Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts

Chapter Five

Information and Communication Technology for EPN

K.A. Ellis^*

D. Pesch^**

M. Klepal^**

M. Look^†

T. Greifenberg^†

M. Boudon^‡

D. Kelly^*

C. Upton^**    IoT Systems Research Lab, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation, Ireland^**    NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland^†    Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany^‡    EMBIX, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are pervasive in our urban neighborhoods, not just in terms of traditional computing devices but also in terms of embedded monitoring and control systems that manage our environment, in particular the energy consumption of our buildings, homes, outdoor lighting systems, ...