CISTER's researchers Luis Miguel Pinho and Michele Albano attended 28th/29th of May the ENCOURAGE general face-to-face assembly, which took place in the facilities of UPC, in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
The ENCOURAGE project, of the FP7/ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems Initiative, aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy use in buildings with renewable energy and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment. Within the project, CISTER was responsible for the task specifying the overall architecture and it is one of the main drivers of the middleware messaging infrastructure.
Parallel to the general assembly, a technical meeting took place to finish the work on the initial release of the project middleware components, an important step to meet the project's 3rd Milestone (Integration Readiness). The ENCOURAGE GA also addressed the detailed planning of work for the implementation of the first demonstrator, which will take place in the 2nd year review, next October in Aalborg, Denmark.
More information at:
http://www.encourage-project.eu/
