@article {533, title = {An approach to implement the {\textquotedblleft}Smart Office{\textquotedblright} idea: the $\#$SmartMe Energy system}, journal = { Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, pages = {1-19}, abstract = {

Getting cities and communities smarter means to use\ Information and Communication Technology (ICT)\ to transform their {\textquotedblleft}metabolism{\textquotedblright} in order to offer sustainable services for people. This mission is a strategic but also very complex process that involves worldwide stakeholders (i.e., governments, entities, businesses and citizens), areas and infrastructures (e.g., buildings, homes, offices, urban parks, industrial plants). As part of this process, balancing sustainability and comfort objectives with energy efficiency and cost-saving requirements is a challenge. The\ Internet of Things (IoT)\ paradigm can help this process from the collection to the management of large amount of data. Generally, the conventional notion of sustainability is related to three main aspects, i.e., environmental, economic and social. If protection and resource conservation are typically environmental objectives, at the same time prosperity and continuity in urban contexts are two economical goals. Social well-being and equity complete the characterization of sustainability. Following this approach, in this paper we present and discuss the\ $\#$SmartMe Energy\ system, implemented at the\ University of Messinaas part of the $\#$SmartMe crowdfunding project. It allows employees to optimize the use of all the electrical equipments. The result is the reduction of energy consumptions and costs also improving sustainability and comfort inside offices, thus becoming {\textquotedblleft}smart offices{\textquotedblright}.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware systems, Internet of Things, smart buildings, Smart offices, SmartME, Sustainability}, issn = {1868-5145}, doi = {10.1007/s12652-018-0809-0}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007\%2Fs12652-018-0809-0}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Giuseppe Pellegrino and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {547, title = {Enabling Sustainable Smart Environments Using Fog Computing}, journal = {The 1st International Conference on Electronics, Control, Optimization and Computer Science (ICECOCS{\textquoteright}18)}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Kenitra - Morocco}, abstract = {

The upward trend in using both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. We can talk about IoT Cloud\ to indicate a distributed complex system which is able to provide IoT-as-a-Service (IoTaaS). At the edge of the system, multisensors electronic devices make smart\ the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}things{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} they control also enabling the interconnection with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet.

In such scenario, achieving energy-aware IoTaaS is a challenge which needs appropriate choices in all the environmental, economic and ethical aspects of sustainability. The use of Fog computing\ can help to discover new business opportunities taking into account the above {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}green{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} goal.

In this paper, we discuss the advantages from using Fog computing to offer energy-aware IoTaaS in sustainable smart environments.

Moreover, we present an experimental use case proving the feasibility of our proposal.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware, Fog computing, IoT, IoTaaS, smart buildings, Smart Environment, sustainability.}, author = {Sarah Zanafi and Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito and Noura Aknin} } @proceedings {485, title = {The ESSB System: A Novel Solution To Improve Comfort And Sustainability In Smart Office Environments}, journal = {The14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2017)}, year = {2017}, month = {05/2017}, pages = {311-316}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Calabria, Italy}, abstract = {

Getting cities and communities smarter is a strategic but also very complex process that involves several actors (e.g., governments, industries, scientific researchers) and addresses many challenges. Among these, energy efficiency and cost-saving are indispensable. Following this line, in this paper we propose a novel energy-aware management system, we name Energy Saving Smart Building (ESSB), for smart environments. More specifically, we present its experimental use at University of Messina\ in order to optimize the use of all the electrical equipments. The results are the reduction of energy consumptions and costs improving comfort and sustainability in smart office environments.\ 

}, keywords = {energy cost-saving, Energy Efficiency, Energy-aware systems, Internet of Things, smart buildings, smart cities, smart office, sustainability.}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Giuseppe Pellegrino and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito} }