Pallab Ganguly, Sumit Poddar, S. Dutta, M. Nasipuri
{"title":"Analysis of the security anomalies in the smart metering infrastructure and its impact on energy profiling and measurement","authors":"Pallab Ganguly, Sumit Poddar, S. Dutta, M. Nasipuri","doi":"10.5220/0005792303020308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005792303020308","url":null,"abstract":"Security of the smart metering infrastructure, which is a part of the smart grid initiative, intended at transitioning the legacy power grid system into a robust, reliable, adaptable and intelligent energy utility, is an imminent problem that needs to be addressed quickly. Moreover, the increasingly intensifying integration of smart metering infrastructure with other ecosystem applications and the underlying communication technology is forcing both the consumer and the utility provider to meticulously look into the security and privacy issues of the smart grid. To achieve this, improvements on the existing architecture that uses smart meters interacting with smart grid is needed. This architecture would help in consolidation and aggregation of the energy usage and generation as intelligent communicators instead of focusing them as isolated passive units in the energy grid. The study presented in the paper analyses the various existing smart metering infrastructure, threats and vulnerabilities that has the potential to disrupt the operation and deployment of automation systems in smart grids. Furthermore, an elaborate study and subsequent analysis have been made on a live consumer meter setup in a non-invasive manner, which shows the various security loopholes and deficiencies of a large deployment of unattended smart meters. The study identifies the potential gaps and suggests possible measures for a cost effective and robust solution to cater for present as well as future needs.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131637320","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":"Ensuring the comfort in the heated space by controlling the temperature in the heating installation of a non-residential building","authors":"D. Popescu, I. Borza","doi":"10.5220/0005906504620467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005906504620467","url":null,"abstract":"In this article is modeled, with the help of Simulink, the automatic system that controls the thermal agent temperature in a non-residential building chosen for study. It describes how the model has been drawn for the subsystem entitled HEATED SPACE in the building. There were used mathematical relationships which show how the indoor temperature is changing, depending on the heat input in building and the heat loss through building envelope. The other subsystems have been modeled in the articles specified in the bibliography. By simulation of the model for the automatic system is determinated his behavior during two days in the winter season. The evaluation of the thermal comfort in the heated space from the building, ensured by using the automatic system, is made by analyzing the graphs of the significant temperatures from the modeled system: indoor temperature, outdoor temperature and thermal agent temperature in the heating installation. At the end of the article are shown the main causes of low thermal comfort in the building, and also the reasons why this type of automatic system is preferred in many non-residential buildings.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128035221","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":"Wind farm layout design using cuckoo search algorithm","authors":"S. Rehman, S. Ali, Syed Hasan Adil","doi":"10.1080/08839514.2017.1279043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2017.1279043","url":null,"abstract":"Wind energy has emerged as a strong alternative to fossil fuels for power generation. To generate this energy, wind turbines are placed in a wind farm. The extraction of maximum energy from these wind farms demands an efficient layout of the wind farms. This layout determines the location of each turbine in the wind farm. Due to its sheer complexity, the wind farm layout design problem is considered a complex optimization problem. In recent years, several attempts have been made to develop techniques and algorithms for optimization of wind farms. This paper proposes yet another optimization algorithm based on the cuckoo search (CS), which is a recent optimization method. The proposed cuckoo search algorithm is compared with genetic algorithm which is by far the highest utilized algorithm for wind farm layout design. Empirical results indicate that the proposed cuckoo search algorithm outperformed the genetic algorithm for the given test scenarios in terms of yearly power output and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130506599","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":"Electric-motion in Romania — Overview: Study on machining parameters of EV charging station mechanical components","authors":"M. Iliescu, Nicolae Bercan, Alexandru Rogojinaru","doi":"10.5220/0005906204480453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005906204480453","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents some relevant aspects of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Romania. It evidences the charging station and fast charging stations designed and installed by the first Romanian company dedicated 100% to e-mobility, E-Motion Electric. Also, a study on machining (milling) parameters of some mechanical components of electric vehicle (EV) charging station is done and, finally, the regression model for these parameters is determined. This model would be further used for machining process optimization.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115116771","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 management of personal computers based on user behaviour","authors":"Brian Setz, F. Nizamic, A. Lazovik, Marco Aiello","doi":"10.5220/0005762604090416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005762604090416","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown that up to 64 percent of personal computers in office buildings are left running during after-hours. Enabling power management options such as sleep mode is a straightforward method to reduce the energy consumption of computers. However, choosing the right timeout can be challenging. A sleep timeout which is too low leads to discomfort, whereas a timeout which is too high results in poor energy saving efficiency. Having the users choose their own sleep timeout is not viable as research shows that most users disable the sleep timeout completely, or choose a suboptimal timeout. Unlike existing context based power management systems which use predefined rules, we propose a solution which can determine a personalized sleep timeout for any point in time solely based on the users behaviour. We propose multiple models which have the goal of maximizing the energy savings while minimizing discomfort. The models are tested on the computers of employees of the University of Groningen over several weeks. We analyse the results of the experiments and determine which model performs best. We can potentially save between 4.02 and 17.17 kWh per computer per year, depending on the model that used.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117169078","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}
H. Acar, G. Alptekin, Jean-Patrick Gelas, P. Ghodous
{"title":"Beyond CPU: Considering memory power consumption of software","authors":"H. Acar, G. Alptekin, Jean-Patrick Gelas, P. Ghodous","doi":"10.5220/0005764904170424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005764904170424","url":null,"abstract":"ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are responsible around 2% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions (Gartner, 2007). And according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) recent reports, CO2 emissions due to ICTs are increasing widely. For this reason, many works tried to propose various tools to estimate the energy consumption due to software in order to reduce carbon footprint. However, these studies, in the majority of cases, takes into account only the CPU and neglects all others components. Whereas, the trend towards high-density packaging and raised memory involve a great increased of power consumption caused by memory and maybe memory can become the largest power consumer in servers. In this paper, we model and then estimate the power consumed by CPU and memory due to the execution of a software. Thus, we perform several experiments in order to observe the behavior of each component.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125191741","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}
Simona Bigerna, C. Bollino, Silvia Micheli, Paolo Polinori
{"title":"Households and sustainable green technologies: A review","authors":"Simona Bigerna, C. Bollino, Silvia Micheli, Paolo Polinori","doi":"10.5220/0005907403780383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005907403780383","url":null,"abstract":"There is widespread consensus in the climate research community that households show different attitudes toward the broad spectrum of technologies and policy instruments implemented to reduce CO2 emissions. The aim of this paper is to investigate the monetary aspect of socio-economic acceptability of four sustainable green technologies development: green electricity, energy savings in residential buildings, smart meters and alternative fuel vehicles. We obtained information on willingness to pay, and/or willingness to accept, for such technologies from a sample of 35 papers taken from the literature. We homogenize this information computing an implicit price of a Kg of CO2 avoided, named PCO2. A qualitative analysis is carried out to explain the households' attitude to avoid CO2 in monetary terms. Results show that on average PCO2 is positive. There are, however, some negative attitudes only in the case of alternative fuel vehicles. In conclusion, empirical results show that households have a favorable attitude toward sustainable green technologies, but further research is desirable to design new policies to make the future of the sustainable society more plausible.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129258976","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":"Where does the development of road transport emission macro modelling lead?","authors":"Mohammad Maghrour Zefreh, Á. Török","doi":"10.5220/0005901801000104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005901801000104","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, road transport models have developed for better estimation of road traffic emissions with higher and higher temporal and spatial resolution, to be used as a tool in air quality management for the better living. Road transport related emission models are becoming more and more complex. In this paper, the key research question is how the improvement in modelling influences the results? The authors compared three different macro emission modelling system with the dataset of Hungary for 2010. One must notice that more precise model has larger data requirement. Firstly, the consumption-based model was run with 31 needed input data secondly, EURO standard based model was run with 261 needed data and finally, speed dependent model was run with 1060 needed input data. According to the results, it can be stated that a more complex model could cause significant differences in emission compared to simpler one. The differences can be caused by old Hungarian vehicle fleet or differences in estimation error.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130414006","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}
Samuele Branchetti, G. Ciaccio, P. D. Sabbata, Angelo Frascella, Giuseppe Nigliaccio, Marco Zambelli
{"title":"Energy saving and efficiency tool: A sectorial decision support model for energy consumption reduction in manufacturing SMEs","authors":"Samuele Branchetti, G. Ciaccio, P. D. Sabbata, Angelo Frascella, Giuseppe Nigliaccio, Marco Zambelli","doi":"10.5220/0005801303300339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005801303300339","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of Energy Efficiency in industry is a hot topic but companies are not still implementing, on a mass scale, energy efficiency actions. One of the most important barriers is that companies are scarcely aware of their consumptions and consider energy as a fixed cost and not as a resource to be managed. In this paper it is proposed a model, based on self-analysis of consumptions, for facing this barrier. On the base of this model, a software tool, Energy Saving and Efficiency Tool (ESET), was designed as a starting point of an energy diagnosis path for SMEs. ESET was developed for textile/clothing sector but the model is general and, starting from it, similar sectorial tools can be developed. The tool provides different kinds of outputs: best practices, for helping companies to improve its own energy performances; energy efficiency indices, compared with reference values; energy use behaviours. Particularly, best practices are selected using a large set of rules, distilled from the experience of professional energy auditors. The analysis of the accuracy and completeness of ESET results was performed on six companies selected among all those involved in ESET testing and application. The results of this evaluation are very encouraging.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130816815","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":"The current situation and future trends of marketplaces for mobility services: Findings from qualitative expert interviews","authors":"Michael Strasser, S. Albayrak","doi":"10.5220/0005740100210031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005740100210031","url":null,"abstract":"The number of marketplaces for services in the mobility domain is growing which makes it difficult to assess these systems according their capabilities, designs and operational approaches. Research has shown that the current state of the art for the mobility service marketplace domain lacks information about current capabilities as well as future trends. Therefore, qualitative interviews with various experts from the field have been conducted to obtain up-to date and relevant information about the currently ongoing efforts and achievements of marketplaces for mobility services. The interviews covered topics like marketplace architecture, functional capabilities, business relationships, communication and data exchange as well as protocol standardization and future trends. The paper presents the obtained information, contributes to the current state of the art as well as illustrates future trends and requirements of service marketplaces. Based upon the obtained information, a comprehensive Morphological Box has been developed which serves as a design framework and facilitates the development of future service marketplaces.","PeriodicalId":448232,"journal":{"name":"2016 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS)","volume":"15 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132748659","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}