SM4ALL Project

SM4All goes green: Cooperation agreement with Taiwan's ITRI signed

Monday, 21 December 2009 08:13

The partners of the SM4All consortium have signed a cooperation agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI, http://www.itri.org.tw/) with the endorsement of the European Commission.

The cooperation, that will last till the end of the SM4All project, will bring to the project the valuable expertise of the Home Energy Management System group of ITRI. In particular, Energy efficiency, domotic devices, power measuring technologies and demand analysis solutions will be coupled with the research efforts on smart home middleware developed within SM4All. In this context, the researchers at ITRI will carry out the definition of a detailed energy consumption model based on the operation of smart appliances and embedded into the framework defined by the SM4ALL project and will set up a detailed showcase