CERCIA is hosting a workshop on 'Intelligent Energy Monitoring' to launch the ICT Innovation club at the University of Birmingham. The 'Intelligent ICT solutions' innovation club at the University of Birmingham is established in association with AWM ICT cluster to provide a forum for end users, businesses and academic experts to discuss challenges and exchange ideas with a view to develop innovative solutions enabling economic gain.
A recent UK government energy white paper outlined the importance of advanced metering systems in improving energy efficiency by providing an understanding of energy consumption through smart metering. However, it is not clear how the large amount of data captured from these meters is actually going to be used. For example, a site like the University of Birmingham will have significantly more than 500 streams of data, each of which should be checked at least daily in order to ensure problems are spotted early. The aim of this event is to address these issues and the challenges faced by both customers and service providers of smart metering and explore potential future directions for Computational Intelligence techniques in this area.
A flyer about the day is available.
The programme for the day along is given below:
| Start Time | What |
| 10:00 | Arrive/coffee |
| 10:30 | Richard Leary – COG Chair for ICT Cluster "Introduction: Today is my favourite day" |
| 10:40 | Tim Clarke - The Regional Innovation Company "Dealing with Detailed Energy Consumption Data from Multiple Businesses within a Geographic Cluster" |
| 11:10 | Kris Szajdzicki - Northern Design Meters "Advanced Metering Systems Across the Internet" |
| 11:40 | Thorsten Schnier - Cercia "What Can We Do With All This Data? Computational Intelligence for Energy Data Analysis" |
| 12:10 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Vilnis Vesma - NIFES Energy Consultancy "Hidden Avoidable Waste" |
| 13:30 | W H Tang - University of Liverpool "Intelligent Condition Monitoring for Power Apparatus" |
| 14:00 | Xiaoli Li - Cercia "Advanced Signal Processing in Energy Monitoring Systems" |
| 15:00 | Workshop "The Future of Energy Management" |
| 16:00 | Finish |
This workshop is open to participants from both industry and academia. There is no registration fee but registration is required. Registration will be on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please send an email indicating your interest (along with any special dietary / access requirements) to:
Vish Madhugiri - V.Madhugiri@cercia.ac.uk
