The introduction of the Smart Grid brings with it several benefits to society, because its bi-directional communication allows both users and utilities to have better control over energy usage. However, it also has some privacy issues with respect to the privacy of the customers when analysing their consumption data. In this paper we review the main privacy-preserving techniques that have been ...

Smart technologies provide diverse and promising opportunities for reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions; they are increasingly expected to shift modern societies’ patterns of production and consumption towards sustainability. However, the existence of a theoretical potential does not imply that every smart solution (application of a smart technology) will actually contribute to s...

Over the last few years electricity markets are going through liberalization and modernization processes, which have resulted in introduction of smart grids. The Power Trading Agent Competition (Power TAC) is a simulation platform for evaluating trading strategies for the smart grid electricity markets: the tariff and the wholesale market. This paper gives an outline of our proposed strategies ...

This paper presents a review for the development of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) world wide and the use of Smart Antennas in ITS. This review work also discusses the usual problems in ITS and proposes the solution of such problems using smart antennas.

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“Smart pricing” has been the goal of the networking research community and the telecommunications industry for decades. Yet it has also proved remarkably hard to achieve. This paper presents a brief overview of telecommunications economics and technology, and the major changes that are taking place. Special emphasis is placed on the many popular but harmful notions that continue to lead this in...

In late 2010 , a request was made by members of the public to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors (the Board) to ban the use of smart meters in Monterey County due to concerns about potential adverse health effects. On January I Ph, 2011 , the Board requested that the Monterey County Health Department review the literature and produce a report summarizing scientific findings related to sma...

Requirements: • The situations in which users perform their activities in urban spaces are characterized by various types of context. • The same piece of information may have different levels of significance for people acting in specific roles. People in specific situations Relevant Information The ambulance approaching to the incident spot An traffic alert The ambulance engaged in the rescue a...

This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao. Likewise, considering how relevant the city-regional path-dependency is in each territ...

TERENCE is an FP7 ICT European project, highly multidisciplinary, that is developing an adaptive learning system for supporting poor comprehenders and their educators. The paper describes the automatic smart games generation process in TERENCE, motivates the need for a manual revision and describes it in detail. The paper thus provides a thorough insight in understanding the quality level of th...