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Smart Energy

Prof. Dr. Friedemann Mattern
Dr. Verena Tiefenbeck
Dr. Vlad Coroama

Where and when:

Wednesday, 13:15 – 16:00, (Link to course catalogue)

Content:

The lecture covers the role of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for sustainable energy usage. It outlines concepts of the emerging smart grid as well as approaches to motivate sustainable consumer choices. For that it combines technologies from ubiquitous computing and traditional ICT with insights from socio-psychological research and illustrates these concepts with examples from actual applications.

Specific topics include:

  • Background on energy generation and consumption; characteristics, potential, and limitations of renewable energy sources.
  • Introduction to energy economics.
  • Smart grid and smart metering infrastructures, virtual power plants, security challenges.
  • Demand management and home automation using ubiquitous computing technologies.
  • Changing consumer behavior with smart ICT.
  • Benefits and challenges of a smart energy system.

Goals:

Participants become familiar with the challenges related to sustainable energy usage, understand the principles of a smart grid infrastructure and its applications, know the role of ubiquitous computing technologies, can explain the challenges regarding security and privacy, can reflect the basics cues to induce changes in consumer behavior, develop a general understanding of the effects of a smart grid infrastructure on energy efficiency, and know how to apply the learning to related design projects.

Exercises:

The lecture will also include interactive exercises, case studies and practical examples.

Literature:

Learning Material:

Lecture Date Slides Content
1 20.09.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-1.pdf
Energy-Lecture_Projects-Intro.pdf
Introduction: Energy and Electricity, Energy Usage
2 27.09.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-2.pdf

Project1-Description.pdf
Android Intro.pdf
Android Live Hacking.pdf
Android Solutions.pdf
Electricity Usage, Presentation 1st Project, Android Tutorial
3 04.10.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-3.pdf Electricity Production and Storage, Electricity Grid
4 11.10.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-4.pdf

Reading assignment for 18 October.pdf
Electricity Grid, Smart Metering
5 18.10.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-5.pdf Demand Response, Smart Metering for Energy Conservation
6 25.10.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-6.pdf ICT for Behavior Change
7 01.11.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-7.pdf Smart Heating
8 08.11.2017 Project 2 Description.pdf
Smart Heating Simulation and HH Data
Student Presentations Project 1
9 15.11.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-9.pdf Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), Acceptance Issues
10 22.11.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-10.pdf ICT Abatement Potential, Rebound Effects
11 29.11.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-11.pdf ICT Energy Consumption
12 06.12.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-12.pdf Electric Vehicles
13 13.12.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-13.pdf Energy Costs, Smart Grid Security
14 20.12.2017 Energy-Lecture-17-14.pdf Student Presentations Project 2, Smart Grid

Contact:

If you have questions regarding the lecture, please contact Vlad Coroama.
ETH ZurichDistributed Systems Group
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