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2010 ICT for sustainable homes: Mark your Calendar!

ICT for sustainable homes will be held this year at the Méridien Hotel in Nice, France, on November 17-19, 2010.

Mark your calendar and stay tuned: more information coming soon!

ICT for sustainable homes - Conference and Exhibition

2009 ICT for sustainable homes: a successful first edition but only a first step

The first edition of ICT for sustainable homes was held in Nice's Plaza Hotel on November 16 & 17, 2009. ICT for sustainable homes was organised by Sigma Orionis in cooperation with the Beywatch project aiming at energy efficient homes and neighbourhoods and supported by the European Commission's DG Information Society and Media.

The two-day event welcome 119 delegates from 19 countries (Europe, Japan and Canada) and featured 15 exhibitors representatives of industrial organisations and collaborative research projects. For all details about the 2009 edition, visit the dedicated event website.

Other Related Events

Representatives of the BeyWatch project will take advantage of major events in the field to disseminate the project results and raise awarness on BeyWatch's concepts. Below is a list of events in which representatives of BeyWatch have introduced or plan to introduce the project.

Past events

EVER2010 (Monaco, March 25-28, 2010).
A Beywatch Session "Efficient Energy Management and Control at Home, Building and Neighborough level", award winner, was organised, chaired by Prof. Rosario Miceli (University of Palermo) and with 5 papers (Reducing energy consumptions and CO2 emissions in European countries: a review on legal environment and increasing use of photovoltaic energy for Electric Propulsion Systems / An Electronic Emulator of Combined Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Systems / Opportunistic Synchronization for Improving IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Performance in Chain Topologies / A Micro Wind Generation System for Local DoS Applications / Benefit at Grid Level by Using DoS Actions via Combined Photovoltaic and Solar Panel System)
ICT4EE 2010 (Brussels, Bergium - 23 & 24 February 2010)
Green and Connected Cities (Strasbourg, France - 10 & 11 December 2009) - Watch video
ELSA Thematic Working Group on ICT for energy efficiency (Brussels, Belgium, 8 October 2009)
NEM Summit 2009 (Saint-Malo, France - 28-30 September 2009)
Smart Electricity Networks - Demonstration of Smart Distribution Network Solutions - Contractors Meeting (Brussels, Belgium, 25 September 2009)
Project presentation by Ganesh Sauba (GL Group)
2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (Seoul, South Korea, 5-8 July 2009)
Publication: Implementation and Experimental Validation of a Real-Time PWM Algorithm based on B-Spline Carriers for Three Phase Voltage Source Inverters (F. Genduso, R. Miceli, and C. Rando)
International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (Capri, Italy, 9-11 June 2009)
Publication: A Mathematical Model to Determine the Electrical Energy Production in Photovoltaic Fields Under Mismatch Effect (V. Di Dio , D. La Cascia, R. Miceli Member IEEE, C. Rando)
Integration of Distributed on Site Control Actions via Combined PhotoVoltaic and Solar Panels System (G.C. Giaconia, G. Fiscelli, F. Lo Bue, A. Di Stefano, D. La Cascia, R. Miceli)
International Conference EVER 09 Electrical Vehicle and Renewable Energies - Monaco - March 26-29, 2009.
Publication: Impact of Novel Energy Management Actions on Household Appliances for Money Savings and CO2 Emissions Reduction (Rosario Miceli, Diego La Cascia, Antonio Di Stefano, Giuseppe Fiscelli, Costantino Giaconia) - Received the Best Paper Award!
ICT for Energy Efficiency - Brussels, Belgium - March 19 & 20, 2009
Demonstration of the project objectives and concepts
PARADISO Conference "ICT FOR A GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE FUTURE" - Brussels, Belgium - March 19 & 20, 2009
Presentation of the project by Alberto Garcia Munoz (Telefonica I+D)
Workshop on "Contribution of Domestic Appliances to the Integration of Renewables and DER" - Nice, France - December 9, 2008
ICT2008 - Lyon, France - November 27, 2008
Project overview by Pierre Plaza (Telefonica I+D) during the Networking Session "ICT for Energy Efficiency through Home Automation"

Upcoming events

Energy Efficiency Through Distributed Energy Management in Buildings Workshop in conjunction with E-Energy 2010 - Oct 14th-15th 2010 -Athens, Greece - Call for papers
Smart Homes 2010, 22-24 September, Vienna, Austria

All presentations made by representatives of the BeyWatch project will be made available for download on the present website. Stay tuned for more information!

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"ICTs as leverage technologies for energy efficiency"
Asunción Santamaría Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - CeDInt

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Pharm GE

"Red Eléctrica de España has a strong commitment with Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency and fully supports this projects objectives"
Susana Bañares Hernandez Red Electrica de España

"As a utility company in Spain, we consider this project as an enormous contribution to solve the challenges that are faced with in this sector during the next century."
Antonio Castellanos ENDESA Network Factory

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ICT for sustainable homes

Nov. 17-19, 2010
Plaza Hotel - Nice, France