PerEnergy 2017 - Third IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services

A wealth of unexplored knowledge exists in the power data collected from smart meters and smart plugs (i.e., metering equipment for individual wall outlets). Analysis of the data may be used to provide context-based services (e.g., presence detection), but also serves as the foundation for novel services (e.g. automated recommendations for energy savings). To date, the potential of this domain has barely been explored, although more and more energy data is becoming available due to the increasing number of deployed smart metering equipment. At the moment, one of the most important research challenges in smart energy systems is thus the creation of value-added services that exploit the information content in energy generation and consumption data such that they can inspire new functionalities and context models.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations of recent advances in the numerous opportunities opened up by the use of energy data in context-aware systems. It furthermore serves as a forum for the smart energy research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions, and future development of smart energy management systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed infrastructures for collecting energy data and relevant context information
- Experiences with experimental power metering system prototypes and pilots
- Novel system architectures for pervasive energy services
- Scalable system concepts and algorithms for processing and analyzing energy data
- Exploitation of energy data and context information for the optimized control of distributed loads and energy sources (in particular, renewable sources)
- Energy services for smart home and office spaces, including energy optimization and sustainable operation of smart cities, load disaggregation, generation and load forecasting, and informed load shifting
- Use cases and user studies of pervasive energy services highlighting research gaps
- Experiences with prototypes and pilots of smart energy applications and services
- Privacy, safety, and security in pervasive energy services
- Experiences with energy metering installations and data sets for the comparison of consumer characteristics in a globalized world
- Energy meter integration in the design and architecture of smart home and office spaces