Software platforms for smart cities: Concepts, requirements, challenges, and a unified reference architecture

EFZ Santana, AP Chaves, MA Gerosa, F Kon… - ACM Computing …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be instrumental in progressing
towards smarter city environments, which improve city services, sustainability, and citizens' …

Advances in wind energy resource exploitation in urban environment: A review

TF Ishugah, Y Li, RZ Wang, JK Kiplagat - Renewable and sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
Wind energy continues to stand out as a more established and mature technology to offset a
large proportion of power. Efforts aimed at improving wind energy use to meet the energy …

An exploration of IoT platform development

M Fahmideh, D Zowghi - Information Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract IoT (Internet of Things) platforms are key enablers for smart city initiatives, targeting
the improvement of citizens' quality of life and economic growth. As IoT platforms are …

Recent progress in renewable energy–Remedy of energy crisis in Pakistan

AB Awan, ZA Khan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Energy plays a pivotal role for the economic development of a country. A reliable source of
energy is needed to improve the living standard of people. Today, industrial progress plays …

Concept drift adaptation techniques in distributed environment for real-world data streams

H Mehmood, P Kostakos, M Cortes… - Smart Cities, 2021 - mdpi.com
Real-world data streams pose a unique challenge to the implementation of machine
learning (ML) models and data analysis. A notable problem that has been introduced by the …

Influence of free-stream turbulence intensity on static and dynamic stall of a NACA 0018 aerofoil

L Damiola, MF Siddiqui, MC Runacres… - Journal of Wind …, 2023 - Elsevier
In many engineering applications, aerofoils experience elevated free-stream turbulence
levels. The present work experimentally investigates the effect of free-stream turbulence on …

Gulf cooperation council countries' climate change mitigation challenges and exploration of solar and wind energy resource potential

FR Alharbi, D Csala - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change mitigation is one of the most critical challenges of this century. The
unprecedented global effects of climate change are wide-ranging, including changing …

Solar energy in the United Arab Emirates: A review

A Mokri, MA Ali, M Emziane - Renewable and Sustainable energy reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The primary goal of this work is to assess the potential of solar energy as an essential future
energy source in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The findings of this study are based on …

Technical and economic analysis of wind energy potential in Uzbekistan

A Bahrami, A Teimourian, CO Okoye, H Shiri - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Uzbekistan is the most populated country in Central Asia with a population of about 32
million people. Unfortunately, the country's electricity generation is highly dependent on …

Estimation of the energy production of a parabolic trough solar thermal power plant using analytical and artificial neural networks models

A Zaaoumi, A Bah, M Ciocan, P Sebastian, MC Balan… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The accurate estimation of a concentrated solar power plant production is an important issue
because of the fluctuations in meteorological parameters like solar radiation, ambient …