Written by an international team of experts from a wide range of research areas, this book highlights the emerging role of cognitive sensors in a growing number of real time applications including smart health, smart cities, smart transportation, smart energy and smart agriculture.

This Guide has been prepared for all those involved in the design, selection, installation and operation of direct electric heating and heat pumps in new and existing domestic properties in the UK. It also provides an insight into market models of how heat may be provided in the future.

Electrician's Guide to the Building Regulations includes the latest guidance relating to competent person schemes, third-party certification and covers relevant parts of the Building Regulations, including Fire Safety, Ventilation and Conservation of Energy. This guide has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026.

This book brings together leading experts in the areas of urban planning, transport planning and strategy, traffic management and transport technology to present a cohesive work on the policy principles and practical applications to drive urban mobility services in tomorrow's smart cities.

Smart roads are road infrastructures with integrated structural materials, sensors, information centres, and energy systems. The goals are extending service life and performance, reducing safety risks, and improving service quality. This book brings together the latest research into technologies for novel and smart road infrastructures.

Aimed at smart city researchers and engineers, city planners, and stakeholders in urban communities and local governments, this book covers technology advances, innovative concepts, solutions and applications in smart cities, both from an engineering and social aspects towards inclusive innovation and sustainability.

This book examines future video coding from the perspective of hardware implementation and architecture design. The book identifies challenges in deploying VLSI architectures for video coding and postulates potential solutions with reference to recent research.