A Review on Sustainable Product Design, Marketing Strategies and Conscious Consumption of Bamboo Lifestyle Products

Conscious consumption is a trend that is here to stay since consumers are becoming more aware of their purchasing decision and its impact on their health & environment. To sustain in the market on the move towards sustainability and meet the demands, companies need to re-examine their footprints and incorporate green practices in their products and organization. Using eco-friendly material & processes is one of the remedies to come up with this, and bamboo is one of the most versatile, green and renewable natural resources on planet earth. Traditionally bamboo has been exploited to a large extent but cutting-edge options available for bamboo are still limited and have a scope of indulging fully in the lifestyle of people in India. The global market size of bamboo was valued at UED 53.28 billion in 2020, and it is expected to grow at compound annual growth rate of 5.7% from 2022 to 2028. There is increasing demand for sustainable construction, and furniture and handicraft products also have considerable weightage. Manny brands and craft clusters of bamboo are realizing and promoting this green quotient of bamboo to the market to attract the eco-conscious audience and trying to cope up with the advancement of sustainability, like certifications of being a green organisation. Despite the exceptional qualities of bamboo, it is considered as a marginalized material due to low production rate, high competition with the non-eco-friendly or cheaper alternatives, aesthetics and marketing gaps. There is a gap between willingness to purchase and an actual purchase when it comes to the sustainable products and marketing plays a major role in conversions. The main purpose of the research is to study and understand the product, craft, design, production processes and marketing practices of bamboo lifestyle products and how conscious consumption patterns influence the bamboo products and the industry in relevance to the sustainability. Exploratory research method was applied with the literature survey and reviewing of the research papers from the peer reviewed journals. They were classified and reviewed based on the areas relevant to the bamboo products. The research outcome revealed the research gaps and the results were discussed and presented with the perspectives of product design, conscious consumption and marketing strategies in relevant to the sustainability of bamboo lifestyle products.

Design and Fuel Consumption Optimization for a Bio-Inspired Semi-floating Hybrid Vehicle

Based on a bionic concept and combing air-cushion techniques and track driving mechanisms, a novel semi-floating hybrid concept vehicle is proposed to meet the transportation requirements on soft terrain. First, the vehicle scheme and its improved duel-spring flexible suspension design are described. Then, its fuel consumption model is proposed accordingly with respect to two vehicle operating parameters. Aiming at minimizing the fuel consumption, two Genetic Algorithms （GAs） are designed and implemented. For the initial one （GA-1）, despite getting an acceptable result, there still existed some problems in its optimiza- tion process. Based on an analysis of the defects of GA-1, an improved algorithm GA-2 was developed whose effectiveness and stability were embodied in the optimization process and results. The proposed design scheme and optimization approaches can provide valuable references for this new kind of vehicle with industry, military or scientific exploitations, etc. promising applications in the areas of agriculture, petroleum industry, military or scientific explaitations, etc.

Design of low-energy building and energy consumption analyses

In China,a new "Design standard for energy efficiency of residential buildings (for cold region)" was introduced in 2006. In this new standard,more high level insulation of the building envelope is required,yearly energy requirement for heating must be less than 55 kWh/(m2·a)(regarded as a low-energy house). The new attempt was carried out in the process of architecture design with an evaluation on energy consumption of the building. The design plan was brought forward and compared. PHPP software from German was applied to calculate energy consumption of the passive residential building. The optimum design planning was discussed and model of passive house suited to China's national conditions were attempted. The compactness,solar air collector and the window-wall ratio have essential influence on the energy consumption of buildings. The annual heat demands for the buildings with the window-wall ratio 0.35 and 0.50 are 48 kWh/(m2·a) and 46 kWh/(m2·a),respectively. The yearly auxiliary heat of building with the wall-mounted solar air collectors and the window-wall ratio 0.35 is just 4.8 kWh/(m2·a).

Design of Low-Power Data Logger of Deep Sea for Long-Term Field Observation

This paper describes the implementation of a data logger for the real-time in-situ monitoring of hydrothermal systems. A compact mechanical structure ensures the security and reliability of data logger when used under deep sea. The data logger is a battery powered instrument, which can connect chemical sensors （pH electrode, H2S electrode, H2 electrode） and temperature sensors. In order to achieve major energy savings, dynamic power management is implemented in hardware design and software design. The working current of the data logger in idle mode and active mode is 15 μA and 1.44 mA respectively, which greatly extends the working time of battery. The data logger has been successftdly tested in the first Sino-American Cooperative Deep Submergence Project from August 13 to September 3, 2005.

Low-power emerging memristive designs towards secure hardware systems for applications in internet of things

Emerging memristive devices offer enormous advantages for applications such as non-volatile memories and inmemory computing(IMC),but there is a rising interest in using memristive technologies for security applications in the era of internet of things(IoT).In this review article,for achieving secure hardware systems in IoT,lowpower design techniques based on emerging memristive technology for hardware security primitives/systems are presented.By reviewing the state-of-the-art in three highlighted memristive application areas,i.e.memristive non-volatile memory,memristive reconfigurable logic computing and memristive artificial intelligent computing,their application-level impacts on the novel implementations of secret key generation,crypto functions and machine learning attacks are explored,respectively.For the low-power security applications in IoT,it is essential to understand how to best realize cryptographic circuitry using memristive circuitries,and to assess the implications of memristive crypto implementations on security and to develop novel computing paradigms that will enhance their security.This review article aims to help researchers to explore security solutions,to analyze new possible threats and to develop corresponding protections for the secure hardware systems based on low-cost memristive circuit designs.

Simplified prediction model for lighting energy consumption in office building scheme design

At the scheme design stage,the potential of daylighting is significant due to the saving for electric lighting use. There are few simple tools for architects to optimize the daylighting design. Therefore,it is useful to develop a design guideline related to the evaluation of lighting energy saving potential and sunlight design strategies. This paper analyzes the impacts of different artificial lighting control methods and design parameters on daylighting. A direct correlation between lighting energy consumption and parameters such as orientations,window to wall ratio (WWR) and perimeter depth is established. A simplified prediction model is proposed to estimate lighting energy consumption with the given perimeter depth,WWR,and window transparency. Validation of the model is carried out compared with detailed lighting simulation software for an office building. After the variation analysis for these parameters,design advises for the daylighting design at scheme design phase are summarized.

Low-Power Design of Ethernet Data Transmission

For the reliability and power consumption issues of Ethernet data transmission based on the field programmable gate array （FPGA）, a low-power consumption design method is proposed, which is suitable for FPGA implementation. To reduce the dynamic power consumption of integrated circuit （IC） design, the proposed method adopts the dynamic control of the clock frequency. For most of the time, when the port is in the idle state or lower-rate state, users can reduce or even turn off the reading clock frequency and reduce the clock flip frequency in order to reduce the dynamic power consumption. When the receiving rate is high, the reading clock frequency will be improved timely to ensure that no data will lost. Simulated and verified by Modelsim, the proposed method can dynamically control the clock frequency, including the dynamic switching of high-speed and low-speed clock flip rates, or stop of the clock flip.

DHW Design Flow Rates and Consumption Profiles in Educational, Office Buildings and Shopping Centres

The paper gives a thorough survey of the studies of different authors in the field of domestic hot water (DHW) consumption and consumption profiles. It presents an overview of the research done into DHW by the Tallinn University of Technology. Working out on the basis of investigations has been new empirical formulas for determining design flow rates for schools, kindergartens, office buildings and shopping centres. DHW consumption profiles of typical buildings are presented. Comparisons are given on the determination of DHW design flow rates by the standard EVS 835, the EN 806-3 and the recommended formulas. The latter makes it possible to considerably decrease the design flow rates which in turn enables to deminish the load of the equipment, to improve the quality of control and to decrease the diameters of the pipes of the district heating network and the losses of heat in them.

Smart Building Design to Improve the Energy Consumption at an Office Room

Buildings are becoming smarter as a result of a variety of advanced technologies that enable energy management, optimal space utilization, and smart surveillance for safety, among other things. Energy-efficient smart building ideas and execution are of great interest and top priority due to the building’s occupants’ misused and high-power consumption. This paper addresses the design and execution of an energy management system that includes a solar power system for generating power for the building’s needs and a PIR-based automation system for efficient power use. This project was carried out at the Military Technological College (MTC) in Muscat, in the system engineering department’s offices. This project seeks to generate power for the building’s energy needs using solar photovoltaic panels and reduce energy consumption within the office using a PIR-based automation system. The results demonstrate that after the breakeven point (the time it takes to recoup the initial investment), it can provide power to the building for another 17 years. The calculations and practical results presented in this study approve that the system is extremely helpful.

Discussion on the Intelligent Design of Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Passive Buildings

With the continuous development of science and technology and the gradual improvement of modem building technology, people pay more and more attention to the introduction of advanced technology in architectural design, such as the application of intelligent technology. With the increasingly severe environmental situation, people are increasingly demanding the environmental performance and green performance of buildings. The establishment of ultra-low energy consumption passive buildings has become one of the key construction contents of construction projects. This paper mainly analyzes the design points and architectural forms of related buildings from the perspective of intelligent control.

No Power Consumption Design of a New-style Mechanical Unit Bathroom

The paper is based on the fact of serious water shortage and the coming of a LC （ low carbon ） lifestyle. The design was guided by demand design and aided by Fluent simulation, it break the normal method of water sav- ing and works out a set of a no power consumption new system of house water saving. The paper makes a detailed presentation of the design ideas and process of a system core ; the simulation result can show the three-dimensional flow and pressure distribution of flow in a system core factuaUy. Consequently, the simulation demonstrates the feasibility and practical applicability of the design.

An artificial synapse by superlattice-like phase-change material for low-power brain-inspired computing

Phase-change material(PCM)is generating widespread interest as a new candidate for artificial synapses in bioinspired computer systems.However,the amorphization process of PCM devices tends to be abrupt,unlike continuous synaptic depression.The relatively large power consumption and poor analog behavior of PCM devices greatly limit their applications.Here,we fabricate a GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattice-like PCM device which allows a progressive RESET process.Our devices feature low-power consumption operation and potential high-density integration,which can effectively simulate biological synaptic characteristics.The programming energy can be further reduced by properly selecting the resistance range and operating method.The fabricated devices are implemented in both artificial neural networks(ANN)and convolutional neural network(CNN)simulations,demonstrating high accuracy in brain-like pattern recognition.

Reducing Power and Energy Consumption of Nonvolatile Microcontrollers with Transparent On-Chip Instruction Cache

Demands for low-energy microcontrollers have been increasing in recent years. Since most microcontrollers achieve user programmability by integrating nonvolatile (NV) memories such as flash memories for storing their programs, the large power consumption required in accessing an NV memory has become a major problem. This problem becomes critical when the power supply voltage of NV microcontrollers is decreased. We can solve this problem by introducing an instruction cache, thus reducing the access frequency of the NV memory. Unlike general-purpose microprocessors, microcontrollers used for real-time applications in embedded systems must accurately calculate program execution time prior to its execution. Therefore, we introduce a “transparent” instruction cache, which does not change the existing NV microcontroller’s cycle-level execution time, for reducing power and energy consumption, but not for improving the processing speed. We have conducted detailed microar chitecture design based on the architecture of a major industrial microcontroller, and we evaluated power and energy consumption for several benchmark programs. Our evaluation shows that the proposed instruction cache can successfully reduce energy consumption in a fairly wide range of practical NV microcontroller configurations.

Resistive switching characteristic and uniformity of low-power HfO_x-based resistive random access memory with the BN insertion layer

In this letter,the Ta/HfO/BN/TiN resistive switching devices are fabricated and they exhibit low power consumption and high uniformity each.The reset current is reduced for the HfO/BN bilayer device compared with that for the Ta/HfO/TiN structure.Furthermore,the reset current decreases with increasing BN thickness.The HfOlayer is a dominating switching layer,while the low-permittivity and high-resistivity BN layer acts as a barrier of electrons injection into TiN electrode.The current conduction mechanism of low resistance state in the HfO/BN bilayer device is space-chargelimited current(SCLC),while it is Ohmic conduction in the HfOdevice.

山区铁路工程节能设计关键要素识别研究

为从设计源头减少山区铁路工程能源消耗总量、优化能源消费结构,充分发挥铁路绿色发展优势,开展山区铁路工程节能研究,识别山区铁路工程节能设计关键要素非常重要。首先,分析山区铁路工程能源消耗,梳理山区铁路线路、桥梁、隧道等重点工程的节能要点。在此基础上,提取山区铁路工程节能设计要素和能源消耗要素,并根据各要素属性特点,明确其量化指标,建立山区铁路工程−能源消耗要素及指标体系。其次,结合CRITIC-熵权法与C-OWA算子法构建“山区铁路工程−能源消耗”双层复杂网络模型,依次确定各要素节点重要度、节点间影响强度和节点综合重要度,用以识别山区铁路工程节能设计关键要素。最后,以某山区重大铁路工程某标段为例,验证方法模型并识别出该标段影响施工阶段的节能设计关键要素为:隧道作业设备选型、隧道出渣控制、隧道通风方式选择;影响运营阶段的节能设计关键要素为:曲线半径设置、线路纵坡设置、线路坡度设置、节能坡设置、客站供热设计、客站体形设计。经验证,构建的山区铁路工程−能源消耗要素及指标体系符合山区铁路工程特点,“山区铁路工程−能源消耗”复杂网络模型具有良好的适用性,识别出的节能设计关键要素及其优化建议可为山区铁路工程节能设计提供参考。

基于数字孪生模型的数字化电网能耗自动监测系统研究

当前使用的数字化电网中,存在感知终端种类较多,对于传统的能耗自动监测系统来说获取的数据传输实时性不足,导致监测结果出现偏差,为此设计一种基于数字孪生模型的数字化电网能耗自动监测系统。系统主要从硬件和软件两方面进行设计:在硬件设计中,根据不同的应用层次,设计系统的总体架构。主要对硬件中的无线通信网络进行搭建,选择基于LoRa无线通信技术的RTU设备作为通信主体。设计LoRa无线开关电路,实现ZigBee设备之间的无线数据传输和交换;软件设计中,设计能耗数据采集主线程,分析数字孪生模型映射交互关系,基于数字孪生模型与实际运行工况之间的映射关系实现能耗指标实时监测。实验结果表明,与传统系统相比,设计得到的检测结果与实际的能耗情况更加相符。

存储体编译和布局协同的片上缓存设计方法

为了提高片上缓存的速度、降低面积和功耗,提出了一种存储体编译和布局协同的片上缓存设计方法。该方法基于存储体在芯片上的不同空间位置预估该存储体的时序余量,分别采用拆分/合并、尺寸调整、阈值替换和长宽比变形等多种配置参数穷举组合进行存储体编译,根据时序余量选择最优的静态随机存取存储器存储体编译配置。将该方法与现有的物理设计步骤集成为一个完整的设计流程。实验结果表明,该方法能够降低约9.9%的功耗,同时缩短7.5%的关键路径延时。

基于购买心理的包装设计分析与教学研究

本文围绕消费者在消费决策中的心理行为进行探讨,分析购买心理与消费文化的关系,分类整合消费者需求,探讨包装设计与购买行为之间的内在联系,并对当代产品消费文化的现象,以及未来消费结构与创意性文化消费之间的相似性关系进行论述。从包装多元化呈现的角度,分析包装形态差异、设计风格所导致的消费认知差异,同时对消费主体的异质性与感知效用对消费行为的影响进行分析。剖析当前包装设计教学存在的问题,提出针对性的教学方法,旨在完善教学结构,培养学生洞悉消费者心理,从而创造具有市场竞争力的包装设计。

造纸机能耗优化模型设计及其计算机部署

为降低造纸机干燥部在运行过程中的能量消耗,节约造纸企业的生产成本,采集造纸机干燥部运行状态数据并通过调整异常值、滤波分析等手段对数据进行预处理。在此基础上,对预处理数据进行单变量分析,进而提取出与目标变量相关的特征变量,并采用随机森林法建立造纸机能耗优化模型。为验证造纸机能耗优化模型的实用性,为该模型建立了一套基于数据库和服务器技术的干燥部能耗优化系统,展示了该系统的客户端操作界面设计效果。根据系统显示的分析结果可知,造纸机能耗优化模型能够有效降低造纸企业的吨纸消耗成本。