ASI’s 4th The Smart Metering Forum

Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on November 20, 2009 under conferences & events, platforms & interest groups | Be the First to Comment

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

SEmantic SmArt Metering: Enablers for Energy Efficiency

Posted by Tassilo Pellegrini on September 15, 2009 under miscellaneous | Be the First to Comment

From 14th to 15th of September 2009 we held our kick off meeting at FTW Vienna for our Smart Matering project called SeSaMe. This acronym stands for SEmantic SmArt Metering and adresses the use of computational semantics to improve energy consumption in terms of efficiency and personal awareness.

The high-level societal goal of the project SeSaMe is to facilitate home owners or building managers (also referred to as users or end-customers) in saving energy within their environments and in optimizing their energy costs, while actively controlling and maintaining their preferred quality of living. Therefore an international consortium of five partners was formed bringing together various competencies and fields of expertise.

For the end-customers the project will design novel tools which, on the one hand, support creation and maintenance of policies describing preferences in energy use (e.g., green energy, vs. gray energy), and describing rules in devices’ control, and on the other hand in-tegrate policy-based reasoning, and actuation of appliances. For this purpose semantic modeling, SOA-based design and multi-objective reasoning methods will be used.
In addition, targeting energy providers and grid operators, the project will design a semantic-enabled SOA-based foundation for a new type of information services for interaction with end customers: the Energy Information Services shall automatically channel relevant energy information (e.g., pricing) over the Internet into the user policy framework to be further used in automatic reasoning; the Energy Optimization Services enable users to delegate their control over the environment (switching on/off of some devices, or configuring actuators), though under the constraints of their policies, to the energy supplier, so as to achieve higher level of energy optimization.

We will keep you updated about future developments in the project. Stay tuned!