ICT for sustainable homes 2010 will include four scientific workshops addressing issues related to ICT for energy efficient homes. The workshops, that will be held in parallel to the conference thematic sessions, are the following:

• the Beywatch Workshop, on issues related to ICT for energy efficient homes and neighbourhoods,
• the Workshop on the European RTD roadmap on ICT for energy efficiency, organised by  the EU-funded REEB, REViSITE and ICT4E2B Forum projects
• the Workshop on Data Models for ICT4EE: the DKE German Roadmap for Standardisation of E-Energy/Smart Gridsunderlines that the Grid will require a higher level of syntactic and semantic interoperability of all the components and systems involved: Data models and semantics/syntax of components and systems. We need the development of ontology’s governing all sub-systems and data sources on high semantic level, and ontology based access services for integration of all information sources. This session will discuss about the high level data models and the messaging systems needed from the small meters to the big BMS’s
• the Workshop on Energy Efficiency measurements and validation methodology for pilots: there is an important lack of homogeneous information about the energy savings provided by the ICT4EE solutions. We are far from having a homogeneous methodological approach that could make the results of our RTD projects clearly readable, comparable and visible and show clear return on investment figures. In September GESI, the GLOBAL e-SUSTAINABILITY Initiative has promised to publish a report on that issue. This workshop is to discuss this and other methodological advances.

More details about the workshop, including agenda, as well as the thematic sessions will be made available in the next days