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Smart Homes as a Solution for Sustainable and More Inclusive Retrofitting of Existing Buildings
Doru Alexandru Pleșea (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania), Bogdan Cristian Onete (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania), and Ion Daniel Zgură (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9104-7.ch005
Abstract
All around the world, taking stock of buildings older than 1970, when the first energy efficiency arose, is an important one. Today, all urban agglomerations confront themselves with environmental problems generated by air pollution, cars, and buildings, vie for the first place as the highest polluters. In the future, cities will become increasingly populated, and as a result these problems will more and more affect the quality of life. A way to prevent this scenario is a gradual transition to smart cities. In this approach, smart houses will become indispensable. In order to maintain unaltered cities' specificity, the only acceptable solution is to retrofit old buildings, especially of those classified as historical monuments or as iconic buildings. By retrofitting these buildings, they could be prepared for integration in future cities.