What is Energy Efficiency

Using less energy to provide the same service. Learn more in: Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals Through Environmental Education

The ratio between achieved performance or the profits from services, goods or energy, and the energy used to achieve this. Learn more in: Improving Energy Efficiency in Industry 4.0 With Multi-Objective Optimization

The characteristic of a product, process or activity to consume the energy in useful work and not wasted as useless heat. In the building sector represent the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. Learn more in: Phenomena Implied by Sustainable and Green Retrofitting: A Quantitative Approach

A way of managing and restraining the growth in energy consumption. Learn more in: Future M2M Communication Networks: Spectrum Sharing, Random Access and Connectivity

The process by which certain devices, buildings or other products or systems are designed and improved with the purpose of reducing their energy consumption. Learn more in: Comparative Analysis Regarding the Online Interest of Consumers Towards Green Retrofitting: Case Study in Germany and Romania

The ratio of minimum energy consumption required to transmit a certain amount of data to that of actual energy consumption. Learn more in: TCP Enhancements for Mobile Internet

Energy efficiency can be defined as the effective use of energy to carry out any task. The lower is the consumption, the better is the system. In communication engineering, energy efficiency is very important as the system needs a large amount of energy to provide services to the people. Learn more in: Deployment of Narrowband Internet of Things

Minimization of the energy consumption while keeping the same energetic service. In buildings, this applies to the energy management (heating, air conditioning, ventilation) that provides the optimal energy consumption while keeping reasonable comfort conditions for the occupants. Learn more in: Prediction of Temperature in Buildings using Machine Learning Techniques

Energy efficiency is the sum of measures and actions in all areas of life whose ultimate goal is minimal energy consumption, provided that the level of work and life remains the same or improves. Learn more in: Research on First Mini Solar Power Plants to Produce Electric Power on the South Serbia

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In a wireless sensor network, we need sensors to work in a longer lifetime. So, we need sensor with low energy consumption when they work. Learn more in: Deployment Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Consists in using less energy to provide the same service (e.g. replacing an incandescent lamp with a compact fluorescent lamp). Learn more in: Innovation in Public Health Care Institutions: The Case of Green Hospitals

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Energy efficiency simply means using less energy to perform the same task – that is, eliminating energy waste. It brings a variety of benefits: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing demand for energy imports, and lowering our costs on a household and economy-wide level. Learn more in: Green Cloud Architecture to E-Learning Solutions

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Using less energy to provide the same level of energy service. Learn more in: Green Cloud Computing: Data Center Case Study

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Dealing with energy efficiency in mobile using offloading. Learn more in: Fuzzy-Logic-Based Decision Engine for Offloading IoT Application Using Fog Computing

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Low cost and effective energy solutions and reductions of carbon ensuring a safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy system. Learn more in: Investment on Heat Pumps: Geothermal Green Solutions for Turkey Lowering Energy Costs

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The ratio of the average successfully transmitted data in bits to the average consumed energy in Joule. Learn more in: Energy-Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks

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It is the utilization of energy in a cost effective way to carry out a manufacturing process or provide a service. Learn more in: Demand-Side Management: Energy Efficiency and Demand Response

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Amount of work or energy released by the process to the quantity of work or energy used as an input to run the process. Learn more in: Formal Methods in Cross Layer Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Networks: State of the Art and Future Directions

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A factor that evaluates the power consumption performance of a system. Learn more in: Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networking: Towards a New Paradigm for Dynamic Spectrum Access

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Efficiency of a system that consumes energy to operate. Learn more in: Aerodynamic Isolation of Open Refrigerated Vertical Display Cases using Air Curtains

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It refers the goal of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services. The energy definition in this context can be fossil fuel or electricity. Learn more in: A Review of Future Energy Efficiency Measures and CO2 Emission Reduction in Maritime Supply Chain

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Minimization of the energy consumption while keeping the same energetic service. In buildings, this applies to the energy management (heating, air conditioning, ventilation) that provides the optimal energy consumption while keeping reasonable comfort conditions for the occupants. Learn more in: Forecasting Techniques for Energy Optimization in Buildings

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Reducing the amount of energy consumed without sacrificing the amount and quality of output. Learn more in: Employment Aspect of Energy Performance Practices in Buildings and Fiscal Policy Proposals for Turkey

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Low cost and effective energy solutions and reductions of carbon ensuring a safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy system. Learn more in: More Obstacles to the Growth of ESCOs in Turkey: Stumble In the Midst of a Financial Distress

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