Sigma Orionis and the BeyWatch project have organised their third international conference and exhibition, entitled «ICT for Sustainable Homes» on 24-25 October in Nice, France.

The ICT for Sustainable Homes: the “not-to-be-missed” event for all those interested in the ICT for Energy Efficiency and Future Internet field

The event is organised by Sigma Orionis in cooperation with the Beywatch project and supported by the European Commission’s DG Information Society and Media in close cooperation with key industrial and academic players worldwide, has become the “not-to-be-missed” annual occasion to meet key stakeholders, access up-to-date information, discover the latest trends, identify research and business opportunities, find new partners, increase the visibility of projects and initiatives, and a key networking opportunity.

ICT for Sustainable Homes 2011 exhibitors included R&D projects funded under the European Commission’s FP7 programme (or other related programmes) and addressing energy efficient homes and neighbourhoods at large.  After the first two successful editions, the 2011 event welcomes over 100 delegates from 14 countries (see attendee list), 32 speakers, over 20 projects and 9 exhibitors representatives of leading collaborative research projects and industrial organisations.

The ICT for sustainable homes conference and exhibition was devoted to the challenges faced to achieve the sustainable home: greener homes, more meaningful and affordable products, new markets at the international scale, health, security, communication, knowledge and learning, etc.
To address those topics, the conference was divited into 6 thematic sessions, 2 co-located workshops, featuring 32 high-level speakers, including 6 keynote speakers:

• Karine Valin, Managing Director of Sigma Orionis
• Frédéric Bauchot, Chief Architect, E&U Solutions Center, IBM
• Yves Dherbécourt, EDF – R&D
• Olivier Courtade, CEO M2MSolution
• Alain Zarli, CSTB
• Kevin O’Donovan , Global Sales Director, Intel Corporation

All presentations made during the conference can be downloaded as pdf files in the program section of this website.

Sigma Orionis and Beywatch are pleased to announce that participants of ICT for Sustainable Homes will have the opportunity to visit the “Scientific and Technical Centre for Building” of CSTB in Nice, France.

The visit will take place in the afternoon of Octobre 25, 2011, 14:30 – 16:00.

Program of the visit

♦ GerHome lab (GerHome website)
♦ The Immersion Room ‘Le Corbusier’ (Immersive Room website)
♦ Solar lab (LEPS website)

CSTB (Scientific and Technical Centre for Building) is a French public industrial and commercial establishment under the joint supervision of the Minister of Housing and the Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea (Habitat, Town Planning and Countryside Directorate).

It works alongside its subsidiaries to support innovation and act as a trustworthy third party in the building industry, to develop, capitalize and share essential scientific and technical knowledge with its partners and customers so that buildings and their environment provide solutions to sustainable development challenges. It is one of the major players in innovation for the quality and safety of sustainable construction.

Its missions:

• To provide a solution to sustainable development challenges by imple- menting an integrated approach to construction, to improve environmental and energy performances taking account of safety and health, adapting to users’ needs and achieving economic competitiveness.

• Innovate confidently, from the conception of a product/process until feedback from experience. Research workers, engineers and experts in evaluation and certification, specialists in dissemination of knowledge gather, opti- mize and apply research results.

• Accompany all construction players at all scales of the structure during construction from facilities, products and materials to buildings and their integration into districts and towns.

The “engineering of innovation and services” division is specialized in the design and experimentation of ICT solutions for energy efficiency in construction. It contributes to several EU collaborative R&D projects, and coordinates the REEB initiative: the European Strategic Research Roadmap to ICT enabled Energy-Efficiency in Building and Construction.

For more information about the “Scientific and Technical Centre for Building”, please visit CSTB website.

More details on 2011 conference program are available here.

Only few places left to take part in the visit, register now!

Sigma Orionis and Beywatch are pleased to announce that participants of ICT for Sustainable Homes will have the opportunity to visit the “Industry Solution Center” of IBM in La Gaude, France.

The visit will take place in the afternoon of Octobre 25, 2011, 16:30 – 17:30.

Program of the visit:

♦ Introduction du Business Solution Center
♦ Solution de Consumer Energy Management et Control
♦ Smart City
♦ Smart Building

The IBM Forum La Gaude (France) is home to the “Industry Solution Center”, a center to explore dedicated industry-oriented solutions for clients and partners. It is a unique place to envision how innovative solutions and leading-edge technologies help solve business challenges and visualize how instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions allow to build a smarter planet.

This visit is especially designed by IBM experts to show you the most relevant technologies and solutions for your industry.

For more information about the “Industry Solution Center”, please visit the IBM “Industry Solution Center” website.

More details on 2011 conference program are available here.

Only few places left to take part in the visit, register now!

Sigma Orionis and the Beywatch project are pleased to announce that Myxyty will be among the exhibitors at the third edition of the ICT for sustainable homes conference and exhibition on Oct. 24-25, 2011 in Nice, France.

More information about Myxyty here.

Exhibition Layout

Exhibitors

ICT for Sustainable Homes (October 24-25, 2011 – Nice, France) is approaching. Only 3 weeks left to register to the not-to-be-missed conference and exhibition.

REViSITE (Roadmap Enabling Vision and Strategy for ICT-enabled Energy Efficiency) brings together experts and stakeholders in ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) to develop a shared vision of the ICT4EE research agenda for future.

REViSITE is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The project consortium consists of academic and industrial partners throughout Europe.

REViSITE will contribute to the formation of a European multidisciplinary ‘ICT for energy-efficiency’ research community by bringing together the ICT community and four important and complementary application sectors: Smart Grids, Smart Building, Smart Manufacturing and Smart Lighting.

More information about this project, click here

Sigma Orionis and the Beywatch project are pleased to announce that the GreenerBuildings project will be among the exhibitors at the third edition of the ICT for sustainable homes conference and exhibition on Oct. 24-25, 2011 in Nice, France.

GreenerBuildings is an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) project funded under the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) on Engineering of Networked Monitoring and Control Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects.

GreenerBuildings develops an integrated solution for energy-aware adaptation of public buildings. It investigates self-powered sensors and actuators, occupant activity and behaviour inference, and an embedded software for coordinating thousands of smart objects with the goals of energy saving and user support.

GreenerBuildings embraces the following key principles in order to achieve its goals: living-lab experimentation and validation, an agile interdisciplinary consortium, and a user centric approach. In particular, the validation will consider test cases with at least 1.000 networked devices deployed in living-lab buildings.

More information about this project, click here

Sigma Orionis and the Beywatch project are pleased to announce that the PEBBLE project will be among the exhibitors at the third edition of the ICT for sustainable homes conference and exhibition on Oct. 24-25, 2011 in Nice, France.

PEBBLE (Positive Energy Buildings thru Better ControL DEcisions) is an FP7 Project supported by the European Commission, ICT for Energy Efficiency.

In the design and operation of positive-energy buildings a pragmatic target is maximization of the actual net energy produced (NEP) by intelligently shaping demand to perform generation-consumption matching. To achieve this, informed decisions in (almost) real-time are required to operate building subsystems and to account for unpredictable user-behavior and changing weather conditions. These decisions have direct consequences to occupant thermal comfort, energy efficiency and, ultimately, to the NEP. The complex interplay between the many parameters precludes empiricism or rule-based decisions and necessitates the development of generic decision tools.

With the belief that maximization of the NEP for Positive-Energy Buildings is attained thru Better ControL dEcisions (PEBBLE), a control and optimization ICT methodology that combines model-based predictive control and cognitive-based adaptive optimization is proposed. There are three essential ingredients to the PEBBLE system: first, thermal simulation models, that are accurate representations of the building and its subsystems; second, sensors, actuators, and user interfaces to facilitate communication between the physical and simulation layers; and third, generic control and optimization tools that use the sensor inputs and the thermal models to take intelligent decisions. Building occupants have a dual sensor-actuator role in the PEBBLE framework: through user-interfaces humans act as sensors communicating their thermal comfort preferences to the PEBBLE system, and in return the PEBBLE system returns information with the goal of enhancing energy-awareness of the users. The generality of the proposed methodology affords a universality that transcends regional, behavioral, environmental or other variations. For this reason, the PEBBLE system will be demonstrated and evaluated in three buildings possessing a variety of design and performance characteristics, located at different places across Europe.

Project PEBBLE is not just about improved energy-efficiency or generation-consumption matching, it is about utilizing harmoniously, and most effectively all installed systems in a building, taking into account human factors, and adapting the decisions in (almost) real-time as and when uncertainties occur.

More information about this project, click here

Sigma Orionis is very pleased to announce that the “Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from ongoing Research Projects” workshop will be jointly organised by the five projects E3SoHo, SportE2, Energy Warden, EnRiMa and Tibucon on October 24, 2011 (16:00-17:30).

Agenda

• 16:00

  Welcome and Introduction Chaired by Christian Mastrodonato, ICT4E2B Forum project

• 16:05

  "Energy Audits - Are they and should they be standardised? What is the difference between audits for EPBD and ICT implementation? What to do with them?", Enrico Sabbatini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Partner of the SportE2 project

• 16:20

  "DSS systems: Modelling energy flows at both operational and strategic levels", Dr. Krystsina Bakhrankova, SINTEF, Partner of EnRiMa project, Norway

• 16:35

  "Measurement & Verification (IPMVP). How do we assess energy savings? IPMVP – from theory to practice. Is it working?", Nicolas Salmon, NOBATEK, Partner of E3SoHo project, France

• 16:50

  "Which Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) are appropriate for my home? How should I account for weather aspects?", Christian Mastrodonato, D’Appolonia, Partner of the Energy Warden project

• 17:05

  "Survey of Potential Energy Harvesting Solutions for use in the Built Environment", Piotr Dymarski, MOSTOSTAL, Coordinator of the Tibucon Project

• 17:20

  Challenges & Opportunities: Panel Discussion and Conclusions Moderated by Christian Mastrodonato, ICT4E2B Forum project

Click here to download the workshop agenda.