Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Applications in smart and connected communities

• Sensing and control for urban infrastructure systems

• Novel sensor methodologies, techniques, and tools

• Sensing and control of electrical, gas, and water loads

• Improved user interfaces to built infrastructure

• Modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, water usage and other resource flows in built environments

• Sensor systems and applications that enhance energy efficiency, energy reliability, durability and comfort

• Systems that integrate infrastructure with the smart grid to offer demand response and ancillary services

• Distributed generation, alternative energy, renewable sources, and energy storage in buildings

• Emerging standards for data collection, energy control, or interoperability of disparate devices or systems

• Sensing, modeling, and predicting the urban heartbeat including sounds, movements, and radio spectrum

• Human in the loop sensing and control for efficient usage of electricity, gas, heating, water

• Sensor systems for reliable occupancy counting

• Long-lived and energy harvesting sensor systems

• Scalable indoor localization and contextual computing

• Security, privacy, safety, and reliability in built systems

• Empirical studies of city-scale wireless communications