Author:Noubissie-Tientcheu, SI; Chowdhury, SP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Sep 2016The building with its components such as Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC) and lighting constitute a bigger part of energy consumption in Southern Africa. Control system in a building reduced the energy consumption, according to ...Read more
Author:Carter-Brown, Clinton GDate:Sep 2017The availability of appropriate, reliable and affordable energy is central to the sustainability and further development of modern societies. The field of energy efficiency aims to promote efficiency in the conversion, distribution and usage ...Read more
Author:Kumirai, T; Conradie, Dirk CUDate:Jan 2013The purpose of this paper is to analyse the thermal performance of two buildings. The one has a large thermal mass and the other a highly insulated low thermal mass. A typical 120 m2 suburban building was modelled in Ecotect. As part of the ...Read more
Author:Kumirai, T; Bole, Sheldon; Conradie, Dirk CUDate:Oct 2012A thermal simulation model was prepared for a “typical” suburban building of 120 square meters and nine different passive designs were simulated to evaluate their impact on the heating and cooling load.Read more
Author:Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Olwal, TO; Kurien, AM; Munda, JL; Djouani, KDate:Sep 2015The design of innovative technological instruments and frameworks for smart energy management is a challenge for countries across the world, and the creation of a 'Smart Grid' still has unresolved research and development (R&D) problems. The ...Read more
Author:Olatinwo, DD; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Mar 2021Internet of things (IoT) is a concept that is currently gaining a lot of popularity as a result of its potential to be incorporated into many heterogeneous systems. Because of its diversity, integrating IoT is conceivable in almost all fields, ...Read more
Author:Dludla, Angeline G; Ntlatlapa, Ntsibane S; Nyandeni, T; Adigun, MDate:Aug 2009Different studies have proposed number of routing protocols to overcome data transmission challenges. Very few of these protocols consider node energy. In this study, the state of art work from various studies is reviewed and compared based ...Read more
Author:Masonta, Moshe T; Mzyece, M; Ntlatlapa, Ntsibane SDate:Oct 2010The rapid growth and development of wireless communication services and applications corresponds to an increase in associated energy consumption. For broadband wireless network deployment in rural areas affected by unreliability and unavailability ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Mar 2014Waste is defined in the National Environment Management: Waste Act as: “Any substance, whether or not that substance can be reduced, re-used, recycled and recovered – a) That is surplus, unwanted, rejected, discarded, abandoned or disposed ...Read more