SIT4Energy to present its Transfer Canvas at the 2nd…

One of the two energy-related transfer canvases to be presented during the 2nd German-Greek Online Workshop on Knowledge and Technology Transfer will be covered by SIT4Energy.

Eighteen projects have submitted their Transfer Canvases, covering a variety of thematic areas, such as Health, Agrofood Bioeconomy , Culture Tourism Culture/Innovation and Social Challenges, Materials and Key Enabling Technologies, and Energy.

SIT4Energy will go through each building block of the its Transfer Canvas, elaborating on the details that aim to create business value for the project’s results.

Getting closer to the EEAI workshop within AIAI2021

Only a few days before the AIAI2021 conference starts, and the program has been announced from the conference committee.

SIT4Energy has organized the 1st Energy Efficiency and Artificial Intelligence (ΕΕΑΙ) Workshop, which will take place on the 26th of June, 2021, 16:30-17:45, hosting five very interesting oral presentations.

During the final day of the conference on the 27th, an open session entitled Smart IT for Energy Efficiency and Integrated Demand Management, will also be held by the SIT4Energy team, presenting the main project tools to a wider audience that includes various academic, commercial and industrial partners.

“Energy Management Tools for Optimizing Prosumer Scenarios” Webinar

SHF, together with HOST, EIPCM and the municipal utility network called ASEW, hosted the webinar “Energy Management Tools for Optimizing Prosumer Scenarios” on May 26, 2021. The ASEW is an organization that assists municipal utilities with a wide variety of topics in the energy sector with legal, methodological or even written ideas and implementations. Since the ASEW network includes utilities from all over Germany, we reached the right target group with our webinar here to publicize and market the Smart Management Energy Dashboards for prosumers utilities. The webinar was about the overall change in the energy sector in terms of managing different prosumer scenarios in the future and what challenges and opportunities this presents for utilities. Furthermore, it was discussed how utilities can respond to the emerging change by presenting the SIT4Energy project with the developed tools. In order to get the participants completely involved in the topic and to present a visual understanding of the problem, the prosumer dashboard as well as the utility dashboard were presented in the form of a live demo and the positive effects were presented as a possible solution for coping with prosumer scenarios. Finally, the first calculated business models were touched upon, how utilities can react financially to the resulting revenue losses by increasing the self-sufficiency of households by selling the developed solutions.

The feedback was consistently positive, resulting in a lively and open discussion at the end of the webinar with the approximately 15 participants from other municipal utilities.

New Video for the Utility Dashboard

Check out our new video for the functionalities of the SIT4Energy Utility Smart Dashboard.

SIT4Energy Utility Pilot has started

On March 17^th a new pilot was launched at Stadtwerk Haßfurt premises.  As part of the SIT4Energy project, the Smart Energy Management Dashboard for utilities will be evaluated. The application is based on visual analytics and explainable machine learning to facilitate the analysis of energy-related parameters to support analysts to plan the energy supply in the company. This is important to support the decision-making in planning energy management in the company, especially in small utilities which are implementing innovative technology to address the increment of prosumers in smart grids.

As part of the evaluation, five analysts from Stadtwerk Haßfurt will be testing the first application prototype as part of their energy-planning activities. During six weeks, the participants will be able to use actively the dashboard to analyze mainly energy demand and supply. The feedback obtained during this phase will be used to improve the overall application.

3rd Newsletter Available

Check out our 3rd Newsletter with some key project activities and results.

6th Plenary Meeting Online

SIT4Energy 6th Plenary Meeting, held on the 24th of February, 2021 online, brought together the consortium aiming at presenting and organizing the integrated SIT4Energy framework and its ongoing deployment to the pilots. The members presented their current development and integration procedures and described their operational tools and engines along with pending integration steps. The discussions focused on the pilot deployment, with special consideration the COVID-19 limitations on both countries. Initial results from the open pilot phase have been presented along with next final events and overall activities for the last project’s period.

SIT4Energy in AIAI2021

SIT4Energy will organize a workshop on Energy Efficiency and Artificial Intelligence (EEAI) at the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2021), which will take place at Crete, Greece, on the 25-27 of June 2021.

The EEAI Workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of AI-driven solutions for increasing and improving energy efficiency of residential and tertiary buildings and of occupant behaviour. Either applied directly on the building management systems, or aiming towards affecting energy-related occupant behavior to stimulate behavioural change, proposed solutions should enable more energy efficient and sustainable operation of buildings and stimulate energy-efficient consumer behaviour. Of particular interest are human-centered AI approaches that increase trustworthiness with explainable AI models and their results for non-expert users. The workshop also welcomes cross-domain approaches that investigate how to support energy efficiency by addressing both direct and indirect energy-related behaviour.

Don’t miss the opportunity to submit a paper and join us in this AI-driven event! See the CfP here.

Program chairs

• Dimitrios Tzovaras, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
• Stelios Krinidis, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
• Jasminko Novak, IACS – Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund

For more information visit the AIAI 2021 website.

Student workshop about the SIT4Energy Mobile App

The SIT4Energy Mobile App for Sustainable Energy Behaviour was tested and analysed in an online workshop (07.01.2021) on user-centred gamification with students from the Master’s degree programme in Business Informatics at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences. The workshop took place as part of Prof. Novak’s course on CSCW & Collective Intelligence. The students have analyzed the mobile app with respect to the principles of user-centered gamification for different player types and generated ideas for its further development in future work.