Successful Review of European Project ENCOURAGE

CISTER researchers Luis Miguel Pinho and Michele Albano, participated in the 2nd of October in the second year review meeting of the ENCOURAGE project, which took place in the University of Aalborg, Denmark. The meeting was bracketed by internal consortium meetings, for review preparation (Oct 1st) and follow-up activities (Oct 3rd).

The ENCOURAGE project, of the FP7/ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems Initiative, aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy usage in buildings with renewable energy and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment.

In the ENCOURAGE project, CISTER is leader of the WP8 Work package (exploitation, dissemination and standardization) and of the T2.3 task, responsible for defining the ENCOURAGE architecture. During this second year, CISTER also had to take the role of responsible for the specification and development of the ENCOURAGE middleware (and in particular of its messaging system), after the funding problems of the initially foreseen partner.

The proactive actions of CISTER in solving this setback, and the quality of the performed work (done by the CISTER team Luis Ferreira, Michele Albano and César Teixeira), was explicitly commended by the Artemis-JU Project Officer in the review summary, particularly as it allowed a very smooth integration process of all ENCOURAGE modules.

The results of this review are successful, as the reviewers provided a positive feedback to the project work, accepting all technical deliverables submitted. In particular the reviewers appraised the demonstration of some of the project results in the demo site of a private house near Aalborg, and of the energy management tools.

In the follow-up meeting, the project consortium set the objectives and planned activities for the next Milestone, where further demonstrations of the project results and integration activities will be performed at the Terrassa campus in Barcelona, Spain.

More information at: http://www.encourage-project.eu/