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Estimate of carbon emissions is essential and crucial for an accurate and reasonable life-cycle assessment. Addressing the need for more research into integrating analysis of real-time and automatic recording of key indicators for a more accurate calculation and comparison, this paper aims to design a real-time recording model of these crucial indicators concerning the calculation and estimation of energy use and carbon emissions of buildings based on a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based system. The architecture of the RFID-based carbon emission recording\/tracking system, which contains four functional layers including data record layer, data collection\/update layer, data aggregation layer and data sharing\/backup layer, is presented. Each of these layers is formed by RFID or network devices and sub-systems that operate at a specific level. In the end, a proof-of-concept system is developed to illustrate the implementation of the proposed architecture and demonstrate the feasibility of the design. This study would provide the technical solution for real-time recording system of building carbon emissions and thus is of great significance and importance to improve urban sustainability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140508465","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,14]],"date-time":"2014-05-14T11:22:27Z","timestamp":1400066547000},"page":"8465-8484","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Real-Time Recording Model of Key Indicators for Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions of Sustainable Buildings"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Weiwei","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, No.2 Si Pai Building, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huanjia","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, N.3.28, Haslegrave Building, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Chew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,  639798, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yanhong","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of International Pharmaceutical Business, China Pharmaceutical University,  Nanjing 211198, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiming","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, No.2 Si Pai Building, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"230","DOI":"10.1016\/j.enbuild.2009.08.018","article-title":"Life cycle primary energy use and carbon emission of an eight-storey wood-framed apartment building","volume":"42","author":"Gustavsson","year":"2010","journal-title":"Energy Build."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"201","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecocom.2011.02.003","article-title":"Carbon emissions in the life cycle of urban building system in China\u2014a case study of residential buildings","volume":"8","author":"You","year":"2011","journal-title":"Ecol. 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