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Energy Efficient RPL Routing Protocol in Smart Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-20)Energy is an important factor that must be considered by multi-hop wireless mesh routing protocols because most sensors are powered by batteries with a limited capacity. We focus on the industry-standard RPL (Routing ... -
Energy Efficient Techniques For Algorithmic Analog-To-Digital Converters
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-20)Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are key design blocks in state-of-art image, capacitive, and biomedical sensing applications. In these sensing applications, algorithmic ADCs are the preferred choice due to their ... -
Energy Harvesting from a Vortex Ring Using Highly Deformable Smart Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-06)Recently, the growing demand of compact energy harvesters for wireless sensor networks has lead to an increasing interest in exploring the energy harvesting capabilities of smart materials. Smart materials are a category ... -
Energy Harvesting in Flexible and Semi-transparent Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)The goal of this study is to design, characterize, and fabricate efficient hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) photovoltaic (PV) modules, and semi-transparent solar cells on thin, mechanically flexible, optically ... -
Energy Management and Demand Response of Industrial Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-26)Energy management is an important concept that has come to the forefront in recent years under the smart grid paradigm. Energy conservation and management can help defer some capacity addition requirements in the long-term, ... -
Energy Management and Environmental Sustainability of the Canadian Oil Sands Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-10)By 2030 the worldwide energy demand is expected to increase by twofold, in which fossil fuels inevitably will still play a major role in this transition. Canadian oil sands, the second largest proven oil reserves, represent ... -
Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Microgrids are defined as a cluster of loads and micro-resources operating as a single controllable entity that provides both power and heat to its local area. Typically, these rely on conventional diesel generators, but ... -
Energy Management Strategies for Residential Distribution System Using Smart Meter Data
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)Energy management (EM) strategies for a power distribution system have attracted attention in the past few decades. EM within smart residential distribution systems is a long-standing challenge that involves effective ... -
An Energy Management System for Isolated Microgrids Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)The deployment of Renewable Energy (RE)-based generation has experienced a sustained global growth in the recent decades, driven by many countries' interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil ... -
Energy Management System Infrastructure for Solar Photovoltaic Energy System
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-31)In recent years, more distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, wind and more are being installed to compensate for the growing energy demand. It is vital to properly monitor and integrate these new energy ... -
Energy Management Systems for Multi-Microgrid Networks Under Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)Environmental concerns have motivated a gradual transformation of power systems in recent years, mainly focused on replacing fossil fuel-based energy sources with Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) such as solar and wind ... -
Energy management: An intervention-based analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Buildings account for approximately 40% of global energy use and emit 33% of global GHG emissions. Buildings also offer the greatest potential for GHG emission reductions, as energy consumption within existing stock can ... -
Energy Performance Analysis of Software Applications on Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-10)The power cost of running a data center is a significant portion of its total annual operating budget. Although the hardware subsystems, namely, processors, memory, disk, and network interfaces of a server actually consume ... -
Energy Performance Testing of Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-17)Smartphones have revolutionized the way people live their daily lives, the way they communicate with each other and the way they access information on-line. A decade ago, desktop computers and laptops were the primary ... -
Energy Regeneration and Environment Sensing for Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Robotic leg prostheses and exoskeletons can provide powered locomotor assistance to older adults and/or persons with physical disabilities. However, limitations in automated control and energy-efficient actuation have ... -
Energy Saving Behaviours of Occupants in a Multi-Tenant Zero-Carbon Office Building: The Integration of Social Influence Theory and the Energy Cultures Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-18)Energy sustainability in the building industry has received increased attention as building technologies become more energy efficient and the building codes become more stringent. However, the role of occupants in energy ... -
Energy Shaping for Systems with Two Degrees of Underactuation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-11)In this thesis we are going to study the energy shaping problem on controlled Lagrangian systems with degree of underactuation less than or equal to two. Energy shaping is a method of stabilization by designing a suitable ... -
Energy Storage for Grid Power: Policy Arguments Based on Technical, Economic, and Environmental Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-10)Renewable energy has been increasing as the demand for cleaner energy increases. The introduction of renewable energy into the power grid has however introduced supply and demand discontinuities due to the intermittency ... -
Energy Storage Solutions for Wind Generator Connected Distribution Systems in Rural Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-16)Environmental awareness and uncertainty about continued supply of fossil fuel has given rise to the renewable energy movement. Wind based power generation has been at the forefront of the motion to integrate distributed ... -
Energy Strategies for the Canadian Province of Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)The current and future energy situations in Canada are put into perspective, and the importance of nuclear energy and controversies surrounding it are investigated. More specifically, to demonstrate the important role ...