1. ISMB – Smart Energy activities
2013

2. Smart Energy Program Objectives Keywords
• The Smart Energy Strategic Program aims to answer to the challenges and problems of a sustainable use of our energy resources leveraging on the ICT technologies
• ICT may bring new ways of managing energy distribution through smart grids, new ways of managing energy consumption through smart metering, smart billing or electrical mobility.
• ICT has the potential of shaping in a new way the whole energy environment and will be a key element to develop new services, business sectors and infrastructures in the coming years (electric car, user awareness, etc.).
•The ISMB’s Smart Energy program is willing to promote the use of the ICT in the Energy environment and experimenting new energy paradigms in this sector.
Keywords
• Smart buildings, smart monitoring, smart (micro) grids, peer-to-peer energy local exchange, energy aggregators and Local Energy Communities, Management and Control systems (MCS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), etc..

3. Smart Energy Program 10/11/2018 The Strategic Project
Internal research activity within the Strategic Program aimed at:
Identifying IC Technologies that can help increasing the “smartness” of Energy usage and management
Studying how ICT can support the introduction of RES in energy networks
Analyzing the complex relations among energy processes within urban districts
Modeling the scenario of a micro-grid and generating a planning platform tailored to support energy-related decision making
Creating a test living Energy lab to demonstrate, to test and to validate new ICT solutions
Other Research Projects
The Program permanently develops other Research Projects in cooperation with ISMB's Research Areas, according to the long term objectives defined by the Strategic Program’s guidelines
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4. The strategic Programme
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5. Energy Planning Tool
The aim of this activity is to develop an ICT tool to support the relevant stakeholders in the decision-making process for the energy urban planning
Developing the ICT platform for data collection and data gathering
Study simplify energy model for the data analysis
Realization of a front-end layer for the visualization of the data
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6. A simplified model
Below are sketched the energy sources, sinks and storage entities of a local configuration and the potential streams of energy among them
a (t) and c(t) are the instant power respectively generated by the LEC renewable sources and entering the LEC from the public grid
b (t) is the instant power dissipated by the LEC appliances
a(t) and b(t) represent the real time
behaviour of the two power
functions
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7. The simplified model
There are 4 kinds of state change and 3 different recursive formula describe the behavior for each state
Each formula holds from the control instant the system enters one state up to the control instant it enters another state sl sd S
self
sufficiency
selling to the grid
purchasing
from the grid sl sd S
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8. Support to the Energy Center
The objective of this activities is oriented to the analysis of those models, algorithms and technologies to improve the local management of energy and to simplify the integration of renewable energy in existing systems (diversification of energy vectors)
Investigation of new distribution topologies
Development of the ICT platform for supporting a cooperative local energy management (i.e. peer to peer energy trading)
Analysis of models and algorithms for the smart micro-grids intelligence (i.e. development of a reasoner)
Development of a proof of concept as internal test-bed as outcome of this activity.
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9. Storage, Sources, and Sinks
Overall Architecture
District Storage
Grid
Interface
District Mains
District Power Manager
District
Interface
Home Trading Agent
Storage, Sources, and Sinks

10. Overall Architecture District Power Manager District Mains District
Power Conditioning
& MPPT
Renewable Sources
Inverter
Home Mains
District Mains
District
Interface
Home Trading Agent
District Power Manager
Smart Home
Home Storage

11. Home Energy Management
time
Trading Interval 1
Trading Interval 2
Trading Interval 3
Energy Bought
Energy Sold
Home Storage Energy %
50%
Target threshold
Buy threshold A
Sell threshold A
100%

12. Home Energy Management
time
Home Storage Energy %
100%
Target threshold
Buy threshold A
Sell threshold A
Trading Interval 1
Trading Interval 2
Trading Interval 3
Energy Bought
Energy Sold
Sell threshold B (€--)
Buy threshold B (€++)
50%

13. Cooperation between ISMB and Denerg
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14. Collaborazioni ISMB- Denerg
Progetto FLARE (PoloICT)
Progetto VitalGRID (FP7-ICT – 16 Aprile)
Progetto Helios-Bio (CIP-IEE – 8 Maggio)
Progetto Oreal (in corso) (CIP-SILC – 13 Giugno)
Progetto monitoraggio energetico edifici (Mauriziano, Teatro Regio)
HR -> Inserimento di Octavian Ionel (Dottorando Denerg)
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15. Current Energy Projects
Project Name
Description
EBBITS (Enabling business-based Internet of Things and Services)
An Interoperability platform for a real-world populated Internet of Things domain
EnerCloud
Cloud based system for Energy Monitoring and Public Lighting management
SEEMPubS (Smart Energy Efficient Middleware for Public Spaces)
SEEMPubS aims to improve the energy saving and to reduce the CO2 footprint in public spacing by means of a smart use of the ICT technologies without any refurbishment activities
SIEPI
Energy saving in indoor and outdoor lighting in private, industrial and public sectors
GreenCom
The project will develop an energy management and control platform that allows energy providers for the first time ever to measure and balance load in the low-voltage grid and thereby prevent or reduce critical peak situations.
SMILE-O (Smart Metering for Local Energy Optimization)
Implementation of a framework for Energy optimization in industrial sectors where the use of energy is coupled with the generation from renewable sources.
Energy Awareness
Realization of an internal test-bed able to model and validate solutions for an Energy district.
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