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In order to support the intensive development of agricultural crops and, in particular the floricultural inside a greenhouse, with the perspective of a quick distribution in the market, increasing the economic benefits and supported on efficient and intelligent management systems energy, it is mandatory to conceive a model based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) This implies, accordingly, increases in renewable primary energy sources utilization coupled with sensing technologies, include developments on Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing (CC), supported with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that will lead to new architectural approach applied to a proposed energy system, based on a sustainable and more engineering autonomous process. This work comes up with a new energy model that retrofits the system of a greenhouse supported with multiple sensors in one grid, to expand into CPS concept to manage sensors and controllers that will improve a profitable energy system.

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During the next decades the refurbishment of old buildings will be an essential way to contribute to the global improvement of buildings energy performance indicators. Within this context, the present paper is focused on the use of electrochromic (EC) windows, an emerging technology alternative to shading devices, to control solar gains in buildings located in Mediterranean climates. The optical properties adjustments of the EC glasses are discussed based on the incident solar radiation. The ESP-r building energy simulation software was used to study the energy savings resulting from the application of electrochromic windows, considering the comparison of several windows solutions (single, double-glazing and EC windows) and windows orientations (East, South and West). In addition, different transition ranges for the optical properties of the EC glasses are assessed through the analysis of the energy needs for space heating and cooling. The main conclusion is that EC technology is an effective option in cooling dominated buildings. The impact of EC windows is highly dependent on facade orientation, being a valid option particularly in the cases of the East and West facades. For these facades, the control set point found to be effective corresponds to an incident solar radiation on the glass of 150 W/m(2) to impose a total coloured state. For the South facade the results show no significant advantage of using EC windows.

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The systematic innovation has been considered one of the most important practices in the business environment, increasingly uncertain and changeable. Understanding how changes they are occurring in society motivated by advances in information technology have impacted the innovation process, through the lens of startups. it is essential for the economic growth of a country, since most new products come these processes. The aim of this study is to develop a new model of development products in startups and small organizations seeking to develop physical products from innovations based on creativity.

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This paper, which can be divided into two main interrelated studies, firstly describes the generic modelling of a sub-transmission network model to serve as a UK variant of the original IEEE 14-bus test system. The revised model, based on the actual/realistic power components found both in the UK and in European grids, provides an updated and complete technical description, ready for use in a variety of power system studies, in which the 14-bus test system is one of the most commonly used in the literature. Afterwards, this paper categorises the typical demand characteristics of the residential load sector in the UK, by providing a wider range of reference demand values and loading conditions for the planning and modelling studies of distribution networks, dividing them into four generic residential load subsectors. Different 'after diversity demand' values are therefore provided per residential load subsector, classes of customers and seasonal variations of annual power consumption.

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This study presents an integrated approach for reliability planning and risk estimation in active distribution systems. By incorporating the use of accurate reliability equivalents for different medium voltage/low voltage networks and load subsectors, a probabilistic methodology is proposed to capture both power quality and reliability aspects in power system planning, which potentially avoids the underestimation of system's performance at bulk supply points. A 'time to restore supply' concept, based on security of supply legislation, is introduced to quantify the effect of different network functionalities such as the use of backup supply or automatic/manual reconfiguration schemes. The range of annual reliability indices reported by 14 network operators in the UK is also used for the validation of reliability results, which allows estimating the risk of interruption times above the regulator-imposed limits. Accordingly, conventional reliability assessment procedures are extended in this study by analysing a meshed urban distribution network through the application of a time-sequential Monte Carlo simulation. The proposed methodology also acknowledges the use of time-varying fault probabilities and empirical load profiles for a more realistic estimation of customer interruptions. A decision-making approach is shown by assessing the impact of several network actions on the accuracy of reliability performance results.

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This paper presents an efficient parameter extraction method applied to GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) for mm-wave applications. The procedure is based on S-parameters measurements at cold bias condition to extract the extrinsic parameters of a 19-element small-signal model. Hybrid technique of particle-swarm-optimization and direct fitting has been developed and implemented. The extraction procedure has been optimized to consider measurements uncertainty and improve the reliability of the extraction. The model has been validated by S-parameters measurements at different bias conditions and wide frequency range. A very good agreement between simulations and measurements has been obtained.