Mohamed Essaaidi

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Mohammed V University

Living and working in comfort while a building’s energy consumption is kept under control requires monitoring a system’s consumption to optimize the energy performance. The way energy is generally used is often far from optimal, which requires the use of smart meters that can record the energy consumption and communicate the information to an energ...

A smart city is one that uses digital technologies and other means to improve the quality of life of its citizens and reduce the cost of municipal services. Smart cities primarily use IoT to collect and analyze data to interact directly with the city’s infrastructure and monitor city assets and community developments in real time to improve operati...

Building equipment accounts for almost 40% of total global energy consumption. More than half of which is used by active systems, such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. These latter are responsible for the occupants’ well-being and considered among the main consumers of electricity in buildings. In order to improve both o...

Nowadays, electric vehicles (EV) are increasingly penetrating the transportation roads in most countries worldwide. Many efforts are oriented toward the deployment of the EVs infrastructures, including those dedicated to intelligent transportation and electro-mobility as well. For instance, many Moroccan organizations are collaborating to deploy ch...

This paper presents the design of a 1×16-elements RDRA array for anti-collision radar SRR application at 24 GHz. A single RDRA with high dielectric constant of 41, fed by a simple microstrip line feeding technique, is initially designed to operate around 24 GHz. The RDRA element is further used within an array network structure made up of 16 linear...

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A novel compact Ultra-Wide-Band Planar Inverted-L antenna is presented and investigated in this paper. The proposed antenna consists of a square planar radiating element with a U-shaped slot. The radiating element is supported by a shorting wall, and fed by a single 50 Ohms characteristic impedance microstripe line, printed on the top of the FR-4 s...

With over 4.4 billion people living in urban areas, buildings are currently the greatest energy consumers on a worldwide scale, accounting for 40% of the global energy consumption and using 50% of the world’s final electrical energy. The built environment, as being the focus of numerous types of research, is the key platform for introducing technol...

During the past ten years, worldwide efforts have been pursuing an ambitious policy of sustainable development, particularly in the energy sector. This ambition was revealed by noticeable progress in the deployment and development of infrastructures for the production of renewable electrical energy. These infrastructures combined with the deploymen...

Wind energy is one of the most promising solutions to energy crisis and environmental pollution, so it is being developed rapidly. Wind turbine power curves (WTPCs) play an important role in wind energy assessment, turbine condition monitoring, and power grid dispatching. However, there are two challenges in WTPC modeling: model selection and param...

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deemed a promising technique for future wireless and mobile technologies due to its ability to reconfigure the radio propagation environment. In this paper, we analyze the physical layer security (PLS) of a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network through an IRS intended for assisting the wirele...

The climate of Houston, classified as a humid subtropical climate with tropical influences, makes the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems the largest electricity consumers in buildings. HVAC systems in commercial buildings are usually operated by a centralized control system and/or an energy management system based on a fixed...

Building operations represent a significant percentage of the total primary energy consumed in most countries due to the proliferation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) installations in response to the growing demand for improved thermal comfort. Reducing the associated energy consumption while maintaining comfortable conditions i...

Building operations represent a significant percentage of the total primary energy consumed in most countries due to the proliferation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) installations in response to the growing demand for improved thermal comfort. Reducing the associated energy consumption while maintaining comfortable conditions i...

Building operations represent a significant percentage of the total primary energy consumed in most countries due to the proliferation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) installations in response to the growing demand for improved thermal comfort. Reducing the associated energy consumption while maintaining comfortable conditions i...

Speed forecasting has numerous applications in intelligent transport systems’ design and control, especially for safety and road efficiency applications. In the field of electromobility, it represents the most dynamic parameter for efficient online in-vehicle energy management. However, vehicles’ speed forecasting is a challenging task, because its...

The integration of open communication infrastructures and bidirectional communication between smart metres and utilities in smart grids is very important to support vast amounts of data exchange. It also increases the openness and opportunity of resource sharing across smart grid users, which makes the network vulnerable to several cyber-attacks...

The integration of open communication infrastructures and bidirectional communication between smart metres and utilities in smart grids is very important to support vast amounts of data exchange. It also increases the openness and opportunity of resource sharing across smart grid users, which makes the network vulnerable to several cyber-attacks. T...

Micro-grid systems (MGS) are increasingly investigated for green and energy efficient buildings in order to reduce energy consumption while maintaining occupants’ comfort. It includes renewable energy sources for power production, storage devices for storing power excess, and control strategies for orchestrating all components and improving the sys...

span lang="EN-US">A compact design of ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with dual band-notched characteristics based on split-ring resonators (SRR) are investigated in this paper. The wider impedance bandwidth (from 2.73 to 11.34 GHz) is obtained by using two symmetrical slits in the radiating patch and another slit in the partial ground plane. The dual...

Ventilation, heating and air conditioning systems are the main energy consumers in building sector. Improving the energy consumption of these systems, while satisfying the occupants’ comfort, is the major concern of control and automation designers and researchers. Model predictive control (MPC) methods have been widely studied in order to reduce t...

Discussion of the environmental impact of buildings has been gaining weight in the agendas of a number of cities and countries around the world. Indeed, approximately 38% of the final energy consumption growth between 2015 and 2050 in the world is correlated to the use and occupation of buildings. In this regard, the building sector was identified...

The 2nd International Conference on Research in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science ICRAMCS 2020 Proceedings ISSN: 2605-7700 _ Page 79 https://icramcs2020.sciencesconf.org/data/Proceedings.pdf#page=58

Smart grid is a system in which it is possible to use voting-based techniques to resist sabotage of several cyber-attacks. The adaptation of these techniques can be difficult and useless in the case when the malicious resources (i.e., smart meters) of this system can return wrong data in same time; however, the collusion problem is triggered. To de...

The rapid development of urbanization poses many economic, social and environmental problems. The smart city brings smart solutions that are effective and sustainable in different areas: transportation, environment, energy and government affairs. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the basis of the structure of a smart city to interconnect all devices...

This book constitutes selected papers of the Second International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2019, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in November 2019. The 10 full papers and 10 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized accroding to the following top...

Context‐awareness in energy‐efficient buildings has been considered as a crucial fact for developing context‐driven control approaches in which sensing and actuation tasks are performed according to the contextual changes. This could be done by including the presence of occupants, number, actions, and behaviors in up‐to‐date context, taking into ac...

Abstract— This paper investigates an improved framework of a Micro-Grid Central Control (MGCC) based Micro-Grid system. The electrical structure is composed of three coupled substation networks, which integrate a high rate of distributed energy resources (DERs), to make it as a smart micro-grid system. The proposed framework contains a supervisory...

Enhancing vehicle drivers’ safety and decreasing accidents are the current new challenges in traffic safety. Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) offer improvements addressing these challenges through their frequent topology changes. More specifically, VANETs communicate via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-roadside networks (V2R) mainly by br...

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) can serve to guarantee road safety and comfort for drivers. This is done using broadcasting which is the most used technique to disseminate data. If done blindly, it leads to the famous broadcast storm problem. The broadcast storm problem occurs when a huge amount of messages is sent, which increases resource cons...

Thermal comfort is closely related to the evaluation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. It can be seen as the result of the perception of the occupants of a given environment, and it is the product of the interaction of a number of personal and environmental factors. Otherwise, comfort issues still do not play an important role...

Smart grid network is a system in which it is possible to use voting-based techniques to resist sabotage of several cyber-attacks. The adaptation of these techniques can be difficult and useless in the case when the malicious resources (i.e., smart meters) of this system can return wrong data in same time; however, the collusion problem is triggere...

Micro-grid (MG) systems are increasingly deployed on buildings in order to enhance energy efficiency while maintaining occupants' comfort. A MG system includes renewable energy sources (RES) for energy production, storage devices for storing energy excess, and control strategies for orchestrating all components and for improving the efficiency of t...

Control approaches of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in buildings have been proposed in the past years for minimizing energy consumption and maintaining occupants’ comfort. However, recent studies have shown that context-driven control approaches using Internet of things and data stream processing technologies could further impro...

In this paper, we report the design of a new compact single layer modified S-shaped tag antenna for UHF-RFID applications. To achieve a compact size of 51×34 mm2 for this tag antenna, the technique of using S shaped strip is applied, and by further adding a pair of equilateral triangular stubs into this structure, good impedance matching can be obt...

Connecting Renewable Energy Sources and Systems (RESSs) to utility power grids is one of the most ambitious endeavors of Smart Grid (SG) development in many countries. The challenge of integrating RESSs is that it is highly variable, intermittent and unreliable. Electric power grids must therefore absorb this variability with a portfolio of solutio...

Cloud Wireless Sensor Networks consist of a large number of miniature devices called sensor nodes scattered over a geographical area called sensor field. These nodes are attempted to collect information or data which is forwarded through gateways called base stations. The communication scenario through sensor nodes leads to some amount of energy wa...

This work presents the design of a high gain Stacked Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (Sc. CDRA) fed by a micro-strip line for anti-collision radar SRR application at 79 GHz. The first proposed stacked antenna, which is resonating at 79 GHz and has a simulated gain of 8.39dB, is formed by two stacked cylindrical dielectric resonators (DR) m...

This paper presents analysis and design of a compact dual bandstop filter using an array of square split ring resonators (SSRR). The SSRR are placed in the ground to cut off the unwanted signals. The results show that the angular orientation of the inner ring offers the possibility of designing dual bandstop filter with a small size and simple stru...

In this article, a parasitic element structure is proposed to reduce the mutual coupling in a miniaturized microstrip dual-band Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna, which resonates at (7.8 GHz) for X-band and at (14.2GHz) for Ku band applications. The design of the primary antenna consists of two identical radiators placed on a 24 × 20mm2...

In this paper, we present a broadband flexible RFID sensor tag antenna to detect the concentration of aqueous solutions. The proposed RFID tag antenna sensor with a T matching network is based on a printed dipole whose arms are loaded with circular disk patches. The structure is printed on a Kapton polyimide flexible substrate. The sensing mechanis...

This book addresses topics related to cloud and Big Data technologies, architecture and applications including distributed computing and data centers, cloud infrastructure and security, and end-user services. The majority of the book is devoted to the security aspects of cloud computing and Big Data. Cloud computing, which can be seen as any subsc...

In this paper, a consensus-based network coordination problem for microgrids (MGs) and MG clusters is considered. The designed model focuses on optimizing the data sharing between the agents attached to each component of a MG system, in particular: distributed energy resource's agents and those of intelligent circuit breakers (i-CBs), in order to p...

A very compact microstrip triple-band bandstop filter (TB-BSF) based on a complementary split ring resonator (CSRR) is presented in this paper. The proposed filter is characterized by a dual-band and a single-band BSF. The dual-band BSF suppresses two frequency bands that correspond to 2.4 GHz and 3.5 GHz (WLAN/WiMAX applications). While, the singl...

in this work we present a 16x1 array’ elements of a high gain Novel shape designed Dielectric Resonator Antenna (NDRA), having a low dielectric constant value of 18, for wide band (WB) and narow band (NB) 24 GHz automotive Short Range Radar (SRR) applications. The proposed NDRA array is feed by an efficient microstrip network feeding mechanism and...

Ventilation systems are deployed in buildings to maintain good indoor air quality, especially in specific periods, or in the absence of buildings’ windows. These systems perform automatically this task by regulating the injected air according to the actual indoor CO2 concentration. Several control approaches have been implemented and deployed in re...

L'utilisation de l'énergie solaire a augmenté considérablement en raison de lanécessité de développer d'autres sources d'énergie à côté de pétrole et de gaz. Cependant,l'intégration des énergies renouvelables à grande échelle est l'un des principaux défisdans le développement du réseau électrique intelligent (Smart Grid). Plusieurs pays ontdévelopp...

Organize The first edition of National PhD Students Days, at The Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University, from Friday May 4th to Saturday May 5th 2018. Besides the panels during which PhD students will be able to introduce their papers which will be discussed by a senior researchers and another PhD students. It will also be open...

Running MapReduce computation in public cloud raises a series of security challenges since the service providers may not be properly protected. Due to the fact that the MapReduce applications are long-running, which increases the chance of an attacker to massively perform malicious attacks by exploiting the workers vulnerability, many workers may b...

Recently, the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMIs) has played a major role in various aspects of today's power distribution grid, especially at the end-user that will be an essential element of the next generation of electrical power grid (Smart Grid). In fact, the extension of advanced technologies t...

In this article, we introduce an antenna printed on a flexible substrate. This prototype is intended for a flexible display device. The flexible screen has the advantage of being finer and more shock-resistant than the current slabs while allowing smart-phones to adapt to different uses due to its flexibility. The suggested antenna is a dipole with...

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems are generally deployed in buildings for maintaining occupants’ comfort. They are the most considered systems in improving the energy saving while sustaining occupants’ comfort. Several approaches have been proposed, in the past few years, to develop an optimal control for ventilation systems. Howeve...

Context-awareness has been considered as a crucial fact for developing context-driven control approaches in which sensing, and actuation tasks are performed according to the contextual changes. This could be done by including the occupants’ presence, number, actions and behaviours in up-to-date context taking into account the complex interlinked el...

Dans ce travail, un algorithme de détection d'intrusions est proposé pour les stations de recharge des véhicules électriques. Cet algorithme est développé dans la vision de l'implémenter à travers des capteurs sans fil distribués au niveau local d'un réseau intelligent. Le principe repose sur le regroupement et l'adaptation d'un ensemble d'algorith...

On the fast actual demographic trend and increasing comfort level, consumers are becoming more and more demanding in the areas of heating, cooling, ventilation, air conditioning, and lighting. Reducing energy consumption is necessary in all key sectors, such as buildings and construction, cities, and urban areas. Recent studies showed that using In...

The easy deployment of wireless sensors allows the development of context-aware applications that could react to the environment changes and users preferences. For example, data extracted from mobile phones, IoT devices, and embedded computers in buses and taxis could be processed in real time to understand city dynamics. However, gathering and rea...

p>The article presents a miniature antenna with a simple geometry and a simple approach for reconfiguration. In order to make the T-shaped antenna frequency reconfigurable, we integrated Switches in specific positions. The location of the switches is determined following a study of the distribution of the surface currents of the suggested antenna....

A Microgrid is a subset of smart grid, a small-scale electrical system powered with renewable energy resources that can operate either in a connected or a disconnected mode to/from the main grid. Given that universities are very important electricity consumers, using an academic Microgrid will solve many problems regarding energy usage[1]. The purp...

In this paper, we propose a novel interconnection technique for a flip-chip quad flat no-lead (FC QFN) package which can decrease the amount of the transmission line (TL) phase shift. The RF die inputs and outputs (I/O) are connected to the package lead fingers by a small size, 1000 µm length, microstrip line having a gap capacitor consisting of st...

Cloud computing cyber security is a subject that has been in top flight for a long period and even in near future. However, cloud computing permit to stock up a huge number of data in the cloud stockage, and allow the user to pay per utilization from anywhere via any terminal equipment. Among the major issues related to Cloud Computing security, we...

We presented an overview of the state-of-the-art of cloud computing security which covers its essential challenges through the main different cyber-security threats, the main different approaches, algorithms and techniques developed to address them, as well as the open problems which define the research directions in this area. The bottom line is t...

A Novell compact multiband broadside coupled split ring resonator (BC-SRR) metamaterial structure fractal loaded slot antenna for 4G and other wireless systems is presented in this article. The radiating elements of the proposed antenna are composed of a Perturbed Sierpinski carpet fractal slot printed on the lower face of an FR4 substrate material...

This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems. The resulting complexity research due to the emergence of new properties and spatio-temporal interactions among a large number of system elements - and between the system and its environment - is the primary focus of thi...