1. IT Infrastructure for Energy Efficiency in Future Cities: From the Smart Home to the Smart Grid Chief Investigators: CS&IT: Prof. Zahir Tari, Dr Caspar Ryan, Dr Ibrahim Khalil R & I (Director eResearch): Prof. Heinrich Schmidt

2. RMIT UniversitySlide 2 Energy Efficiency? We can do better! Empower Individuals -> Smart Homes Empower Business -> Smart Industry Empower Government -> Smart Grid Smart IT Infrastructure

3. RMIT UniversitySlide 3 Smart Homes http://www.orble.com/the-smart-home-how-building-management-systems-integrate-technology-to-increase-energy-efficiency/

4. RMIT UniversitySlide 4 Smart Metering

5. RMIT UniversitySlide 5 Smart Industry http://www.archrock.com

6. RMIT UniversitySlide 6 Smart Grid http://www.refer.eu.com/

7. Future Cities - The Most Complex and Heterogeneous Distributed System Ever! RMIT CS & IT: Service-Oriented Architecture, Security and Privacy, Cloud Computing, Scheduling, Data Collection/Mining, Adaptation and Self-Healing Systems, Embedded Software Systems and Hardware Control Interfaces, Interoperability, etc. Power Generation, Supply and Delivery Large Scale Systems Modelling, Game Theory, Optimisation Design and Architecture: Building Efficiency for Physical Spaces, Ergonomics/Usability for End User Devices (e.g. wearable computing, The Internet of Things) RMIT UniversitySlide 7