Joint workshops with American partners

June 25th and 26th Centre for Smart Energy Solutions held two workshops one on Smart Buildings in a Smart Grid at the Green Tech Center and one at IT University of Copenhagen covering present research topics. Both were held in close collaboration with partners from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorium and Nasa Ames.

Smart Buildings in a Smart Grid

As commercial buildings accounts for approximately 40% of the total energy consumption worldwide, improving energy-efficiency of commercial buildings is essential to ensuring the transition to a sustainable energy system.

At the workshop building energy-efficiency from an ICT perspective was discussed. Offset for the workshop was the on-going research at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, IT University of Copenhagen, and University of Southern Denmark. Focus was on research activities which can bring building intelligence beyond current building automation and energy management systems. Furthermore, it was discussed how this next generation of building intelligence will ensure seamless integration of buildings with micro- and community-scale smart grids.

Workshop at IT University of Copenhagen

The workshop at IT University of Copenhagen on June 26th consisted of four sessions. Each session started with lightning talks to present the participants research topics followed by in-depth discussion.

The sessions were:

• Connection between Physical & Virtual Worlds
• Trust, Security and Privacy
• Building Applications, Human Interaction,
• Building Operating System Infrastructure (data, control, APIs)

Associate Professor Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard presenting at the workshop 'Smart Buildings in a Smart Grid'

Participants at the workshop ' Smart Buildings in a Smart Grid'

 
Intense discussions among the participants made a constructive day

The whole group gathered in front of the Green Tech Center.