ICT for sustainable homes will include, on November 18, the Beywatch Scientific Workshop. The workshop is intended to be a forum of specialists coming from both universities and industries, involved in the above mentioned areas. They will have the opportunity to share their scientific, technical, business and social experiences with other attendees coming from all over the world, through the presentation and the discussion of their recent works in the conference sessions. Details of the sessions can be found in the Event Agenda section.

Workshop Topics include:

Energy aware electric drives for home appliances
a. Electric machines design and optimization
b. Power converters design and optimization
c. Control algorithms for losses minimization
d. Monitoring and diagnostics

Storage and smart grids for renewable energies usage
a. Battery and utracapacitors
b. Fuel cells integration in smart grids
c. Renewable energies micro generation systems
d. Smart grids management

ICT for energy efficiency in buildings
a. Wireless sensor networks
b. Home networking
c. Embedded systems for energy efficient buildings
d. Low power electronic systems for low data rate communications

Call for Papers

A pdf version of the Call for Papers can be downloaded here.

Prospective authors are invited to submit comprehensive abstrac of two three A4 pages each, writte in English, including author(s) name, mail and e-mail addresses and the preferred topic. Abstracts should be sent by email to info@ict-sustainablehomes.org.

Important dates:

30/07/2010 submission of abstract
31/08/2010 notification of provisional acceptances
26/09/2010 submission of full papers
15/10/2010 notification of final acceptances

Program Committee Members

Chairman: Rosario Miceli, University of Palermo, Italy
Co-Chairman: Costantino Giaconia, University of Palermo, Italy
Riva San Severino Stefano, University of Palermo, Italy
Tinnirello Ilenia, University of Palermo, Italy
Giuseppe Bianchi, University Tor Vergata of Rome, Italy
Ahmed Masmoudi, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Alain Berton, Catholic University of Leuven