The interest in sustainability and energy efficiency is constantly increasing, and the noticeable effects of climate change and rising energy prices are fueling this development. The residential sector is one of the most energy-intensive sectors and plays an important role in shaping future energy consumption. In this context, modeling has been extensively employed to identify relative key drivers, and to evaluate the impact of different strategies to reduce energy consumption and emissions. This article presents a detailed literature review relative to modeling approaches and techniques in residential energy use, including case studies to assess and predict the energy consumption patterns of the sector. The purpose of this article is not only to review the research to date in this field, but to also identify the possible challenges and opportunities. Mobility, electrical devices, cooling and heating systems, and energy storage and energy production technologies will be the subject of the presented research. Furthermore, the energy upgrades of buildings, their energy classification, as well as the energy labels of the electric appliances will be discussed. Previous research provided valuable insights into the application of modeling techniques to address the complexities of residential energy consumption. This paper offers a thorough resource for researchers, stakeholders, and other parties interested in promoting sustainable energy practices. The information gathered can contribute to the development of effective strategies for reducing energy use, facilitating energy-efficient renovations, and helping to promote a greener and more sustainable future in the residential domain.

In energy systems’ economic models, people’s behaviour is often underestimated, and they are generally unaware of how habits impact energy efficiency. Improving efficiency is challenging, and recommendations alone may not be sufficient. Changing behaviour requires understanding the direct impact of needs and habits on energy efficiency. This research introduces a methodology that retrieves human expert knowledge from four key aspects of the current energy transition: everyday appliances, buildings, mobility, flexibility, and energy efficiency. The aim is to examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and human behaviour, gaining a deeper understanding of the links among the factors that drive final energy consumers to change habits through the adoption of energy-saving measures. Working in collaboration with expert panels, this study provides a methodology for extracting expert human knowledge based on a set of future energy transition scenarios aligned with the achievement of the Paris Agreement, a taxonomy of 32 factors that have a strong influence on households’ investment decisions, and the results of a survey that characterises the European population through the 32-factor taxonomy and some socioeconomic conditions. In addition, the survey included a sample of the Latin American population to analyse how socioeconomic conditions (region, education, gender, etc.) influence the prioritisation of these factors. We discuss the high priority given to competence and autonomy over financial factors by inhabitants of the European Union residential sector. We provide an analysis of the factors through which other similar projects are focused and on which we converge. In addition, we contribute by presenting the hierarchy of priorities assigned by people. This highlights the importance for policymakers to take these aspects seriously when implementing energy policy interventions that go beyond purely financial measures and fiscal incentives.

The explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) demands security mechanisms that adapt to emerging threats. Telemetry meets this need by fusing federated learning, explainable AI, and privacy-preserving analytics into a multi-layer monitoring framework. Lightweight agents such as r-Monitoring impose only 0.27 % CPU overhead at device level, while the BACON federated anomaly detector safeguards system traffic. On a 21-sensor industrial robot, TELEMETRY's Nokia pipeline flagged subtle speed anomalies with 73% accuracy; within the NF-ToN-IoT corpus, BACON differentiated benign from malicious flows with 96% accuracy and markedly fewer false positives than signature baselines. The Misuse Detection Toolkit ensemble further achieved 97.7% validation accuracy across 50 training epochs, underscoring the framework's adaptability. Together, these layers cut detection latency and reduce on-device resource use, illustrating how ML-driven, federated monitoring can harden next-generation IoT deployments. Ongoing work explores graph-based analytics, adaptive models, and more scalable federation schemes.

The authors of the article examined the modern challenges involved in developing an access control system for smart factories, focusing on the creation of an integrated solution for monitoring and managing the information security of the Internet of Things (loT) through the integration of diverse tools and methods within a single system. In this paper, the information system is examined through the lens of system analysis, focusing on the interactions between the subjects and objects within the system. This perspective allows for an accurate assessment of the current state of obj ects, taking into account the system's architecture and its vulnerabilities, as well as the evolution of the system state over time. The approach proposed incorporates modern tools and software solutions, including intrusion detection systems (IDS), fuzzy testing, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and various machine learning (ML) techniques.