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Location analysis - possibilities of use in public administration
V ÄŤlánku jsou struÄŤnÄ› popsána teoretická vĂ˝chodiska lokaÄŤnĂ teorie a moĹľnosti vyuĹľitĂ v oblasti veĹ™ejnĂ© správy jako je navrhovánĂ sĂtĂ a lokace rĹŻznĂ˝ch zaĹ™ĂzenĂ v geografickĂ©m prostoru regionĹŻ.The paper under consideration describes key theoretical issues of continuous/discrete location theory and possibilities of applications in the area of public administration activities such as networks design and location of different facilities in geographical area of regions
Supporting development and management of smart office applications: a DYAMAND case study
To realize the Internet of Things (IoT) vision, tools are needed to ease the development and deployment of practical applications. Several standard bodies, companies, and ad-hoc consortia are proposing their own solution for inter-device communication. In this context, DYnamic, Adaptive MAnagement of Networks and Devices (DYAMAND) was presented in a previous publication to solve the interoperability issues introduced by the multitude of available technologies.
In this paper a DYAMAND case study is presented: in cooperation with a large company, a monitoring application was developed for flexible office spaces in order to reliably reorganize an office environment and give real-time feedback on the usage of meeting rooms. Three wireless sensor technologies were investigated to be used in the pilot. The solution was deployed in a "friendly user" setting at a research institute (iMinds) prior to deployment at the large company's premises. Based on the findings of both installations, requirements for an application platform supporting development and management of smart (office) applications were listed. DYAMAND was used as the basis of the implementation. Although the local management of networked devices as provided by DYAMAND enables easier development of intelligent applications, a number of remote services discussed in this paper are needed to enable reliable and up-to-date support (of new technologies)
Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory - Preliminary Design Report
The DUSEL Project has produced the Preliminary Design of the Deep Underground
Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the rehabilitated former
Homestake mine in South Dakota. The Facility design calls for, on the surface,
two new buildings - one a visitor and education center, the other an experiment
assembly hall - and multiple repurposed existing buildings. To support
underground research activities, the design includes two laboratory modules and
additional spaces at a level 4,850 feet underground for physics, biology,
engineering, and Earth science experiments. On the same level, the design
includes a Department of Energy-shepherded Large Cavity supporting the Long
Baseline Neutrino Experiment. At the 7,400-feet level, the design incorporates
one laboratory module and additional spaces for physics and Earth science
efforts. With input from some 25 science and engineering collaborations, the
Project has designed critical experimental space and infrastructure needs,
including space for a suite of multidisciplinary experiments in a laboratory
whose projected life span is at least 30 years. From these experiments, a
critical suite of experiments is outlined, whose construction will be funded
along with the facility. The Facility design permits expansion and evolution,
as may be driven by future science requirements, and enables participation by
other agencies. The design leverages South Dakota's substantial investment in
facility infrastructure, risk retirement, and operation of its Sanford
Laboratory at Homestake. The Project is planning education and outreach
programs, and has initiated efforts to establish regional partnerships with
underserved populations - regional American Indian and rural populations
Analysis of the impact of the Asset Health Index in a Maintenance Strategy
Hosted by the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. May 23-24, 2019
- European Safety, Reliability & Data Association (ESReDA)During many years, asset management methodologies used in industry were focused
on knowing and analysing the operational control of the daily work and the impact of
the maintenance on the availability. Later, the costs turn into the priority, and
strategies were focused on assesses a longer lifecycle and optimizing processes and
contracts. Finally, recent normative have included concepts as “knowing and
managing the risks” and the target is to prioritize the maintenance tasks to the
critical assets. However, taking a balanced asset management model for the
operational environment, quite a lot of facilities of Oil & Gas sector are reaching the
end of their initially estimated lifecycle. New challenges are related to extend the life
of the main items of the facilities or at least, to find the optimal replacement moment
that guarantees that the maintenance strategy is being optimized.
Asset Health Index methodology considers a theoretical lifecycle of an item, in which
depending on the proximity to the end of the useful life, the probability of failure
increases. But take this theoretical lifecycle as a base, different operation location
factors or O&M aspects can modify this period. All these factor are quantified and
permit us to calculate a new theoretical profile.
This paper is about assess the impact of the AHI into the maintenance strategy
optimisation. AHI enables us to compare future alternative cost profiles and assess
the impact in the failure probability of the item. As a result, we are able to know the
risk that is taken when we enlarge the operation of an item, and the impact in the
operational costs
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Energy Information Systems: From the Basement to the Boardroom
A significant buildings energy reduction opportunity exists in the office sector, given that this market segment typically is an early adopter of new technology. There is a rising trend towards smart and connected offices through the internet of things (IoT) that provides new opportunities for operational efficiency and environmental sustainability practices. Leading commercial real estate companies have begun to shift from individual building automation systems (BAS) to partially integrated and automated systems such as energy information systems (EIS). In both the United States and India, organizations are seeking operational excellence, enhanced tenant relationships, and topline growth. Hence it is imperative to engage the executives with decision-making power, by tapping into their interest in sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and innovation. This expansion of interest can enable data-driven decisions, strong energy investments, and deeper energy benefits, and would drive innovation in this field. However, none of this would be possible without robust, consistent building energy information to provide visibility across all the levels of decision making, i.e. from the basement where the facilities staff take operational action to the boardroom where the executives make investment decisions.
Price, security, and ease of use remain barriers to the adoption and pervasive use of promising EIS technologies in commercial office buildings. We believe that these barriers can be addressed through the development of ready, simplified, consistent, commercially available, low-cost EIS-in-a-box packages, that have a pre-defined set of hardware components and software features and functionality that are pertinent to a particular building sector. These simplified, sector-specific EIS packages can help to obviate the need for customization, and enhance ease of use, thereby enabling scale-up, in order to facilitate building energy savings. The EIS-in-a-box are adaptable in both U.S. and Indian office buildings, and potentially beyond these two countries
Dispersed storage and generation case studies
Three installations utilizing separate dispersed storage and generation (DSG) technologies were investigated. Each of the systems is described in costs and control. Selected institutional and environmental issues are discussed, including life cycle costs. No unresolved technical, environmental, or institutional problems were encountered in the installations. The wind and solar photovoltaic DSG were installed for test purposes, and appear to be presently uneconomical. However, a number of factors are decreasing the cost of DSG relative to conventional alternatives, and an increased DSG penetration level may be expected in the future
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