MidSEE 2015 - Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy (MidSEE 2015)

Smart energy meters are increasingly installed in newly constructed buildings worldwide, as regulated by e.g., the European Union’s Energy Services Directive. Their combination with the vision of an Internet of Things, in which billions of embedded devices will continually monitor the environment, enables the fine-grained monitoring of household and office energy usage, and hence a large range of novel services. While many such functions have been devised so far (e.g., advice how to save energy or the disaggregation of electricity bills), these solutions commonly rely on the availability of hard- and software systems by a single manufacturer. Interoperability, including the potential to integrate new energy metering devices, is mostly unsupported due to the wide variety of (non-compatible) standards and communication protocols.
This workshop will provide a platform to present current research activities in communications and processing of energy consumption data, with its primary focus on electric energy usage. The scope of the workshop includes contributions that address the integration of energy metering equipment from different manufacturers into a single middleware system which operates on a building level, as well as novel means to collect, process and visualize these data. Accepted papers will not only present novel research results in these domains, but also comprise an evaluation in which their merits are assessed.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Novel energy metering hardware designs and experiences
Data collection and command distribution protocols for energy management systems
Middleware systems for energy data, including novel local data processing algorithms
Control of alternative energy sources to increase their production efficiency
Innovative tools to model and visualize energy expenditure and production
Sensing and actuation of electrical loads
Privacy and security in energy management middleware systems
User interfaces for energy display, management and control