In a few years, the world will be populated by billions of connected devices that will be
placed in our homes, cities, vehicles, and industries. Devices with limited resources will …

Early, effective and continuous monitoring allows to reduce costs and to extend life of road
infrastructure. For this reason, over the years, more and more efforts have been made to …

Batteries that can be directly recharged by light would offer a new approach to balancing the
unpredictable energy surpluses and deficits associated with solar energy. Here, we present …

Resilient, smart and sustainable: these are the keywords for the next generation of road
infrastructures. As a renewable and environment-friendly energy harvesting pavement, the …

The Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) has been introduced in the 3rd Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP) Rel-13 with the aim to provide low-cost, low-power, wide-area …

The current methods that aim at monitoring the structural health status (SHS) of road
pavements allow detecting surface defects and failures. This notwithstanding, there is a lack …

Smart cities need technologies that can be really applied to raise the quality of life and
environment. Among all the possible solutions, Internet of Things (IoT)-based Wireless …

Abstract In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed energy (DE)
transactions exist in various scenarios. This paper attempts to improve the intelligence, real …

Natural disasters and the poor management of civil engineering structures and
infrastructures require timely action and new tools such as specially designed structural …

Pavement is an important part of transportation infrastructure. In order to maintain pavement
before the damage and improve the service quality, it is necessary to develop an intelligent …