PerSCB 2018 - Pervasive Sensing for Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Buildings

In order to achieve the ambitious energy and climate targets for 2050 as part of the decarbonisation goal for the European economy, significant reductions in energy usage in buildings are required. Today, the rates of construction of new buildings, as well as the rates of the renovation of existing buildings are both very low. At the same time, an outstanding activity is taking place not only in research but also in commercial areas where ICT is increasingly being embedded into the physical world. Mobile phones, smartphones, NFC, RFID, GPS, and, at a lesser scale, networked sensors, which were placed market-wise until recently as niche products, are now familiar items in our everyday lives.
In this workshop, we look into how to design, develop and evaluate systems where such devices operate in continuous interaction with their owners to identify energy inefficiencies in buildings and achieve energy gains based on intelligent management. We wish to study on how to develop eco-systems of embedded devices by fully integrating them into the Web so that citizens are guided to achieve a change in behavior and consumption practices. The interaction of such systems with social networking platforms also promises to lead to novel and exciting results.
The aim of this workshop is to collect from academic and industrial players, papers reporting original, previously unpublished research, which addresses this important field. It is evident that the creation of an innovative IT ecosystem involves significant developments in a broad range of topics, from foundational topics regarding the organization and analysis of information to papers presenting novel technological platforms for interconnecting smart sensors and intelligent devices to pilots reporting recent developments in real-world deployments. In addition, novel approaches combining advances in IoT, Fog and Cloud technologies, with techniques such as gamification to stimulate engagement and behavior change are also in the scope of this workshop.
The research being presented can come from any topic area relevant to pervasive sensing for sustainable smart cities and smart buildings including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
Data management and knowledge extraction
Novel network infrastructures
Fog computing and network architectures
5G as an enabler for energy efficiency in Smart Cities
5G communication architecture and pervasive sensing applications
Smart metering infrastructures
People-centric systems and solutions
Wide area management and monitoring systems
Networking protocols for low-power devices
Methodologies for studying and analyzing smart buildings’ performance
Optimization approaches for Big Data analytics
Pilot applications and experiences in both public and private buildings
Distributed learning for IoT
IoT-based gamification for behavioral change towards energy efficiency
Applications of gamification in IoT settings
IoT for Energy-related issues in Education
Testing methodologies for large-scale IoT experimentation
IoT Security and Trust Labelling