With the prevalence of various sensors and smart devices in people's daily lives, numerous
types of information are being sensed. While using such information provides critical and …

Reducing energy consumption within buildings has been an active area of research in the
past decade; more recently, there has been an increased influx of activity, motivated by a …

Commercial buildings contribute to 19% of the primary energy consumption in the US, with
HVAC systems accounting for 39.6% of this usage. To reduce HVAC energy use, prior …

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for managing
and controlling the operation of networks ranging from the data center to the core …

Residential buildings contribute significantly to the overall energy usage across the world.
Real deployments, and collected data thereof, play a critical role in providing insights into …

As the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges over the next decade, develo** secure
communication for IoT devices is of paramount importance. Achieving end-to-end encryption …

Internet of Things (IoT) is an important part of the new generation information technology.
Data management for IoT plays a crucial role in its effective operations and has become a …

Non intrusive load monitoring (NILM), or energy disaggregation, is the process of separating
the total electricity consumption of a building as measured at single point into the building's …

Modern buildings are being integrated with myriad (often> 1000s) networked sensors to
improve convenience, occupant comfort accessibility and energy-efficient operations. These …

Large scale deployment of sensors is essential to practical applications in cyber physical
systems. For instance, instrumenting a commercial building for'smart energy'management …