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Guest Post by Benjamin Steinwender At my home place we have recently installed two photovoltaic systems with a total peak power production of 15 kW. From the first moment my dad confronted me with this idea, I wanted to record time series data of any measurement signal I could obtain from the system. Most promising […]

We (Anita Sobe and Istvan Fehervari) are currently at the SASO 2012 in Lyon, the main conference on self-organizing and self-adaptive systems, with approximately 100 attendees. The topics of the talks are very wide spread and therefore the attendees and speakers come from different fields where they apply and analyze various SASO systems. The first […]

From July 5-6 2012 the tenth Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES) took place in Klagenfurt, Austria. On this workshop Wilfried Elmenreich and Dominik Egarter presented their paper called “Design Guidelines for Smart Appliances”. Possible software solution for smart appliances:waistline architecture model Embedded intelligence can help controlling and reducing the energy consumption of appliances to […]

Guest Post by Lizzie Dawes Of the individual countries looked at (Austria, UK, Germany, USA), Austria produces the most renewable energy, in terms of proportion. Unsurprisingly, given its area, the USA produces the most renewable energy. The USA was second only to China in its investment in renewables, spending $51 billion (around 41 billion Euros) […]

Our paper “Smart Microgrids: Overview and Outlook” by Anita Sobe and Wilfried Elmenreich has been accepted for the Smart Grid Workshop of the ITG INFORMATIK 2012 conference, taking place from 16th to 21st September 2012 in Braunschweig, Germany. The idea of changing our energy system from a hierarchical design into a set of nearly independent […]

The Research Days are an annual event concentrating on the core competence of Lakeside Labs – Self-organizing Networked Systems.  During this workshop organized by Lakeside Labs GmbH in cooperation with the University of Klagenfurt, international experts devote themselves to a special topic in self-organization. The event is organized as a five days workshop in July. It […]

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems SMARTGREENShttp://www.smartgreens.org/19 – 20 April, 2012Porto, Portugal In collaboration with EDP, SIEMENS, Schneider Electric and EfacecSponsored by INSTICCINSTICC is Member of WfMC and OMGMedia Partner: SmartGrid Carrers.com IMPORTANT DATES:  Regular Paper Submission: January 23, 2012 (deadline extended)  Authors Notification (regular papers): February 22, […]

At night between 11 PM and 4 AM there is an overcapacity of electrical energy. With the installation of wind energy, this overcapacity will even increase, since the is no merit in not using the wind to produce energy. In a smart grid, we will have time-of-use pricing for electrical energy and smart appliances being […]

27-29 August, 2012 University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) 2000 Simcoe St. N. Oshawa, ON, L1H 7K4 The Smart Grids are electricity networks that promise to enhance the operational efficiency of nationwide power supply via distributed generation with bi-directional electricity flow. This objective is achieved by allowing intelligent monitoring and control of different components […]