Creating an Energy Efficient Room

Creating a Smart Room using an IoT approach

In this paper, we present one of the pilot applications of the SYNAISTHISI project, whose goal is to transform a typical meeting room to a “smart meeting room”. The SYNAISTHISI platform is used to provide the necessary infrastructure to interconnect heterogeneous devices and services over heterogeneous networks. In the presented case, multiple sensing, processing and actuation units have been d...

Creating Parameterized and Energy-Efficient System Generator Designs

MATLAB/Simulink based system-level tools are becoming popular for FPGA designs these days. One major advantage offered by these tools is that the designer can make use of the ability of MATLAB/Simulink to perform arithmetic-level simulation, which is much faster than the behavioral and architectural simulations in traditional FPGA design flows. As energy efficiency of a design is becoming more ...

Creating Power-Aware Middleware for Energy-Efficient Data Centres

Self-managed middleware should be able to manage resources transparently and cost-effectively, while hiding the underlying complexity from users. Our group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has strengths in a diverse set of research areas, and through cross-disciplinary studies is building middleware that has the additional crucial feature ...

Room to Grow: Incentives Boost Energy-Efficient Homebuilding

Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs. This raises the question whether peer sanctioning systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other...