Transcript From the Smart Home to the Smart Grid: Controlling Energy

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
Energy Efficiency? We can do better!
 Empower Individuals -> Smart Homes
 Empower Business -> Smart Industry
 Empower Government -> Smart Grid
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Smart IT Infrastructure
Smart Homes
http://www.orble.com/the-smart-home-how-building-management-systems-integrate-technology-to-increase-energy-efficiency/
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Smart Metering
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Smart Industry
http://www.archrock.com
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Smart Grid
http://www.refer.eu.com/
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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)
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