From the 9th to 12th of June Luis Lino participated on the Arrowhead Multi-Workpackage Meeting, which was held in Stavanger, Norway. During this meeting all pilot-related tasks demonstrated their main achievements by showing around 15 different demo installations running partially on existing Arrowhead technologies.
In this meeting CISTER/INESC-TEC showed a prototype of a system which applies the flex-offer concept (a kind of energy demand-response) on the control of a legacy devices, whose operation can be controlled by smart grid applications. These legacy devices can be almost any kind of electric devices which have some flexibility on the amount of energy to be consumed and on the time when that energy is consumed. Examples of these devices are washing machines, electric heater, heat-pumps, air-conditioning, etc.
The software, implemented by César Teixeira in close cooperation with Danish partners, can now be used, with the minor adaptations, on any other Arrowhead pilot that wishes to implement the flex-offer concept.
Arrowhead belongs to the first group of very large Artemis AIPP projects. It has an overall budget of around 90 million Euros, involving most European countries. Besides ISEP (through CISTER/INESC-TEC), the Arrowhead project involves key European industrial players such as Acciona (SP), Airbus Operations (FR), FIAT (IT), Ford (UK), Honeywell (CZ), INDRA (SP), Infineon (AT), NXP (FR), Schneider Electric (FR), STMicroelectronics (IT), and Thales (FR).
The Arrowhead project addresses cooperative automation and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Service Oriented Architectures. The project will provide a technical framework adapted to such systems. Implementation and evaluation will be through real deployments in various applicative domains: electro-mobility; smart buildings; infrastructures and smart cities; industrial production; energy production and energy virtual market.
More information at: http://www.arrowhead.eu/
