{"title":"Overview of socio-economic issues for smart grids development","authors":"Simona Bigerna, C. Bollino, Silvia Micheli","doi":"10.5220/0005477402710276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005477402710276","url":null,"abstract":"The electrical world system is experiencing many challenges, including the increasing presence of renewable energy sources characterized by high variability, the call for actions to mitigate climate change, the need to restructure the infrastructure already aged and then the development of smart grids. Smart grid projects have been launched in various countries around the world. The transition to the smart grid is affecting primarily the European Union and the United States, but also emerging markets such as China and India are strongly investing in the smart grids. In this paper we analyze the socio-economic aspects that are among the key variables towards the feasibility of smart grid projects. Construction of new infrastructures generally rises acceptance problems. Social acceptance of consumers is important for the adoption of new technologies. We advocate that multidisciplinary cooperation is needed to develop scientific research on smart grids.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128188057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-resource optimized smart management of urban energy infrastructures for improving smart city energy efficiency","authors":"M. Bertoncini","doi":"10.5220/0005499001070114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005499001070114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an innovative conceptual, technological and business framework for an energy-centred multi-resource optimized hub aimed at smart city infrastructure improved integration and improved energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprints. Early results show a cost-effective operation for the integration hub, as well as a 30% smart city/district energy efficiency overall increase when a synergistic operation management is carried out for those resource supply infrastructures which are integrated through the implemented hubs. Two major technological implementations have been presented and their current state of implementation has been discussed, the first one aimed at integrating smart electricity grid with hydrogen mobility infrastructure, while the latter one refers to a smart data centre hub interfacing with smart energy (both power and heat) grids and with telco networks.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132141913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the heart of intelligent buildings: Occupants practices facing automation","authors":"Amélie Coulbaut-Lazzarini, Guillaume Bailly","doi":"10.5220/0005408300170025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005408300170025","url":null,"abstract":"In a changing world, with more and more people living in urban areas and more and more energy needs, managing energy consumption becomes essential. This papers focuses on energy management in tertiary buildings, and more precisely on behaviour and daily practices from occupants of these buildings. It will firstly show what are the required uses, with dedicated areas, and the place of automation. It will then try to explain what are the real practices, in terms of space use, lighting use strategies and reactions towards automation. It will further show how involving people, with participatory design of services and systems for smart buildings, can motivate behaviour change. Lastly, the discussion will question the idea of collective identity and the balance between automation and human action.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116542529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parameters affecting the energy performance of the transport sector in smart cities","authors":"R. M.FernandaMantilla, A. N. Lee, J. Lastra","doi":"10.5220/0005489700830088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005489700830088","url":null,"abstract":"The energy requirements of cities' inhabitants have grown during the last decade. Recent studies justify the necessity of reducing the energy consumption/emissions in cities. The present paper gives an overview of the factors affecting the energy consumption of the citizens based on studies conducted in cities across the globe. The studies cover all the factors that affect citizens' mobility choice that at the end, affects in the same way their final energy consumption. The results of the review are being used to support authorities in mobility decisions in order to achieve a sustainable transport sector in smart cities.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114587921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing multi-microgrid with stochastic uncertainties including optimal PV allocation","authors":"H. Keshtkar, J. Solanki, S. K. Solanki","doi":"10.5220/0005452902410249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005452902410249","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the effects of Photovoltaic (PV) location on losses of the distribution system. The optimal location of PV is determined by using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) implemented in MATLAB-OpenDSS environment. IEEE 34-node test feeder is employed to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the developed method. Once the optimal location is determined the challenge still remains due to the uncertain behavior of the PV system. This effect along with other stochastic behaviors such as the uncertain output power of loads like Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) due to their stochastic charging and discharging, that of a wind generation unit due to the stochastic wind speed, and that of a solar generating source due to the stochastic illumination intensity, add problems like frequency oscillations in a microgrid. Hence, frequency control of a multi microgrid system is also addressed.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134017763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Malavazos, A. Papanikolaou, K. Tsatsakis, E. Hatzoplaki
{"title":"Combined visual comfort and energy efficiency through true personalization of automated lighting control","authors":"C. Malavazos, A. Papanikolaou, K. Tsatsakis, E. Hatzoplaki","doi":"10.5220/0005455602640270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005455602640270","url":null,"abstract":"Lighting consumes a sizable portion of the energy consumed in office buildings. Smart lighting control products exist in the market, but their penetration is limited and even installed systems see limited use. One of the main reasons is that they control lighting based on universal set-points agnostic to individual human preferences, thus hampering their comfort. This paper presents an automated lighting control framework which dynamically learns user lighting preferences, models human visual comfort and controls light dimming in a truly personalized manner so as to always control the comfort vs. energy efficiency trade-off. It effectively removes the most important complaint when using such systems — loss of comfort — and paves the way for their wider scale adoption in order to untap the energy reduction potential of commercial lighting.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"475 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133335387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power capping of CPU-GPU heterogeneous systems using power and performance models","authors":"K. Tsuzuku, Toshio Endo","doi":"10.5220/0005445102260233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005445102260233","url":null,"abstract":"Recent high performance computing (HPC) systems and supercomputers are built under strict power budgets and the limitation will be even severer. Thus power control is becoming more important, especially on the systems with accelerators such as GPUs, whose power consumption changes largely according to the characteristics of application programs. In this paper, we propose an efficient power capping technique for compute nodes with accelerators that supports dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS). We adopt a hybrid approach that consists of a static method and a dynamic method. By using a static method based on our power and performance model, we obtain optimal frequencies of GPUs and CPUs for the given application. Additionally, while the application is running, we adjust GPU frequency dynamically based on real-time power consumption. Through the performance evaluation on a compute node with a NVIDIA GPU, we demonstrate that our hybrid method successfully control the power consumption under a given power constraint better than simple methods, without aggravating energy-to-solution.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124743973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Iano, Ivan T. Lima, H. Loschi, T. C. Lustosa, O. S. Mesquita, Angelo Moretti
{"title":"Sustainable computing and communications: Internet broadband network of things applied to intelligent education","authors":"Y. Iano, Ivan T. Lima, H. Loschi, T. C. Lustosa, O. S. Mesquita, Angelo Moretti","doi":"10.5220/0005447303500356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005447303500356","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent cities may be defined as territories characterized by a high capacity of learning and innovation, comprising in its structure the “Internet of Things”, developing, therefore, the creativity of its population, its institutions of knowledge generation and its digital infrastructures to communication and management of the knowledge. This structure has a great performance in the role of digital inclusion, allowing the possibilities to integration, social well-being promotion (e-inclusion), supplementary education (internet toward software application with great capacity to education) or in distant (e-learning) and professional development. Multimedia communication, it may reach the most remote points and be available full-time, benefiting, in addition, students with deficiencies and walking limitation to go to school, or with special needs of differentiate teaching to educational development, creating and promoting the intelligent education. The main Target to develop this study is to present a solution to network service bandwidth, considers media world speed and projects the implementation of GPON (Gigabyte-capable Passive Optical Networks) technology in access optical networks in the Brazil. Presenting an outcome comparison analysis obtained from the project performed to implement in Holambra city, São Paulo, Brazil, relating to the perspectives and standards of connectivity in the use of broadband networks in the world, showing the viability in the use of such modern technologies in the GPON broadband.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127690182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Ramachandran, Junbiao Han, S. K. Solanki, J. Solanki
{"title":"Price based unit commitment with wind generation and market clearing price variations","authors":"V. Ramachandran, Junbiao Han, S. K. Solanki, J. Solanki","doi":"10.5220/0005442002170225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005442002170225","url":null,"abstract":"Bidding plays an important role for Gencos (Generation Companies) participating in competitive electricity markets with the objective of maximizing profit. The characteristics of generators and price uncertainty need to be considered while formulating bidding strategies as they have a direct impact on expected profit. The rapid development of wind technology leads to an increasing share of wind power in the market and should be considered for calculating the Market Clearing Price (MCP). In this paper, the effects of wind intermittency on MCP variations of the wind farm generators are considered for the price based unit commitment strategy of the Genco. Simulations are performed on an IEEE 30-bus test system with wind farm that indicate significant corrections in day ahead forecasted PBUC (Price Based Unit Commitment) schedule and real time dispatch schedule of the Genco for optimal bidding.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128982822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. M.FernandaMantilla, A. N. Lee, J. Lastra, Elli Kotakorpi
{"title":"Methodology for energy efficiency assessment in the transport sector for smart cities","authors":"R. M.FernandaMantilla, A. N. Lee, J. Lastra, Elli Kotakorpi","doi":"10.5220/0005488300720077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005488300720077","url":null,"abstract":"To measure the impact of transport projects in smart cities can be expensive and time-consuming. One challenge in measuring the effect of these projects is that impacts are poorly quantified or are not always immediately tangible. Due to transport projects nature, it is often difficult to show results in short term because much of the effort is invested in changing attitudes and behaviour on the mobility choices of city inhabitants. This paper presents a methodology that was developed to evaluate and define city transport projects for increasing energy efficiency. The main objective of this methodology is to help city authorities to improve the energy efficiency of the city by defining strategies and taking actions in the transportation domain. In order to define it, a review of current methodologies for measuring the impact of energy efficiency projects was performed. The defined energy efficiency methodology provides standard structure to the evaluation process, making sure that each project is being evaluated against its own goals and as detailed as it is required to the level of investment. An implementation in a smart city of the first step of this methodology is included in order to evaluate the implementation phase of the defined process.","PeriodicalId":408526,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117254230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}