• A Methodology for Buildings Access to Solar Radiation in Sustainable Cities 

      Fernández-Ahumada, Luis Manuel; Ramírez Faz, José; López Luque, Rafael; Márquez García, Álvaro; Varo-Martínez, Marta (MDPI, 2019)
      The growing need to improve the environmental and energy sustainability of buildings involves the use of solar radiation incident on their surfaces. However, in cities, this task is complicated due to the constructive ...
    • A novel backtracking approach for two-axis solar PV tracking plants 

      Fernández-Ahumada, Luis Manuel; Ramírez Faz, José; López Luque, Rafael; Varo-Martínez, Marta; Moreno-García, Isabel; Casares de la Torre, Francisco José (Elsevier, 2020)
      Solar tracking is a technique required to increase energy production in multiple photovoltaic (PV) facilities. In these plants, during low-elevation solar angle hours, shadows appear between the collectors causing a dramatic ...
    • Proposal for the Design of Monitoring and Operating Irrigation Networks Based on IoT, Cloud Computing and Free Hardware Technologies 

      Fernández-Ahumada, Luis Manuel; Ramírez Faz, José; Torres Romero, Marcos; López Luque, Rafael (MDPI, 2019)
      In recent decades, considerable efforts have been devoted to process automation in agriculture. Regarding irrigation systems, this demand has found several difficulties, including the lack of communication networks and the ...