Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on March 5, 2010 under prototype | 
From March 4 – 5, 2010 the consortium met for the third time at the Marriot Hotel in Linz / Austria.
On the first day we started off with a brief update about the efforts since the last meeting. Slobodanka and Vikash from FTW gave an update on the policy modelling module which will be based on OWL using a Pellet reasoner to execute the inferences. The two Vladimirs from E-Smart presented the database model for the collected sensor data and the new GUI of the Zigbee configuration tool. Mirna from E-Smart gave an impressive talk on tarif modells in the electricity market and a rough ontological model to couple electricity consumption to procinbg information. The major part of the day was dedicated to hands on sessions in advancing the smart metering infrastructure. eSYS, E-Smart and EZAN finally managed to get the virtual machine running on the UCB and are now working on the direct execution of semantic codes within the JVM running on the Gibraltar hardware appliances.
The second day started off with invited presentations from Andreas Langegger from the University of Vienna and Erwin Mayer and Günter Rosenauer from Energie AG. Andreas gave a lightining talk on the current state of the Semantic Web and its potential benefits for managing energy data. Günter Rosenauer from Energie AG presented first results from their running project AMIS, a testbed of 15.000 smart meters being operated in Upper Austria. Erwin Mayer gave a talk about the electricity trading market and the variance in electricity value during a day. The afternoon session was dedicated to lots of hands on practice advancing on integration issues for the demonstrator that will be available be June.
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on January 28, 2010 under miscellaneous, regulation |
During our f2f-meeting in Belgrade from December 17 – 18, 2010 the Serbian TV station eTV produced a feature about the project and its impact on the Serbian energy market. Enjoy (in Serbian language)!
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on January 14, 2010 under architecture, prototype |
Here is a rough outline of the SeSaMe architecture.
We believe that UCB should be represented as an unique device. We are proposing this, based on State-Of-The-Art from the area of smart metering and home automation, as well as scenarios and business cases presented in this area. UCB architecture should be divided into three layers: Security and Internet communication, Services and Applications and HAN communication. According to our perspective, architecture of UCB should look like the draft on the Figure below.
Particular functions of this complex architecture, in the context of the SESAME project, could be implemented on different physical devices. However, all this devices should communicate and operate as unique workstation.
Major changes to the previous architecture proposals regard to the way of real-time measurement of electricity consumption. We examined, very carefully, the problem of intensive reading of electricity consumption data from electric smart meter and we came to the conclusion that it is much more economical and efficient to acquire the information from electricity smart plugs. Beside that, with electricity smart plugs make it possible obtain information of consumption for every particular device. However, periodically collected data from smart plagues should be compared and scaled with data read from smart meter. This way, we will obtain consumption data most efficiently, and also provide mechanisms for their validation, with respect to the smart meter’s more sophisticated method and results of measurement. Data from the smart meter would be gathered indirectly from the smart-concentrator. On the other hand smart-concentrators could be used in more sophisticated scenarios for peak load management.
Security and Internet communication layer could be implemented on the Gibraltar device as illustrated in the next picture.
Service and Application layer could be implemented on any kind of embedded PC device including Gibraltar, Telecont or E-Smart service box. We would also advice to reconsider adding a smart display – touch screen, in the prototype architecture. Using smart display users could access UCB applications in more intuitive way.
Finally, HAN Communication layer could be developed on the EZAN Telecont platform. At the same time we are thinking of implementing Zigbee technology on the Han communication layer, as a channel of communication with electricity smart plugs.
Considering the proposed group of sensors and actuators, we think that we should retain a set of sensors, actuators and controllers established during the kick-off meeting. That means that it should minimally consist of: light, CO₂, heat and humidity, motion sensors, controllers of HVAC, lighting and switches for big home appliances e.g. wash machine, or temperature controller of refrigerator etc.
Posted by Anna Fensel on December 30, 2009 under prototype |
Michael Schwanzer, our Master thesis student at FTW and Technikum Wien, has been developing a GreenHomeChallenge game on Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/greenhomechallenge/
It is an interactive real-time game which you can play with friends and other people competing on whose virtual home is more energy efficient (in particular, creating, sharing and applying smart policies)!
You are kindly invited to play yourself, send feedback, and spread a word about the game to your “friends”.
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on December 28, 2009 under miscellaneous |
From December 17 – 18, 2009 we held our second project meeting in Belgrade. Frosty weather made our trip quite adventerous but did not hinder us to make some big conceptual leaps in our project goals (For details please refer to the post on the SeSaMe architecture.)
Enjoy some winter impressions from Belgrade.
Location of the eSmart headquarter. (Photo by Sergey Aleshin EZAN)
Orhodox church in Belgrade. (Photo by Sergey Aleshin EZAN)
Стадион Партизана – Stadion Partizana. The stadion was buildt 1949 named Stadion JNA. In socialist Yugoslavia under Tito it was the place for the anual celebration of “Day of Youth” on May 25 between the 50`s and 1987. Offering place for 55,000 people before the UEFA security regulations in 1998 came to effect, Partizan Stadion now has a capacity for 32,887. (Text & photo courtesy by Carmen Rueter.)
Музеј историје Југославије – Museum of Yugoslav History, Boticeva 6, opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10a.m.-6p.m. The museum is called “Tito Museum” by the locals and was founded in 1996 as a successor to the Memorial Centre “Josip Broz Tito” and the Museum of the Revolution of Yugoslav Nations and Ethnic Minorities. It`s collection illustrates Yugoslav History throughout 20th century with an accent on the life of Jozip Broz Tito. Among 200,000 items an awesome collection of traditional costumes can be found. The complex of three buildings is located in a 3.20 hectare park – just to add one more reason for it`s worth a visit. (Text & photo courtesy by Carmen Rueter.)
Војномедицинска академија – Military Medical Academy (MMA), often simply called VMA, is located in the Banjica neighbourhood of Belgrad. It was designed by the award-winning architects Colonel Josip Osojnik and Slobodan Nikolić in 1973. The construction was finished in 1981 and the hospital officially moved into a new building and began operations on January 1, 1982. (Text & photo courtesy by Carmen Rueter.)
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on November 20, 2009 under conferences & events, platforms & interest groups |
Coming up: Smart Metering Forum — 4th Conference: Towards smarter customers and a smarter grid: a leading strategic event for the UK energy industry
2nd & 3rd December 2009, Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London
Due to the popularity of this event, it has been moved to a larger venue. It will now take place at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel on 2nd and 3rd December 2009.
Who is speaking?
* Alistair Phillips Davies, Director of Energy Supply, Scottish and Southern Energy
* Charles Hendry, Shadow Energy Minister, Conservative Party
* Andrew Wright, Managing Director, Markets, Ofgem
* Don Leiper, Director, Energy Services, E.ON UK
* Derek Lickorish, former Chief Operating Officer, Customer Branch, EDF Energy & Chairman, Fuel Poverty Advisory Group
* Petter Allison, Director of Smart Metering, British Gas
* Chris Bennett, Future Transmission Network Manager, National Grid
* Finlay Macdonald, Advanced Metering Programme Leader, ScottishPower
* John Bird, Head of Sustainability, CE Electric
* Dr Gill Owen, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Business school
Network with senior figures from across the value chain
Delegates will be joining an ever increasing list of attendees from the energy suppliers, DNOs, the grid and a diverse blend of stakeholders spanning the depth and breadth of the smart metering supply chain. Click here to view the full list of attending companies:
http://marketforce.msgfocus.com/c/11N53t5XxSaPZE0Fn
What topics are going to be addressed?
* Outlining the role of industry, Government and Regulator in financing and delivering a future proof and interoperable national smart meter network
* Changing behaviour: understanding how to engage the customer through smart meters
* The role of the CCA: discussing design and implementation challenges
* What impact will smart metering have on retail supply markets?
* The role for DNOs in smart metering and a future smart grid
* Smart meters as a start point for the smart home: exploring future possibilities
Click here to view the full conference programme:
http://marketforce.msgfocus.com/c/11N55Lj8r81GhwWJO
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on under platforms & interest groups |
The national technology platform Smart Grids Austria bundles the interests of the stakeholders in the Austria energy sector when developing and deploying the next generation energy infrastructure. Their site offers lots of interesting information for download.
For more details go to their website.
Posted by Milan Stefanovic on October 14, 2009 under conferences & events |
On 06-08 of October 2010 there was a metering conference in Barcelona on which my colleague Vladimir Pejović and I as E-Smart delegates were attending together with over 3000 delegates (this number is increasing every year). I should say that this is very nice time of year to be in Barcelona…
The conference program was divided in 4 main tracks:
- Smart grids – from pilots to mass rollout,
- Communication, MDM systems and meter design
- Smart metering and climate
- Smart billing
Besides lectures, we had a chance to talk with companies who are leaders in different areas of smart metering. So, after these 3 conference days we heard about some lessons learnt from pilots in Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, etc.
We saw that Zigbee protocol for communication is today much more popular and accepted than last year. The Wireless M-Bus protocol is near to Zigbee, but PLC communication is still looking for its place because nobody found yet fast and reliable way for communication using this technology. Regarding standards, DLMS seems to found his way to become generally accepted standard. Speaking of standards, it was a few words about global standardization on different levels (meter interfaces, security, protocols for communication, minimal requirements for meters, concentrators, AMR software, etc). One of the projects for standardization is Open Meter Project (www.openmeter.com).
Also, in difference from last year conference, today Smart home and Home automation systems are very popular. The main aspects are “real-time data”, “IP addressing” and “Dashboards” for displaying data and indicators of consumption to the end customer. These dashboards can be accessed over displays at home, over laptop or any mobile device with Web access. Displayed data can contain current power load and consumption, averages, key indicators, even some predictions about future consumption and mechanisms to manually control home appliances. But, there are no advanced techniques for controlling these systems (for 3 days of conference, nobody mentioned semantics nor multi-objective reasoning). So, this is one more confirmation that SESAME project is far beyond the-state-of-the-art today.
For further information you can visit www.metering-europe.com.
Posted by Anna Fensel on October 9, 2009 under conferences & events |
FTW, the research center coordinating SESAME project, celebrates its 10 years anniversary!
The main date for celebration is October 12, and it will be distinguished by a high-profile event “Pathways to a Digital Future”.
SESAME team will have a poster and some promotional materials at the FTW’s booth dedicated to the Energy sector at the event’s exhibition area. Feel free to come around there and meet us any time between 10:00 and 17:30.
As another recent dissemination activity, SESAME poster paper has been a part of the 2nd Future Internet Symposium, 1-3 September, Berlin, Germany.
SESAME poster and flyer can be viewed here.
SESAME short paper for FIS’09 can be viewed in the publications section.
Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on October 1, 2009 under conferences & events |
On February 23 & 24, 2010 the 3rd Conference on Smart Metering in Germany takes place in Cologne.
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