The intelligent building definition: a central-european approach

Intelligent Buildings as Cyber-Physical Systems: a Reconfigurable Hardware Technology-based Approach

“…Such services may be related to healthcare issues, communication and information services, security services provided, or other human comfort-and convenience linked services. These all together ensure a wide range of high quality, intelligent and user-friendly human life style activities [5,8,9].…”

“…Of course, there probably exists worldwide different types of approaches and implementation strategies. Without the claim to enter here in detailed international literature analysis, there is mentioned one that has been unfolded in details in reference [8]. According to this, a modern intelligent building development may become successful if is taken care four important aspects, or concepts: the inhabitant needs, the information technology requirements, the energy management and the adaptation behavior.…”

Last Generation Mechatronics: a Two-level Platform-based Reconfigurable Technology Approach

“…These chips combine the high performance of hardware with some of the flexibility of software by using the ability of hardware architectures to rapidly change its internal structure and functionality regarding the various user needs. Such high performance reconfigurable hardware systems also exploit the advantages of the fine-grained instruction level parallelism as well coarse-grained functional parallelism, by using custom computing technologies [4]. Therefore, FPGAs possess the ability of parallelization and parallel computing, being ideally suited for distributed task solving or network computing applications.…”

“…Therefore, FPGAs possess the ability of parallelization and parallel computing, being ideally suited for distributed task solving or network computing applications. They also provide a cost-effective solution for complex real-time and computationally intensive multitasking processing purposes in mechatronics [4]. More over FPGAs allow multi-grid computation to be an ideal platform for finegrained parallel computing, representing the perfect solution for the implementation of highly concurrent control, communication, monitoring, and supervising tasks required in mechatronic systems development and implementation.…”

“…More over FPGAs allow multi-grid computation to be an ideal platform for finegrained parallel computing, representing the perfect solution for the implementation of highly concurrent control, communication, monitoring, and supervising tasks required in mechatronic systems development and implementation. Additionally, reconfigurable hardware technology offers the huge advantages of flexibility, low-power consumption, speed, adaptability and case of scale, represents the complete solution to a wide range of computationally intensive developments and applications [4].…”