Looking at smart cities through the lens of a pandemic era: A systematic literature review

GS Fischer, VF Rodrigues, RR Righi… - International …, 2024 - inderscienceonline.com
Health institutions and hospitals are essential in ensuring the appropriate treatment of
human health. One of the major concerns is the increasingly overcrowded patients care …

Optimization of COVID-19 prevention and control with low building energy consumption

T Hu, Y Ji, F Fei, M Zhu, T Jin, P Xue, N Zhang - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 is a global threat. Non-pharmaceutical interventions were commonly adopted for
COVID-19 prevention and control. However, during stable periods of the pandemic, energy …

Experimental evaluation of respiratory droplet spread to rooms connected by a central ventilation system

A Vlachokostas, CA Burns, TI Salsbury, RC Daniel… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents results from an experimental study to ascertain the transmissibility of the
SARS‐CoV‐2 virus between rooms in a building that are connected by a central ventilation …

Towards sensing urban-scale COVID-19 policy compliance in new york city

T Chowdhury, A Bhatti, I Mandel, T Ehsan… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Big data on the urban scale can enable many applications for improving city life and provide
a more holistic understanding of urban life to researchers. While there are approaches to …

Tracking urban heartbeat and policy compliance through vision and language-based sensing

T Chowdhury, Q Ding, I Mandel, W Ju… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Sensing activities at the city scale using big data can enable applications to improve the
quality of citizen life. While there are approaches to sense the urban heartbeat using sound …

Breatheasy: Exploring the potential of acoustic sensing for healthy indoor environments

B Chhaglani, C Zakaria, J Gummeson… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The exploration of our envisioned system, BreathEasy, offers the alternative utilization of
ambient acoustic sensing techniques to promote user awareness and ensure healthy indoor …

Data-Driven Techniques for Human Activity Sensing in Smart Environments

T Chowdhury - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and edge devices has exploded in the last decade,
providing new opportunities to sense and enable many applications to transform everyday …