ENERsip: ENERgy Saving Information Platform for Generation and Consumption Networks

The main goal of ENERsip project is to create an adaptive, customizable and service-oriented energy monitoring and control system by active and proactively coordinating energy, communications, control, computing and construction for near real-time generation and consumption matching in residential, commercial buildings and neighbourhoods. Using advanced and novel communication protocols the information will be constantly exchanged through the ENERsip system, between energy grids, decision makers and users, helping consumers save energy using intuitive interfaces while maintaining the desired comfort levels. ENERsip is targeted to allow the emergence of an open electricity market by using components from different suppliers, unifying their protocols and providing reliable data exchange services, thus helping reinforce European industrial and technological position in ICT-enabled energy efficiency technologies. Besides, the development of an overall control architecture and the focus on open service oriented platform, implementation with SOA and Web Service technology provide a novel mechanism for energy efficiency in buildings towards end user demand, new local energy business models and utility company services.