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Second Nature

The idea of virgin nature is more metaphor than reality – a metaphor best represented by the fabled garden paradise from which Homo sapiens’ ancient forebears were exiled. Despite the fact that virtually every development site borders on an existing city o ...

2015

Analytical hill chart towards the maximisation of energy recovery on water utility networks with counter rotating micro-turbine

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Loïc Andolfatto, João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Existing water utility networks provides a wide, distributed and unexploited hydropower potential. The installation of energy recovery stations on existing infrastructures limits both the required investment and the environmental impact. The counter-rotati ...

2015

Online Stream Mining for Condition Monitoring in Large Infrastructure Systems

Nils Robin Bouchardon

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are nowadays widely used in modern industry. Their utility has been proven over the past decades to supervise any automated processes. The scope of applications of such a system has been extended fro ...

2015

WiFi-Based Marauder's Map, or where are members of a campus and why?

Antonin Danalet

Similarly to the Marauder's Map in Harry Potter, we tracked employees and students on campus. We model this output in terms of choice of activity type in time. By discretizing time, this choice is represented as a path in a network. The choice set is gener ...

2014

Ground temperature modelling: The case study of Rue des Maraîchers in Geneva

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Govinda Upadhyay

This paper presents a methodology to approximate the urban heat island effect by using a PostgreSQL database and CitySim software, a simulation tool to evaluate urban energy flows. A ground temperature model has been developed for shallow depths (until 4m) ...

EuroGraphics Digital Library2014

Spatial characterization of catchment dispersion mechanisms in an urban context

Andrea Rinaldo, Florian Rossel

Previous studies have examined in-depth the dispersion mechanisms in natural catchments. In contrast, these dispersion mechanisms have been studied little in urban catchments, where artificial transport elements and morphological arrangements are expected ...

Elsevier2014

Heading Off Correlated Failures through Independence-as-a-Service

Bryan Alexander Ford, Ennan Zhai

Today's systems pervasively rely on redundancy to ensure reliability. In complex multi-layered hardware/software stacks, however – especially in the clouds where many independent businesses deploy interacting services on common infrastructure – seemingly i ...

2014

Breaking Vertical Boundaries. The Spatial Logics and Underground Potential of San Antonio, Texas.

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piece-meal out of necessity rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. The underground contains not only potential usable space, but also raw materials, groundwater and geotherma ...

2014

Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Marc Schleiss

The ability to predict the runoff response of an urban catchment to rainfall is crucial for managing drainage systems effectively and controlling discharges from urban areas. In this paper we assess the potential of commercial microwave links (MWL) to capt ...

IWA Publishing2013

Active flood management in Alpine catchment areas equipped with storage hydropower schemes

Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Frédéric Jordan

The simulation of runoff in Alpine catchment areas is essential for the optimal operation of high-head storage hydropower plants (HPP) under normal flow conditions, but also in case of flood events. A semi-distributed conceptual numerical approach has been ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2013

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