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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department Electrical and Computer Engineering of 2020 IEEE ACCESS SPECIAL SECTION EDITORIAL: ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN BUILDINGS Kun Wang Yi Qian Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues Fei Richard Yu Peng Li Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/electricalengineeringfacpub Part of the Computer Engineering Commons, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. SPECIAL SECTION ON ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN BUILDINGS Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2961272 EDITORIAL IEEE ACCESS SPECIAL SECTION EDITORIAL: ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN BUILDINGS Energy usage in buildings has become a critical concern of interest. Because of its open access nature, this Special globally, and with that, the concept of energy management Section is freely accessible to all readers. in buildings has emerged to help tackle these challenges. Region specific fuzzy logic strategies are proposed which The energy management system provides a new opportunity cover all regions of the world. However, in the article, for the building's energy requirements, and is an essential ``Energy management with a world-wide adaptive thermostat method for energy service, i.e., energy saving, consumption, using fuzzy inference system,'' by Javaid et al., the authors' supply, etc. The wide-scale implementation of an energy proposed approach achieves a minimum energy savings management system and development of energy management of 6.5%, irrespective of where it is used around the world. mechanismsof mobile applicationsare faced with the follow- Research will extend the region-specific solutions for a ing challenges: worldwide adaption. • Integrating demand responses, smart technologies The increasing demand for electricity and the emergence and intelligent controllers in other available smart of smart grids have presented new opportunities for a home grid systems: To reduce energy usage and home energy energy management system (HEMS) that can reduce energy costs, environmental concerns, load profiles, and con- usage. HEMS incorporates a demand response (DR) tool that sumer comfort, and also how to integrate these into the shifts and curtails demand to improve home energy consump- existing smart grid, is one challenge faced. tion. Shareef et al., in their article, ``Review on home energy • Advanced energy scheduling, energy-saving, energy management system considering demand responses, smart supply, and load monitoring mechanism: With the technologies, and intelligent controllers,'' develop a cross- growing requirements of load balancing, stable energy time hierarchical energy distribution scheme to coordinate services are faced with great challenges in order to energy distribution of DC sector and AC sector and exploit reduce energy cost and serve buildings' energy user. It is the elasticity of DC sector loads on both day-ahead basis necessary to accurately analyze data and determine the and real-time basis, leading to a mitigation of distribution electrical consumption so that demand for energy can be load fluctuation. Then, power distributions are optimized adjusted efficiently and intelligently. separately for different procedures of the scheme. • Robust systems and effective mechanisms for smart Policy makers are approving measures to improve build- buildings: Among many applications in robust systems, ing energy efficiency in order to foster sustainable energy energy consumption could be linked and mined to gain usage. However, the intelligence of existing building energy useful insights for optimization of energy efficiency. management systems (BEMS) or net-zero energy buildings At the same time, load balancing systems can be effi- (nZEBs) is inadequate. To solve these issues, in the article by ciently scheduled to single and multiple homes dur- Hannan et al., ``A review of internet of energy based building ing off-peak hours, improving their energy efficiency. energy management systems: Issues and recommendations,'' Further energy efficient learning-based mechanisms are a BEMS or nZEB solution based on the Internet of Energy needed to save energy in smart buildings, which is (IoE) provides disruptive opportunities for revolutionizing instrumentalin making critical decisions for the devel- sustainable building energy management. The authors present opment of energy management. a critical review of the potential of an IoE-based BEMS This Special Section in the IEEE ACCESS focuses on the for enhancing the performance of future generation building architectures and applications on the Internet of Energy. energy utilization. 18 high-quality articles have been accepted from leading Scientific organizations and researchers are eager to apply groups around the world after a rigorous peer-review pro- recent technological advancements, such as sensors and actu- cess. IEEE journals are considered as the flagship journals ators, in different application areas, including environmental in the engineering field. The IEEE ACCESS is a new mul- monitoring, the creation of intelligent buildings, and preci- tidisciplinary, application-oriented, all-electronic archival sion agriculture. Technology-assisted irrigation for agricul- journal which continuously presents the results of origi- ture is a major research innovation which eases the work of nal research or development across all the IEEE's fields farmers and prevents water wastage. However, in the article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ VOLUME 8, 2020 1453 IEEE ACCESS SPECIAL SECTION EDITORIAL by Khan et al., ``Technology-assisted decision support system By using the unipolar transistor control the threshold volt- for efficient water utilization: A real-time testbed for irriga- age of the rectifier changes dynamically, through RF match- tion using wireless sensor networks,'' the authors propose ing, and double voltage rectification measures the supply for that the system's accuracy is directly proportional to the the low power nodes. In the article by Ma et al., ``A RF accuracy of dynamic data generated by the deployed WSN. energy supply method for end nodes in smart buildings,'' A simplified outlier-detection algorithm is thus presented and the authors propose a circuit aimed at reducing the threshold integrated with the proposed DSS to fine-tune the collected voltage of the transistor forward bias to increase power and data prior to processing. output voltage of the harvester and increasing the reverse With the explosive growth of smart terminals, access points bias of the threshold voltage for reducing the leakage cur- (APs) are densely deployed in the buildings of enterprise, rent. It prevents the loss of stored energy. The low power campus, hotel, and so on, to provide sufficient coverage and characteristics of the nodes at the end of the Internet of capacity for peak user demands. However, existing studies Things make it possible to convert the RF energy to electric show that during the off-peak periods, not all the capacity energy. is needed and a large fraction of low-utilization or idle APs In order to meet the load demand of electricity consumers, cause a great deal of energy waste in these buildings. In the the following authors schedule the load in day-ahead and article by Li et al., ``A state transition-aware energy-saving real-time basis. In the article by Khalid et al. ``Towards mechanism for dense WLANs in buildings,'' the authors dynamic coordination among home appliances using multi- propose a mechanism in order to set relevant parameters objective energy optimization for demand side management reasonably. in smart buildings,'' the authors propose a fitness criterion for Smart building is an effective solution to address the issue proposed hybrid technique. Then they present the concept of of energy consumption in today's cyber-physical systems coordination among home appliances. Finally, they evaluate (CPSs) connected world. As an important tool to collect the behavior of the proposed technique for three pricing information from a fleet of electric appliances installed in schemes. the building scope, a wireless sensor network is widely Broadband Internet access in the building has funda- employed for this purpose. In the article by Zhan et al., mentally changed almost every aspect of our lives. As the ``A novel error correction mechanism for energy-efficient use of indoor portable systems and devices grows, sav- cyber-physical systems in smart building,'' the authors pro- ing their energy consumption becomes an interesting and pose to incorporate forward error correction into the media important issue for smart buildings. In the article by access control layer of IEEE 802.15.4 standard for packets Wang et al., ``Energy efficient learning-based indoor multi- transmission, as the originally used automatic repeat request band WLAN for smart buildings,'' the authors proposed an mechanism is a timing and energy consumed process that energy efficient learning-based indoor multi-band WLAN should be avoided