeachers of Practic
How Local Policy Priorities Set the Smart City Agenda
No full textpeer reviewedThe smart city concept has emerged as a key subject pursued by local governments. Yet, it is not clear how policymakers narrow down the topics to focus on with respect to their smart city agenda. As a result, the aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical contribution that explains how local governments define their smart city policy agenda. It is suggested that the agenda is influenced by policy priorities at the local level from other urban domains. To support this notion, policy studies literature is used to show that three streams of problems, policy, and politics, when aligned, set the policy agenda. The smart city agenda will be formed from key ideas existing at the local political level, such as policy priorities, that have now been matched with solutions framed in the smart city context, all underpinned by a favourable political environment. In addition, from smart city policy related documents, a topic modelling analysis illustrates a set of topics that are associated to the smart city policy agenda in two cities, London and Melbourne. This shows how some topics on the smart city agenda can be likened to issues that are the primary topic of another policy domain
Saving Face: Shared experience and dialogue on social touch, in playful smart public space
No full textCan shared experience and dialogue on social touch be orchestrated in playful smart public spaces? In smart city public spaces, in which physical and virtual realities are currently merging, new forms of social connections, interfaces and experiences are be- ing explored. Within art practice, such new connections include new forms of affective social communication with additional social and sensorial connections to enable and enhance empathic, intimate experience in playful smart public space.This chapter explores a novel design for shared intimate experience of playful social touch in three orchestrations of ‘Saving Face’, in different cultural and geographical environments of smart city (semi-) public spaces, in Beijing, Utrecht, Dessau-Berlin. These orchestrations are purposefully designed to create a radically unfamiliar sensory synthesis to disrupt the perception of ‘who sees and who is being seen, who touches and who is being touched’. Participants playfully ‘touch themselves and feel being touched, to connect with others on a screen’. All three orchestrations show that shared experience and dialogue on social touch can be mediated by playful smart cities tech- nologies in public spaces, but rely on design of mediated, intimate and exposed forms of ‘self-touch for social touch’, ambivalent relations, exposure of dialogue and hosting.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.System Engineerin
The Smart City as global discourse: storylines and critical junctures across 27 cities
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was conducted to measure hit counts produced by searching for ‘smart city’. Consequently, 27 cities with the highest validated hit counts were selected. Next, 346 online texts were collected from among the top 20 hits across each of the selected cities, and comprehensively analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively using AntConc software. The findings confirm the presence of a strong globalising narrative which emphasises world cities as ‘best practice’ models. Moreover, they reveal the smart city’s association – beyond the quest for incremental, technical improvements of current urban systems and processes – with a pronounced transformative governance agenda. The article identifies five critical junctures (interlocking discourses) at the heart of the evolving smart city discourse regime; these shed light on the ongoing boundary work in which the smart city is engaged and which contain significant unresolved tensions. The paper concludes with a discussion of resulting implications for research, policy and practice
Detection of Cognitive Features from Web Resources in Support of Cultural Modeling and Analysis
No full textThe World Wide Web serves as a valuable source of culture-relevant information, which can be used to support cultural modeling and analysis activities. Part of the challenge in exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information relates to the need to detect and extract information about beliefs, attitudes, and values from a variety of different resources. The Web thus features a rich variety of information resources, and these are seldom categorized with respect to the dimensions in which cultural analysts are interested. Exploiting the Web as a source of culture-relevant information therefore requires techniques and approaches that enable cultural analysts to extract relevant information and organize extracted content in various ways. In this paper, we outline an approach to assist cultural analysts in the extraction and organization of relevant information. We show techniques that can be used to extract information about the attitudes, beliefs, and values of individuals, and how this data can, in turn, be used to support cultural modeling and analysis
Strategies for smart building realisation
No full textSmart buildings, as a concept, is now becoming prominent in the vocabulary of Architects,
Engineers, Construction contractors, Technology companies, Property developers and the
Estate or facility management function within organizations. Public or private sector, smart
building goals are now prevalent in corporate strategies whenever new build or retrofit /
refurbishment is planned.
But there seems no common consensus on what this really means. The 1990's and 2000's
witnessed much hype around intelligent buildings concepts. However, in many instances the
hype never produced tangible results. Now the scene has changed. Sustainability and carbon
management is increasingly on the agenda of boardroom decision making and smart in
smart buildings seems to have a purpose, almost as a mission statement.
The lack of clear definitions on what encompasses a smart building and what is to be
expected when utilising a smart building whether as a solitary or group experience is causing
the supply side industry to throttle back the adoption rate. Value structures justifying
adoption are not clear in this early adaptor stage. Thus costs associated with the realisation of
a smart building are quite hard to justify. This is compounded by the rapid pace of technology
advancement and the continual refresh of new products and solutions that purport to provide
an improved functionality or better price to performance advantage.
Thus strategies for smart building realisation need to be formalised into industry accepted
frameworks which can be applied in many market sectors - or verticals, and which can be
applied in the context of small, medium and large buildings or campus premises. This paper
presents some thought leadership in this emerging area of expertise and provides concepts
that may form the fundamentals for a future framework.
The author provides a perspective as a professional in Consulting for the Engineering and
Construction industry with regards to integrating ICT systems into the built environment. ICT
infrastructure comprises much of the building blocks for smart building enablement alongside
automation and controls, electronic security and facility management applications.
Converged IP networks, integrated command and control rooms, utility smart metering and
integrated BMS (iBMS) enables smart building functionalities to be implemented. This paper
presents viewpoints across all of these subject areas in the context of policies, technologies
and obstacles
Around the World and Across Centuries with Francis Itty Cora
No full textT.D. Ramakrishnan is an Indian novelist who writes in Malayalam, the official language of Kerala, the south western coastal state of India. T.D Ramakrishnan shot to fame with his works Francis Itty Cora, Sugandhi Enna Andal Devanayaki and Alpha. His works have received worldwide acclaim recently owing to its English translations. Needless to say, they are listed as bestsellers!! He has been endowed with the prestigious Vayalar Award and Kerala Sahitya Academy Award. T.D. Ramakrishnan’s Francis Itty Cora unravels itself as a postmodern novel as it offers multiple discourses on a variety of topics as he takes the readers across centuries, continents and diverse realms of knowledge and thought. This paper focuses on the play of multiple spaces and time spans that emerge and re-emerge as the narrative unfolds the story of Francis Ittycora
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