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iURBAN: Intelligent Urban Energy Tool

Narcis Avellana

iURBAN: Intelligent Urban Energy Tool introduces an urban energy tool integrating different ICT energy management systems (both hardware and software) in two European cities, providing useful data to a novel decision support system that makes available the necessary parameters for the generation and further operation of associated business models. The business models contribute at a global level to efficiently manage and distribute the energy produced and consumed at a local level (city or neighbourhood), incorporating behavioural aspects of the users into the software platform and in general prosumers.

iURBAN integrates a smart Decision Support System (smartDSS) that collects real-time or near real-time data, aggregates, analyses and suggest actions of energy consumption and production from different buildings, renewable energy production resources, combined heat and power plants, electric vehicles (EV) charge stations, storage systems, sensors and actuators. The consumption and production data is collected via a heterogeneous data communication protocols and networks. The iURBAN smartDSS through a Local Decision Support System allows the citizens to analyse the consumptions and productions that they are generating, receive information about CO2 savings, advises in demand response and the possibility to participate actively in the energy market. Whilst, through a Centralised Decision Support System allow to utilities, ESCOs, municipalities or other authorised third parties to:

  • Get a continuous snapshot of city energy consumption and production
  • Manage energy consumption and production
  • Forecasting of energy consumption
  • Planning of new energy "producers" for the future needs of the city

Visualise, analyse and take decisions of all the end points that are consuming or producing energy in a city level, permitting them to forecast and planning renewable power generation available in the city.

Book Details

  • Publisher: River Publishers
  • Publish Date: Nov 18th, 2016
  • Pages: 222
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.56in - 1.08lb
  • EAN: 9788793519107
  • Categories: Power Resources - Alternative & RenewableIndustries - EnergyData Science - General

About the Author

Avellana, Narcis: - Narcis Avellana is responsible for the vision, strategy, and leadership of Sensing & Control Systems. He is also responsible for the company's financial management. Under his leadership, S&C has grown to become one of the top 20 most innovative companies in Barcelona. Narcis co-founded S&Cwith Alberto Fernandez in 2006. Prior to S&C, he was a Marketing Director and Key Account Manager for the Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Division at Epson Europe Electronics where he increased turnover from 200K to 7.5 M . In 2001, he returned to Barcelona to establish the Seiko-Epson Business & R&D Center, where he was General Manager for 6 years. Along his professional career, Narcis has published more than 40 scientific articles and is an Approved Expert Evaluator and Reviewer for the European Commission. He received his Ph.D. in Microelectronics, summa cum laude, developed in the University of Ulm, Germany, his BA in Computer Science from the University of Barcelona and his MSc in Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Fernandez, Alberto: - Alberto Fernandez is Operations Director in S&C for 10 years where he is responsible for developing hardware, software and firmware solutions. He has a track record of more than 20 years' experience developing technological solutions. Alberto holds a Computer Science MSc in microelectronics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He worked in the R&D department of the Spanish Microelectronics Centre for 3 years. Then he worked as R&D engineer at Microson, a Spanish leading company in the development of hearing aid products for the global market for more than 5 years. Following this, he was the Technical Manager of the Seiko Epson Barcelona Design Centre, at the R&D department for 6 years.