• Comprehensive validation of an ICT platform to support energy efficiency in future smart grid scenarios 

      López López, Gregorio; Soares Moura, Pedro; Sikora, Marek; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de (Sin editorial (Bolonia, Italia), 14/11/2011)
      The steady increase of electricity consumption in the EU household sector during the last decades, has made energy efficiency within this scope to become a major issue both for European Commission and for utilities. As a ...
    • Energy saving information platform (ENERsip), ICT Infrastructure for energy-positive buildings and neighbourhoods 

      Kantsepolsky, Boris; Soares Moura, Pedro; Almeida, Anibal T. de; López López, Gregorio; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Morillo Molinuevo, Rafael; Lev, Leonid; Cohen, Any (Sin editorial (Eilat, Israel), 17/11/2010)
      Industrial development and global energy consumption growth have impacted dramatically the energy market as well as the environment. Therefore, energy positive buildings supporting matching of energy consumption and ...
    • ENERsip: M2M-based platform to enable energy efficiency within energy-positive neighbourhoods 

      López López, Gregorio; Soares Moura, Pedro; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de (Sin editorial (Shanghai, China), 10/04/2011)
      This paper presents the main features of the EU R&D project ENERsip. The main objective of this FP7 ICT project is to design, develop, and test an adaptive service-oriented M2M-based platform that enables optimizing, in ...
    • Impact of residential demand response on the integration of intermittent renewable generation into the smart grid 

      Soares Moura, Pedro; López López, Gregorio; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de (Sin editorial (Coimbra, Portugal), 11/09/2013)
      The deployment of renewable generation infrastructures, such as photovoltaic and wind power, have been leading to a dramatically increase on the variability and randomness of energy generation, thus increasing the complexity ...
    • In-house monitoring and control network for the smart grid of the future 

      Melo Carreiro, Andreia; López López, Gregorio; Soares Moura, Pedro; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de; Malaquias, José Luís (Sin editorial (Mánchester, Reino Unido), 05/12/2011)
      Electricity consumption in the household has been steadily increasing during the last decades, becoming a major problem for utilities, customers, and the environment. Smart metering systems are not enough to reduce such ...
    • Monitoring and control platform for energy efficiency in smart buildings 

      Soares Moura, Pedro; López López, Gregorio; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de (Sin editorial (Presqu'île de Giens, Francia), 03/06/2013)
      The increasing energy consumption in the residential sector and the growing penetration of renewable generation in build-ings have been leading to the need of smarter buildings. In or-der to reduce the energy consumption, ...
    • The role of smart grids to foster energy efficiency 

      Soares Moura, Pedro; López López, Gregorio; Moreno Novella, Jose Ignacio; Almeida, Anibal T. de (01/11/2013)
      The traditional electricity grid has remained the same for most of last century, without major architectural improvements. However, its requirements, guidelines and goals do have changed, especially during the last few ...