LAIOLO P.

Universities can play an active role in facilitating the deployment at a wide scale of the sustainability concept, strictly cooperating with public-private institutions and civil society. Following this path, the University of Genoa, Italy, decided to transform its Savona Campus into a Living Lab aimed at creating a model of a sustainable urban...

A microgrid can be considered a profitable solution to be adopted in smart cities if it is marketable, i.e. more, or at least equally convenient than other traditional energy supply sources. Different economic parameters can be defined to determine its affordability. In particular, the LCOE ...

This paper aims at describing the activities and projects carried out at the Savona Campus of the University of Genoa to transform the Campus into an 'open-Air' laboratory, called 'Living Lab Smart City', in which experimenting the most innovative and sustainable technologies for the production, distribution and management of energy in the...

The present contribution is devoted to describe in detail the Smart City Sustainable Energy Living Lab (LL) that the University of Genoa has conceived and positioned inside its Savona Campus research and teaching facilities. Such LL relies on the research and demonstration activities related to the use of special infrastructures as the Smart...

As reported in the "Clean energy for all Europeans package" set by the EU, a sustainable transition from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy is necessary to improve the quality of life of citizens and the livability in cities. The exploitation of renewable sources, the improvement of energy performance in buildings and the need for cutting-edge...

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The reliable estimation of hydrological variables in space and time is of fundamental importance in operational hydrology to improve the flood predictions and hydrological cycle description. Nowadays remotely sensed data can offer a chance to improve hydrological models especially in environments with scarce ground based data. The aim of this...