IT Infrastructure for Energy Efficiency in Future Cities:

From the Smart Home to the Smart Grid

Chief Investigators: CS&IT: Prof. Zahir Tari, Dr Caspar Ryan, Dr Ibrahim Khalil

R & I (Director eResearch): Prof. Heinrich Schmidt

RMIT University Slide 2

Energy Efficiency? We can do better!Empower Individuals -> Smart HomesEmpower Business -> Smart IndustryEmpower Government -> Smart Grid

Smart IT Infrastructure

RMIT University Slide 3

Smart Homes

http://www.orble.com/the-smart-home-how-building-management-systems-integrate-technology-to-increase-energy-efficiency/

RMIT University Slide 4

Smart Metering

RMIT University Slide 5

Smart Industry

http://www.archrock.com

RMIT University Slide 6

Smart Grid

http://www.refer.eu.com/

Future Cities - The Most Complex and Heterogeneous Distributed System Ever!

RMIT CS & IT: Service-Oriented Architecture, Security and Privacy, Cloud Computing, Scheduling, Data Collection/Mining, Adaptation and Self-Healing Systems, Embedded Software Systems and Hardware Control Interfaces, Interoperability, etc.

Power Generation, Supply and Delivery

Large Scale Systems Modelling, Game Theory, Optimisation

Design and Architecture: Building Efficiency for Physical Spaces, Ergonomics/Usability for End User Devices (e.g. wearable computing, The Internet of Things)

RMIT University Slide 7