With the rising prices of the retail electricity and the decreasing cost of the PV technology,
grid parity with commercial electricity will soon become a reality in Europe. This fact, together …

This paper presents the operation of an Electrical Demand-Side Management (EDSM)
system in a real solar house. The use of EDSM is one of the most important action lines to …

A heterogeneous network, mainly based on nodes that use harvested energy to self-energize,
is presented, and its use is demonstrated. The network, mostly kinetically powered, has …

The improvement in the transmission range in wireless applications without the use of batteries
remains a significant challenge in identification applications. In this paper, we describe a …

In this paper we present a heterogeneous collaborative sensor network for electrical
management in the residential sector. Improving demand-side management is very important in …

The XXI century home should be a digital habitat, a connected residence, but at the same
time it should be involved in sustainability and the environment. The location of new …

Because of the recent technological developments within the field of power conditioning
and the progressive decrease of incentives for PV electricity in grid-connected markets, new …

Because of the recent technological developments within the field of power conditioning
and the progressive decrease of incentives for PV electricity in grid-connected markets, new …

With recent technological developments within the field of power conditioning and the
progressive decrease of incentives for PV electricity in grid-connected markets, new operation …

To apply Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) to the characterization of very thin films
one needs to quantify the ionic intensity signals in non-steady-state conditions, that is, when …