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Go to Editorial ManagerThis paper studies the impact of climate change on the electricity consumption by means of a fuzzy regression approach. The climate factors which have been considered in this paper are humidity and temperature, whereas the simultaneous effect of these two climate factors is considered. The impacts of other climate variables, like the wind, with a minor effect on energy consumption are ignored. The innovation which applies in this paper is the division of the year into two parts by using the temperature-day graph in the year. To index the humidity, data of the minimum humidity per day are used. For temperature, the maximum temperature of the first part of the year (warm days) and the minimum of the second part (cold days) are used. The indicator for the consumption is the daily peak load. The model results show high sensitivity to the temperature but low sensitivity to the humidity. Moreover, it is concluded that the model structure cannot be the same and for the cold par additional variables such as gas consumption should be considered.
Water scarcity, drought, and population growth accompanying climate change are dangerous factors with serious consequences related to potable water file unless appropriate action is taken urgently to deal with these issues, especially with large populations in the major cities as well as the suburban areas. This work presents an enhanced wide area network for efficient management of the freshwater in the major cities. Hence, it adopts Mosul city as a typical case that contains about 100 residential districts that require 100 sites of water monitoring in the different locations in the city where each site owns three different types of water sensors (water flow, water level, and pressure) in addition to the video surveillance application. The water station sites send the data to the control and monitoring center of the water. The collected data is processed and analyzed by public cloud or private cloud for control and monitoring purposes. The suggested communication network addresses the requirements of the water section applications in terms of monitoring in real-time. This work addresses the WiMAX system as a communication network infrastructure to handle the advantages of resilience, low-cost maintenance, and expansion The suggested network offered excellent behavior in terms of latency (maximum latency is less than 57 msec) and data traffic of the adopted applications.