Tag: Smart grids

Activity monitoring to age safely in the digital era

In ā€œAgeing Safely in the Digital Era: A New Unobtrusive Activity Monitoring Framework Leveraging on Daily Interactions with Hand-Operated Appliancesā€ (Bousbiat, Leitner and Elmenreich 2022), we suggest a new interactive framework to unobtrusively monitor elderliesā€™ behavior based on their interaction with electrical appliances involved in their daily activities. Due to […]

Supporting the Grid with Dynamic Residential Load Scheduling

Demand response (DR) for smart grids intends to balance the required power demand with the available supply resources. This is especially important with an increased amount of renewable energy sources since for most of them the energy yield cannot be shifted in time. For example, photovoltaic systems will provide their […]

Workshop on future smart grids, renewables, electromobility

Interested on Smart Grid technologies, renewables integration, electromobility ?Ā  Then, plan to attend the Workshop on Future Smart Grid Technologies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, on 26-27 February 2018. The workshop has a great program covering: ICT for energy grids Integration of renewables Communication-control-monitoring technologies Electromobility and its impact […]

Power lines that transport data

Power Line Communication (PLC) uses electricity cables to transmit data. Andrea M. Tonello, professor at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, was interviewed by Katharina Tischler-Banfield. He tells us whether PLC represents the future of the Internet and whether it will revolutionise the transmission of data. The greatest advantage […]