List of Workshops
First International Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys)
website: http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/
Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, such systems need to be designed in such a way that they can continuously increase the quality and productivity, as well as the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services can help to spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services.
Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. List of accepted papers
8:00 AM - Registration
8:45 - Welcome Address
10:00 - Coffee break
10:30 - Session 2: CPS Healthcare and IoT Services
12:00 - Lunch break
1:30 - Session 3: CPS Security and Reliability
3:00 - Coffee break
3:30 - NSF Special Session on Smart Service Systems
4:15 - Panel: Writing Winning Research Proposals: Successes and Pitfalls
5:00 - Workshop Closing Remarks
Second International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC)
website: http://ssc2016.unime.it
A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities both functionally and structurally, that strategically utilizes many smart factors, such as information and communications technology (ICT), to increase the city’s sustainable growth and strengthen city functions, while ensuring citizens’ quality of life and health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm of “objects” with which citizens interact daily: street furniture, public buildings, transportation, monuments, public lighting and much more. Moreover, a continuous monitoring of a city’s status occurs through sensors and processors applied within the real-world infrastructure. The Internet of Things (IoT) concept imagines all these objects being “smart”, connected to the Internet, and able to communicate with each other and with the external environment, interacting and sharing data and information. Each object in the IoT can be both the collector and distributor of information regarding mobility, energy consumption, air pollution as well as potentially offering cultural and tourist information. As a consequence, cyber and real worlds are strongly linked in a smart city. New services can be deployed when needed and evaluation mechanisms will be set up to assess the health and success of a smart city. The aim of this workshop is to bring together innovative developments in these and other areas related to sensors and smart cities. List of accepted papers
SSC Workshop Program
08:00 – Registration
08:30 – Opening Remarks
09:00 – Keynote session
10:00 – Coffee Break
10:30 – Technical Session 1
12:00 – Lunch
1:30 – Technical Session 2
3:00 – Coffee Break
3:30 – NSF Special Session on Smart Service Systems
4:15 – Panel: Writing Winning Research Proposals: Successes and Pitfalls
5:00 – Workshop closing remarks
Second International Workshop on Internet of Things for Healthcare (CANCELLED)
website: http://vco.ett.utu.fi/IoT4Health-SMARTCOMP-2016/
The emerging field of Internet of Things (IoT) holds a great potential to meet unmet needs of healthcare. However, to become applicable in clinical practice, IoT technologies demand research, development, testing, and trials, since these systems are intended to be a part of both hospitals and naturalistic environments such as homes. Moreover, the ever increasing popularity of Internet of Things is not without challenges, especially in healthcare, where its potential to enhance current healthcare systems is only matched with an alarming increase of security threats. At the same time, there is the need to preserve user’s right to privacy and right to be forgotten. This can only be accomplished through the introduction of novel anonymization techniques, systems support, and secure storage. The aim of this workshop is to initiate conversations among researchers, technologists, engineers, and clinicians to synergize their efforts in producing low-cost, high performance, highly efficient, deplorable IoT systems.
Smart Computing Systems for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
Moderator: Alex Rojas (Director of Distributed Technologies at Ameren)
ABSTRACT
In its latest evolution, the growth of distributed generation resources (DERs) has started challenging utilities when interconnected to their networks. Traditional operational models including sensing and computational tools, will not be enough to meet future needs. Specifically, the monitoring and control layer (sometimes referred to as the IT layer) will need transformation to adequately integrate DERs. This workshop will highlight technical and business issues around this exciting challenge.
PANELISTS
Moderator: Alex Rojas - Director of Distributed Technologies, Ameren
For over 20 years, Mr. Rojas has developed and later transferred technology to electrical utilities and large industries in the United States. Within the capital expenditure and regulatory constraints of his customers, he has lead and contributed in the fields of Smart Grid monitoring and control systems, renewable integration, energy storage integration, and predictive maintenance technologies. He has held leadership roles in challenging engineering positions at global technology groups, including Siemens, General Electric, and ABB. Mr. Rojas holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and Michigan State University and an MBA degree from Southern Methodist University.
Panelist: David B. Chiesa - Senior Director of Global Business Development, S&C Electric Co.
Mr. Chiesa is responsible for the Profitable growth of S&C's Market Segments Globally. This position is focused on expanding the reach of S&C's products and services within the Market Segments of Renewables, Energy Storage, Data Centers, Microgrids, and Reactive Compensation. He brings 16 years of experience in the direction and management of sales teams across the United States.
Mr. Chiesa began his career in the United States Army, serving as a maintenance company commander, a general officer aide-de-camp, and the U.S. forces maintenance manager for the NATO troops conducting peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the University of Maryland. He is a certified Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma quality program and is an active member of IEEE, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Panelist: Bob Meyers – Schneider Electric
Mr. Meyers has a combination of 27 years of experience in automation control, power management, and manufacturing execution systems between employment with Schneider Electric and Design Systems, Inc. He recently instituted process level metering at Schneider Electric’s paint operations in their manufacturing plants, and also contributed to project managing complex microgrid controls. He holds a master's degree in Engineering Management, and a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering Technology.
Panelist: Shashank Pande - Principal Software Architect, Siemens
Mr. Pande has over 20 years of experiences in design, development and delivery of control center software solutions. As a principal software architect for electrical power system control center software solutions at Siemens, Pande is a core developer of Siemens’ Energy Management System (EMS), and Energy Market Management System software. Mr. Pande was a lead architect for Siemens’ Microgrid Management Software System. He is considered a subject matter expert in the areas of automatic generation control, power system simulator, real time dispatch in energy market, optimal unit commitment and smart grid applications. Shashank holds a master’s degree in electrical power systems from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India, and a master’s degree in software engineering from University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Panelist: John M. Carroll - VP, Business Development, IPERC
John is a veteran of the power and renewable energy industry and brings over 28 years of experience in senior sales & marketing roles working for both large public companies and small start-up ventures. In his present role as VP of Business Development with IPERC, John is responsible for leading a worldwide sales & marketing team focused on commercial and government cybersecure microgrid deployments. By leveraging their enormous success as the microgrid controls provider for the Department of Energy’s SPIDERS program, IPERC has expanded considerably into commercial and municipal microgrid projects around the globe.
Immediately prior to joining IPERC, John spent 4 years as the Government Systems Business Unit Director for Petra Solar, a well-funded distributed solar microgrid start-up focused on US Government and major utility renewable energy systems. John is a well-respected speaker at various industry specific conferences and was a co-author of the US Navy’s power system purchasing policy, entitled NAVSO P-3641A.
John is also a Retired U.S. Navy Captain and a distinguished veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He holds a B.E. Electrical Engineering from NY Maritime College, an MBA from Adelphi University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Command & Staff College and the National Defense University.
DERS Workshop Program
Wednesday, May 18th 2016
1:30 PM – Welcome and Introductions - Alex Rojas, Ameren
1:40 PM - Operational and Business Drivers for DER Aggregation (also known as a microgrid); - Alex Rojas, Ameren
2:00 PM – DER Controllers – Primary, Secondary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies- Robert Meyers, Schneider
2:30 PM – DER integration Smart Hardware (i.e. inverters, fast static switches, etc) - David Chiesa, S&C
3:00 PM – Coffee Break
3:30 PM - DER Portfolio Optimization and Dispatch - Tertiary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies - Shashank Pande, Siemens
4:00 PM - Cybersecurity Considerations in DER Integration - John M. Carroll, IPERC
4:30 PM – Presenter Panel Discussion Audience welcomed to participate through questions and observations
5:00 PM – Adjourn
DESCRIPTION OF PRESENTATIONS
Operational and Business Drivers for DER Aggregation (also known as a microgrid)
In any size electrical grid, frequency regulation is associated with the instantaneous balance between sources and sinks of real power. Conversely, voltage regulation is related to reactive power balance. When relatively small DERs are connected to large control systems, such as PJM’s or MISO’s, the rotational inertia of the network brings stability to system. Then, economic and/or emissions based dispatch may take precedence over balancing Watts and VARs. However, during off-grid operation, the group of DERs form a microgrid that requires fast acting sensor and control systems due to the loss of inertia.
While not completely disconnecting from the utility’s grid; business drivers persuading Commercial and Industrial (C&I) energy users to deploy and aggregate DERs include:
The presenters that follow come from leading vendors of control technology offering extensive portfolios of primary, secondary and tertiary control. Their assigned topic does not represent any limitation around their ability to address complex customer needs.
DER Controllers – Primary, Secondary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies
In the context of frequency and voltage regulation, these control functions are broadly classified in two categories:
DER Portfolio Optimization and Dispatch - Tertiary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies
Generally not adequately addressed by rule-based control systems, tertiary control involves software. Temporal requirements are less stringent, typically several minutes. Functions include:
website: http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/
Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, such systems need to be designed in such a way that they can continuously increase the quality and productivity, as well as the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services can help to spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services.
Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. List of accepted papers
8:00 AM - Registration
8:45 - Welcome Address
10:00 - Coffee break
10:30 - Session 2: CPS Healthcare and IoT Services
12:00 - Lunch break
1:30 - Session 3: CPS Security and Reliability
3:00 - Coffee break
3:30 - NSF Special Session on Smart Service Systems
4:15 - Panel: Writing Winning Research Proposals: Successes and Pitfalls
5:00 - Workshop Closing Remarks
Second International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC)
website: http://ssc2016.unime.it
A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities both functionally and structurally, that strategically utilizes many smart factors, such as information and communications technology (ICT), to increase the city’s sustainable growth and strengthen city functions, while ensuring citizens’ quality of life and health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm of “objects” with which citizens interact daily: street furniture, public buildings, transportation, monuments, public lighting and much more. Moreover, a continuous monitoring of a city’s status occurs through sensors and processors applied within the real-world infrastructure. The Internet of Things (IoT) concept imagines all these objects being “smart”, connected to the Internet, and able to communicate with each other and with the external environment, interacting and sharing data and information. Each object in the IoT can be both the collector and distributor of information regarding mobility, energy consumption, air pollution as well as potentially offering cultural and tourist information. As a consequence, cyber and real worlds are strongly linked in a smart city. New services can be deployed when needed and evaluation mechanisms will be set up to assess the health and success of a smart city. The aim of this workshop is to bring together innovative developments in these and other areas related to sensors and smart cities. List of accepted papers
SSC Workshop Program
08:00 – Registration
08:30 – Opening Remarks
09:00 – Keynote session
10:00 – Coffee Break
10:30 – Technical Session 1
12:00 – Lunch
1:30 – Technical Session 2
3:00 – Coffee Break
3:30 – NSF Special Session on Smart Service Systems
4:15 – Panel: Writing Winning Research Proposals: Successes and Pitfalls
5:00 – Workshop closing remarks
Second International Workshop on Internet of Things for Healthcare (CANCELLED)
website: http://vco.ett.utu.fi/IoT4Health-SMARTCOMP-2016/
The emerging field of Internet of Things (IoT) holds a great potential to meet unmet needs of healthcare. However, to become applicable in clinical practice, IoT technologies demand research, development, testing, and trials, since these systems are intended to be a part of both hospitals and naturalistic environments such as homes. Moreover, the ever increasing popularity of Internet of Things is not without challenges, especially in healthcare, where its potential to enhance current healthcare systems is only matched with an alarming increase of security threats. At the same time, there is the need to preserve user’s right to privacy and right to be forgotten. This can only be accomplished through the introduction of novel anonymization techniques, systems support, and secure storage. The aim of this workshop is to initiate conversations among researchers, technologists, engineers, and clinicians to synergize their efforts in producing low-cost, high performance, highly efficient, deplorable IoT systems.
Smart Computing Systems for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
Moderator: Alex Rojas (Director of Distributed Technologies at Ameren)
ABSTRACT
In its latest evolution, the growth of distributed generation resources (DERs) has started challenging utilities when interconnected to their networks. Traditional operational models including sensing and computational tools, will not be enough to meet future needs. Specifically, the monitoring and control layer (sometimes referred to as the IT layer) will need transformation to adequately integrate DERs. This workshop will highlight technical and business issues around this exciting challenge.
PANELISTS
Moderator: Alex Rojas - Director of Distributed Technologies, Ameren
For over 20 years, Mr. Rojas has developed and later transferred technology to electrical utilities and large industries in the United States. Within the capital expenditure and regulatory constraints of his customers, he has lead and contributed in the fields of Smart Grid monitoring and control systems, renewable integration, energy storage integration, and predictive maintenance technologies. He has held leadership roles in challenging engineering positions at global technology groups, including Siemens, General Electric, and ABB. Mr. Rojas holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and Michigan State University and an MBA degree from Southern Methodist University.
Panelist: David B. Chiesa - Senior Director of Global Business Development, S&C Electric Co.
Mr. Chiesa is responsible for the Profitable growth of S&C's Market Segments Globally. This position is focused on expanding the reach of S&C's products and services within the Market Segments of Renewables, Energy Storage, Data Centers, Microgrids, and Reactive Compensation. He brings 16 years of experience in the direction and management of sales teams across the United States.
Mr. Chiesa began his career in the United States Army, serving as a maintenance company commander, a general officer aide-de-camp, and the U.S. forces maintenance manager for the NATO troops conducting peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the University of Maryland. He is a certified Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma quality program and is an active member of IEEE, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Panelist: Bob Meyers – Schneider Electric
Mr. Meyers has a combination of 27 years of experience in automation control, power management, and manufacturing execution systems between employment with Schneider Electric and Design Systems, Inc. He recently instituted process level metering at Schneider Electric’s paint operations in their manufacturing plants, and also contributed to project managing complex microgrid controls. He holds a master's degree in Engineering Management, and a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering Technology.
Panelist: Shashank Pande - Principal Software Architect, Siemens
Mr. Pande has over 20 years of experiences in design, development and delivery of control center software solutions. As a principal software architect for electrical power system control center software solutions at Siemens, Pande is a core developer of Siemens’ Energy Management System (EMS), and Energy Market Management System software. Mr. Pande was a lead architect for Siemens’ Microgrid Management Software System. He is considered a subject matter expert in the areas of automatic generation control, power system simulator, real time dispatch in energy market, optimal unit commitment and smart grid applications. Shashank holds a master’s degree in electrical power systems from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India, and a master’s degree in software engineering from University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Panelist: John M. Carroll - VP, Business Development, IPERC
John is a veteran of the power and renewable energy industry and brings over 28 years of experience in senior sales & marketing roles working for both large public companies and small start-up ventures. In his present role as VP of Business Development with IPERC, John is responsible for leading a worldwide sales & marketing team focused on commercial and government cybersecure microgrid deployments. By leveraging their enormous success as the microgrid controls provider for the Department of Energy’s SPIDERS program, IPERC has expanded considerably into commercial and municipal microgrid projects around the globe.
Immediately prior to joining IPERC, John spent 4 years as the Government Systems Business Unit Director for Petra Solar, a well-funded distributed solar microgrid start-up focused on US Government and major utility renewable energy systems. John is a well-respected speaker at various industry specific conferences and was a co-author of the US Navy’s power system purchasing policy, entitled NAVSO P-3641A.
John is also a Retired U.S. Navy Captain and a distinguished veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He holds a B.E. Electrical Engineering from NY Maritime College, an MBA from Adelphi University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Command & Staff College and the National Defense University.
DERS Workshop Program
Wednesday, May 18th 2016
1:30 PM – Welcome and Introductions - Alex Rojas, Ameren
1:40 PM - Operational and Business Drivers for DER Aggregation (also known as a microgrid); - Alex Rojas, Ameren
2:00 PM – DER Controllers – Primary, Secondary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies- Robert Meyers, Schneider
2:30 PM – DER integration Smart Hardware (i.e. inverters, fast static switches, etc) - David Chiesa, S&C
3:00 PM – Coffee Break
3:30 PM - DER Portfolio Optimization and Dispatch - Tertiary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies - Shashank Pande, Siemens
4:00 PM - Cybersecurity Considerations in DER Integration - John M. Carroll, IPERC
4:30 PM – Presenter Panel Discussion Audience welcomed to participate through questions and observations
5:00 PM – Adjourn
DESCRIPTION OF PRESENTATIONS
Operational and Business Drivers for DER Aggregation (also known as a microgrid)
In any size electrical grid, frequency regulation is associated with the instantaneous balance between sources and sinks of real power. Conversely, voltage regulation is related to reactive power balance. When relatively small DERs are connected to large control systems, such as PJM’s or MISO’s, the rotational inertia of the network brings stability to system. Then, economic and/or emissions based dispatch may take precedence over balancing Watts and VARs. However, during off-grid operation, the group of DERs form a microgrid that requires fast acting sensor and control systems due to the loss of inertia.
While not completely disconnecting from the utility’s grid; business drivers persuading Commercial and Industrial (C&I) energy users to deploy and aggregate DERs include:
- Energy security, reliability and availability
- Meeting of Energy Policy Targets
- Green branding
- Educational tool
- Emergency services (shelters)
- Cost of energy
The presenters that follow come from leading vendors of control technology offering extensive portfolios of primary, secondary and tertiary control. Their assigned topic does not represent any limitation around their ability to address complex customer needs.
DER Controllers – Primary, Secondary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies
In the context of frequency and voltage regulation, these control functions are broadly classified in two categories:
- Primary Control - predominantly local, fast time scale, autonomous and acting on individual DERs. While sensing and control action is individual; it must be coordinated with higher control levels. Examples include: solar PV inverter controllers, natural gas generator governor controls, and similar.
- Secondary Control - has a wider control and sensing area on a slower time scale. It coordinates control action across various DERs. It must be coordinated with lower control levels; and higher according the operational requirements. Examples include: SCADA, data concentration, and similar.
DER Portfolio Optimization and Dispatch - Tertiary Control/Monitoring Functions and Strategies
Generally not adequately addressed by rule-based control systems, tertiary control involves software. Temporal requirements are less stringent, typically several minutes. Functions include:
- Economic generation portfolio dispatch
- Economic load dispatch (for non-critical loads; also known as demand response)
- Emissions-based generation portfolio dispatch
- DER dispatch optimization based on cost; or emissions; or both
- Day/hour ahead load forecast (based on historical load profile and weather data)
- Day/hour ahead generation forecast (based on weather, natural gas fuel price, etc )
- Day/hour ahead energy export forecast (based on load and generation forecast)
