Smart City

This open source Modelica library contains an integrated modeling framework and component models for designing coupled energy, transportation, and communication systems. The framework features a multi-level, multi-layer, multi-agent (3M) approach in order to enable flexible modeling of the interconnected systems. Various component and system-level models are included as the testbed...

As international sustainability goals and U.S. sustainability initiatives increase, sustainable energy applications are evolving from the conventional single building to the entire city. A 100% renewable energy city (REC) will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in this progression. The energy system of a REC will integrate many subsystems including renewable...

Dr. Zuo was invited to speak at the “Panel of Current Research: Building Smart, Community-Based Decision-Making” at the Community Building Colorado-Style Conference in Boulder, CO, on October 19. Dr. Zuo gave a presentation titled “Novel Computational Framework for Optimal Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities” and discussed with the...

School of Architecture, University of Miami News: SBS Lab's research in a smart city named ZenCity is presented at the Smart Cities Conference.

As the title indicates, our lab's SEEDS proposal on smart city in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory is awarded.

The goal of this project is to develop a new planning framework for smart, connected and sustainable communities that allows meeting such zero energy, zero outage, and zero congestions goals by optimally deciding on how, when, and where to deploy or upgrade a community's infrastructure. By bringing together interdisciplinary domain...

Dr. Zuo received a $443,867 award from the National Science Foundation (Award No. 1633338) for their proposed research titled "BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: IA: Big Data Analytics for Optimized Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities". This is a joint research project with Virgian Tech. Congratulations! Press Releases: National Science Foundation...

The National Science Foundation awarded our new research grant "BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: IA: Big Data Analytics for Optimized Planning of Smart, Sustainable, and Connected Communities".

The SBS lab is working with School of Architecture, Center of Computaitional Science to create ZenCiti, a “smart city” expected to revolutionize the IT world with its integration of technology into everyday life. The project will be built next to the Yucatán Science and Technology Park (YSTP). The SBS Lab...