“Forget About the Bill: IoT-Based Solutions Towards the Net Zero Energy Building”By Dr. Virginia Pilloni, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy |
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Abstract
Smart Buildings Energy and Comfort Management Systems (BECM) are characterized by the presence of sensors, actuators and smart devices that give the opportunity to monitor and remotely control key equipment within buildings. In such an intelligent scenario, one of the major goals is to provide decision-support tools that enable users to make cost-effective decisions in terms of energy consumption. As a matter of fact, domestic electricity usage currently accounts for about 40% of the global energy consumption and contributes over 30% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One of the main EU targets for 2050 is to achieve net-zero GHG emissions, which means transforming buildings and neighborhoods to develop net-zero energy districts. Nevertheless, user comfort is crucial when policies of Demand-Side Management (DSM) are put in place. Indeed, a system that optimizes energy consumption without considering user preferences and habits about appliance usage quickly leads to user disaffection from the system and abandonment of it.
The objective of this talk is to analyze the opportunities and challenges related to efficient management of energy within Smart Building and Smart Neighborhood scenarios. The talk will first introduce the technologies that can be used to address these challenges. It will later focus on the main approaches proposed by the literature for smart BECM. The talk will discuss how the analyzed approaches address the problem, and which constraints are considered in order to satisfy users’ comfort requirements. Accordingly, the application of these approaches to some typical Smart Building scenarios will be investigated.
Bio
Virginia Pilloni is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari. Her main research interests are focused on Internet of Things and Smart Buildings, with particular attention to the improvement of their performance through resource allocation. She received her PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering with Doctor Europaeus mention from the University of Cagliari in 2013. From November 2011 to April 2012 she was a visiting PhD student at the CCSR at the University of Surrey. She has been involved in several national and international research projects, among which DEMANES (EU – 7FP) and QoE-NET (EU – H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014). She is currently serving as an expert for the evaluation of H2020 proposals. She is an Editor of Elsevier Computer Networks. She has served as conference chair and program committee member of several international conferences.
“Monitoring People Mobility in Smart Cities: Applications and Technologies”By Professor Luigi Atzori, Multimedia & Communication Lab
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Abstract
Understanding people mobility in urban areas is of key importance for the implementation of major city management tasks, such as: planning public transport services; overseeing security during big city events; and analysing the influence of public areas on city quality of life. This talk presents how the analysis of WiFi probes requests generated by mobile devices can contribute to build this understanding while preserving users privacy. Key mobility indicators can be extracted: crowd density per area of interest, people flows, recurrent mobility patterns, and mobility heat maps. These indicators are provided by the PmA solution developed by the MCLab, which has been tested in several real scenario, in the city of Turin, Alba and Cagliari.
Bio
Luigi Atzori is Professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy), where he leads the laboratory of Multimedia and Communications with around 20 affiliates (http://mclab.diee.unica.it). His research interests are in multimedia networking, with emphasis on multimedia QoE management, and architectures for IoT platforms. He is also interested in the application of these technologies to the sustainable mobility field; this activity is carried out through the spinoff GreenShare (www.green-share.it) he cofounded and where he serves as the CIO. He is involved in several European projects and recently he has been the coordinator of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on QoE for multimedia services. He is member of the steering committee for the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, member of the editorial board of the IEEE IoT, the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and the Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks journals.