ENERGY 2011, The First International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference

Editors:
Angelantonio Gnazzo, Telecom Italia - Torino, Italy
Ritwik Majumder, ABB AB / Corporate Research Center - Vasteras, Sweden

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-136-6

Location: Venice/Mestre, Italy

Dates: from May 22, 2011 to May 27, 2011

Articles: there are 33 articles

Modelling the Energy Efficiency of Microcell Base Stations
Margot Deruyck, Emmeric Tanghe, Wout Joseph, and Luc Martens
keywords: energy efficiency, green wireless access networks, microcell base station, power consumption

Energy-Aware Routing in the Cognitive Packet Network
Erol Gelenbe and Toktam Mahmoodi
keywords: Energy Efficiency, Routing Protocol, Cognitive Packet Network

SmallCAN - A Reliable, Low-Power and Low-Cost Distributed Embedded System for Energy Efficient Building Automation
Harald Schrom, Tobias Michaels, Steffen Stein, and Rolf Ernst
keywords: low-power; low-cost; building automation; embedded systems; smart grid; platform

ASIA: An Access Control, Session Invocation and Authorization Architecture for Home Energy Appliances in Smart Energy Grid Environments
Rainer Falk, Steffen Fries, and Hans-Joachim Hof
keywords: Smart Grid, Information Security, Cyber Security, Authentication, Authorization, Energy Automation, Smart Home, Discovery

Exploiting Demand Response in Web-based Energy-aware Smart Homes
Andreas Kamilaris and Andreas Pitsillides
keywords: Smart Home; Smart Meters; Electrical Appliances; Smart Grid; Demand Response; Web.

Upgrading a Medium Size Enterprise Power System with Wind and Solar Sources: Design, Financial and Environmental Perspectives
Thair Mahmoud, Daryoush Habibi, and Octavian Bass
keywords: medium size enterprise power systems, solar and wind energies integration with smartgrid, economic and environmental analyses of energy projects

A Review of Energy Efficiency Initiatives in Post-Secondary Educational Institutes
David Motta Cabrera and Hamidreza Zareipour
keywords: Energy efficiency, computer power management, educational institutes

Using Multitasking and SSD Disks for Optimising Computing Cluster Energy-Efficiency
Tapio Niemi, Jukka Kommeri, and Ari-Pekka Hameri
keywords: energy-efficiency; multitasking; solid-state disk (SDD); scientific computing.

Integrated Renewable Energy Infrastructure - Challenges And Opportunities
Mirek Piechowski and Anila Weerakkody
keywords: Reknewable energy; district energy; sustainable precincts; green building; rating schemes

Consumer Energy Management System: Contract Optimization using Forecasted Demand
Chi-Cheng Chuang, Jimi Y. C. Wen, and Ray-I Chang
keywords: Energy Management System, Load Forecasting, Contract Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization.

Monitoring IT Power Consumption in a Research Center: Seven Facts
Antonio Vetro', Luca Ardito, Maurizio Morisio, and Giuseppe Procaccianti
keywords: Green Computing, IT Energy Management, Electricity Meter, Data Analysis

Optimal Scheduling of Smart Homes Energy Consumption with Microgrid
Di Zhang, Lazaros G. Papageorgiou, Nouri J. Samsatli, and Nilay Shah
keywords: planning/scheduling; smart homes; microgrid; mixed-integer linear programming; optimization

Smard Grid Software Applications for Distribution Network Load Forecasting
Eugene Feinberg, Jun Fei, Janos Hajagos, and Richard Rossin
keywords: load forecasting, feeder, transformer, load pocket

Non-intrusive Appliance Monitoring Now: Effective Data, Generative Modelling and LETE
Chi-Cheng Chuang, Today J. T. Sung, Gu Yuan Lin, Jimi Y. C. Wen, and Ray-I Chang
keywords: Energy Management System, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, Appliance Monitoring

Energy Coupling Control of Telecommunication Network and Power Grid
Heiko Lehmann, Christoph Lange, and Andreas Gladisch
keywords: Green ICT, Smart Grid, energy storage facilities,telecommunication network

An Overview of Smart Grids in Brazil: Opportunities, Needs and Pilot Initiatives
Cesare Quinteiro Pica, Daniella Vieira, and Gabriel Dettogni
keywords: Smart Grid; Research and development; Pilot Initiatives; Regulatory demands.

Smart Beijing: Correlation of Urban Electrical Energy Consumption with Urban Environmental Sensing for Optimizing Distribution Planning
Yong Ding, Wenzhu Zhang, Takashi Miyaki, Till Riedel, Lin Zhang, and Michael Beigl
keywords: electrical energy consumption; two-layer approach; middleware; correlation analysis

Synchronisation Challenges within Future Smart Grid Infrastructure
Jonathan Shannon, Hugh Melvin, Ronan O hOgartaigh, and Antonio Ruzzelli
keywords: 802.11, NTP, PTP, Synchronisation, WSN

Synchronization Issues for Smart Grids
Peter Corcoran and Hugh Melvin
keywords: smart grid, synchronization, analog control, clock skew, standards IEEE 1588, IEC 61850

Developing Methods for the Detection of High Impedance Faults in Distribution
Grzegorz Swirszcz, Tomasz Nowicki, and Mark Yao
keywords: Keywords-High Impedance Fault; PMU; sensors; time series;experiments;

Sensors and IEDs Required by Smart Distribution Applications
Francisc Zavoda
keywords: DA (Distribution Automation); VVC (Volt & VAR Control); FL (Fault Location); PQ (Power Quality); monitoring; intelligent meters, control; accuracy;

BER Performance of Binary Transmitted Signal for Power Line Communication under Nakagami-like Background Noise
Youngsun Kim, Yong-Hwa Kim, Hui-Myoung Oh, and Sungsoo Choi
keywords: Power Line Communication; Background Noise; Nakagami Distribution; Bit Error Rate Performance

A Systems Approach to the Smart Grid
Saraansh Dave, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, and Mike Yearworth
keywords: Systems Thinking; Agent-Based Modelling; Smart Grids

MAC Performance Evaluation in Low Voltage PLC Networks
Mehdi Korki, Hai Le Vu, Chuan Heng Foh, Xiao Lu, and Nasser Hosseinzadeh
keywords: Low voltage power line communication; medium access control protocol; performance evaluation; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Degrees of Freedom in Information Sharing on a Greener and Smarter Grid
Kristian Helmholt and Gerben Broenink
keywords: Smart grid; information sharing; privacy

Frequency response from electric vehicales
Jianzhing Wu, Janaka Ekanayake, and Kamalanath Samarakoon
keywords: Frequency response, Electrical vehicles, Smart meter, Virtual power plant, Power system inertia

Privacy vs. Pricing for Smart Grids
Stojan Z. Denic, Georgios Kalogridis, and Zhong Fan
keywords: Smart grid privacy; pricing

Optimal Control of Residential Energy Storage Under Price Fluctuations
Peter Van de Ven, Nidhi Hegde, Laurent Massoulie, and Theodoros Salonidis
keywords: Battery storage, dynamic pricing, dynamic programming, energy storage, threshold policy

Satisfiability of Elastic Demand in the Smart Grid
Jean-Yves Le Boudec and Dan-Cristian Tomozei
keywords: Dynamical Systems, Smart Grids, Elastic Demand, Macroscopic Model, Stability

Energy-aware Data Stream Management
Maik Thiele and Woflgang Lehner
keywords: Data stream management; Energy-awareness, Synopses, Anytime Algorithm

Ubiquitous Smart Grid Control Solution based on a Next Generation Network as Integration Platform
Michael Massoth, Robin Acker, Nicolas Buchmann, Thorsten Fugmann, Christopher Knoell, and Maximilian Porzelt
keywords: KNX; Home Automation; Next Generation Network; Presence Service; SIP

Controlling a group of microCHPs: planning and realization
Maurice Bosman, Vincent Bakker, Albert Molderink, Johann Hurink, and Gerard Smit
keywords: column generation, scheduling

Stability Analysis for Multiple Voltage Source Converters Connected at a Bus
Arindam Ghosh, Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, and Firuz Zare
keywords: Voltage source converters, autonomous operation, linear quadratic control, stability analysis.