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.

This book focuses on both the design and implementation aspects for smart city and sensing applications that are enabled and supported by IoT paradigms. Attention is also given to data delivery approaches and performance aspects.

This is a comprehensive textbook and reference that provides a solid background in active sensing technology. Beginning with a historical overview and an introductory section on signal generation, filtering and modulation, it follows with a section on radiometry (infrared and microwave) as a background to the active sensing process.

Guide to Electrical Maintenance, 2nd Edition will seek to update the Guidance document to incorporate changes and updates in UK standards since first publication as well as engage with a more developed marketplace including newer technologies and the economics of maintenance within a more sustainable agenda.

This book provides a practical and comprehensive analysis of control systems for boilers and HRSGs (heat-recovery steam generators) in a variety of applications from waste-to-energy plants through to combined-cycle gas-turbine power stations (CCGTs).

This book describes highly effective, rigorous analysis methods for electromagnetic wave problems.