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Embedded iNtelligent COntrols for bUildings with Renewable generAtion and storaGE
Artemis 269354
3 years (Jun 2011 to May 2014)
Artemis 269354
3 years (Jun 2011 to May 2014)
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| Contact Person at CISTER: | Luis Miguel Pinho |
| Summary: | The ENCOURAGE project aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy use in buildings and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment. The desired energy savings will be achieved in three complementary ways. Firstly, by developing supervisory control strategies that will be able to coordinate larger subsystems (HVAC, lighting, renewable energy generation, thermal storage, etc) and orchestrate operation of the numerous devices in such systems. The energy use will be optimized as a trade-off between occupants comfort, energy costs and environmental impact while considering people‟s habits, weather conditions, characteristics of appliances, local generation and storage capacities and market conditions. Secondly, through an intelligent gateway with embedded logic supporting inter-building energy exchange. This brokerage agent will communicate directly with other buildings and local producers to negotiate possible use of the electricity produced locally in their premises. And thirdly, by developing novel virtual sub-metering technologies and event-based middleware applications that will support advanced monitoring and diagnostics concepts. Systematic performance monitoring will ensure the achieved savings are sustained over long period of time without being degraded by deteriorated performance of both mechanical equipment and the monitoring and control system itself. The primary application domains are non-residential buildings and campuses, but the project has relevancy also to residential buildings and neighbourhoods. This will be expressed through several demonstrators comprising public and private office buildings, campus buildings, and private homes. ENCOURAGE aims to achieve 20% of energy savings through the improved interoperability between various types of energy generation, consumption and storage devices; inter-building energy exchange; and systematic performance monitoring. |
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Conferences and Workshops
The ENCOURAGE ICT architecture for heterogeneous smart grids CISTER-TR-130403
Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Thibaut Le Guilly, Manuel Ramiro, Eduardo Faria, Lara Pérez Dueñas, Rodrigo Ferreira, Earl Gaylard, David Jorquera Cubas, Eammon Roarke, Daniel Lux, Sandra Scalari, Susanne Majlund Sørensen, Marta Gangolells, Luis Miguel Pinho, Arne Skou (11, Apr, 2013)
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IEEE EuroCon 2013, Zagreb, Croatia, 1-4 July 2013.
Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Thibaut Le Guilly, Manuel Ramiro, Eduardo Faria, Lara Pérez Dueñas, Rodrigo Ferreira, Earl Gaylard, David Jorquera Cubas, Eammon Roarke, Daniel Lux, Sandra Scalari, Susanne Majlund Sørensen, Marta Gangolells, Luis Miguel Pinho, Arne Skou (11, Apr, 2013)
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ENCOURAGE architecture: support for heterogeneous smart grids CISTER-TR-121101
Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Thibaut Le Guilly, Manuel Ramiro, Eduardo Faria, Lara Pérez Dueñas, Rodrigo Ferreira, Earl Gaylard, Francesc Pelegrin, Eammon Roarke, Daniel Lux, Sandra Scalari, Susanne Majlund Sørensen, Marta Gangolells, Luis Miguel Pinho, Arne Skou (9, Nov, 2012)
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IEEE International Energy Conference and Exhibition (ENERGYCON 2012), Industry Track.
Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Thibaut Le Guilly, Manuel Ramiro, Eduardo Faria, Lara Pérez Dueñas, Rodrigo Ferreira, Earl Gaylard, Francesc Pelegrin, Eammon Roarke, Daniel Lux, Sandra Scalari, Susanne Majlund Sørensen, Marta Gangolells, Luis Miguel Pinho, Arne Skou (9, Nov, 2012)
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QoS-enabled Middleware for Smart Grids HURRAY-TR-120711
Abdel Rahman Alkhawaja, Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Ricardo Garibay-Martínez (19, Jul, 2012)
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WIP Session of The 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2012)
Abdel Rahman Alkhawaja, Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano, Ricardo Garibay-Martínez (19, Jul, 2012)
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Message Oriented Middleware with QoS Support for Smart Grids HURRAY-TR-120709
Abdel Rahman Alkhawaja, Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano (17, Jul, 2012)
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InForum 2012 conference on Embedded Systems and Real Time.
Abdel Rahman Alkhawaja, Luis Lino Ferreira, Michele Albano (17, Jul, 2012)
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Parallel Real-time Support for Distributed Adaptive Embedded Applications HURRAY-TR-120101
Ricardo Garibay-Martínez, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luis Miguel Pinho (24, Jan, 2012)
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Poster in Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multi-Core Embedded Computing Platforms in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) Paris, France, January 23-25, 2012.
Ricardo Garibay-Martínez, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luis Miguel Pinho (24, Jan, 2012)
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