This project continues the Iberdrola 2015 project, increasing the study to the A,B and D building of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT), and the electric vehicle. This project seeks to analyze the electric consumtion curve smoothing of different buildings (and consumption profiles), according to Demand-Side Management techniques in Smart Grids. The effect of three main factors of the three buildings to improve the aggregated consumtion will be analyzed: Demand-Side Management, Photovoltaic Self-Consumption and Electric Vehicle.

Complete Title Smart Grids for the electric network efficiency: implementation at ETSIT-UPM. Convocatoria de Ayudas a la Investigación en Energía y Medio Ambiente 2016. Fundación Iberdrola de España. (2016-2017)

Related research lines:

• SwarmGrid
• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering

The main objective is to develop local energy management techniques with global information that allows smoothing the national aggregate consumption profile with the lowest flow of information possible. To meet this objective, the project is based on swarm intelligence principles. These systems consist of simple agents interacting with each other and with the environment. Thus, although there is no centralized control structure, local interactions lead to complex global emergent behaviors. These techniques have proven special relevance in large-scale complex systems, similar to those found in smart grids, such as traffic control information in data networks or the layout of roads in logistics networks. Each generator and consumer of the grid is a unit that is part of a whole, located in a restricted environment and responsible for contributing actively to the right functioning of the global system. The system will rest on three fundamental pillars of smart grids: distributed generation, electric storage (centered on the penetration of the electric vehicles and local small-scale systems) and demand-side management (changes in consumption, with special interest to the air conditioning system).

Complete Title Distributed Energy Management System for Smart Grids. PROYECTOS DE I+D+I, DEL PROGRAMA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN, DESARROLLO E INNOVACIÓN ORIENTADA A LOS RETOS DE LA SOCIEDAD. (2016-2018). (TEC2015-66126-R)

Related research lines:

• SwarmGrid
• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering

This project seeks to analyze the electric consumtion curve smoothing of different buildings (and consumption profiles), according to Demand-Side Management techniques in Smart Grids. Concretelly, the three buildings are: The Magicbox prototype with a residential profile, the Solar Energy Institute (IES) with a research center profile and the Building C of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) with an offices profile. The effect of three main factors of the three buildings to improve the aggregated consumtion will be analyzed: Demand-Side Management, Photovoltaic Self-Consumption and Electric Vehicle.

Complete Title Smart Grids for the electric network efficiency: practical case at ETSIT-UPM. Convocatoria de Ayudas a la Investigación en Energía y Medio Ambiente 2015. Fundación Iberdrola de España. (2015-2016)

Related research lines:

• SwarmGrid
• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering

The main objective is the study of improved high concentration photovoltaic systems, through R & D, innovation and technology transfer, with the ultimate goal to achieve more reliable operational plants with a lower cost, and to give more confidence to the market.

Complete Title SIGMAPLANTAS: La innovación en las plantas y modelos de sistemas de Concentración Fotovoltaica en España. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, programa INNPACTO (CIN/699/2011) IPT-2011-1468-920000.

Related research lines:

• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering

The main objective of the VE2 project is the development of a software platform to manage the interaction of electric vehicles parked and connected to the electric network of a building and the electric consumption of the whole building. The project pretends to obtain a cost reduction on the energy demanded by the building to the Grid.

Complete title Sistema Inteligente de Gestión Energética del Edificio utilizando Vehículos Eléctricos. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, programa INNPACTO (CIN/952/2011) IPT-2012-1072-120000.

Líneas de investigación relacionadas:

• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering
• SwarmGrid

Solar Decathlon has been open only to universities and institutions of higher education worldwide. This international dimension makes it possible to compare, assess and analyze how each participating team imagines, designs, adapts and builds an energy-independent housing unit for the solar energy available in their countries. In this edition, Robolabo is in charge of designing and implementing the hardware and firmware of the competition monitoring system.

Complete Title: Solar Decathlon 2014 - Monitoring.

Related research lines:

• Monitoring & Smart Metering

Solar Decathlon Europe 12 is an international competition created through an agreement signed between the Ministry of Housing of the Government of Spain and the United States Government, co-organized by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in which universities from all over the world meet to design, build and operate an energetically self-sufficient house, grid-connected, using solar energy as the only energy source and equipped with all of the technologies that permit maximum energy efficiency.

Robolabo took over the task of designing, implementing and installing the monitoring system in charge of logging these variables, process them and show them in the monitoring web of the competition.

Complete Title: Solar Decathlon 2012 - Monitoring.

Related research lines:

• Monitoring & Smart Metering

The target of the N4C project is the deployment and testing of ubiquitous and pervasive networking for communications challenged areas in a manner consistent with an overall vision for a future Internet that can encompass not just users and applications in well connected regions, but that can also reach out to rural areas. Whithin this target, the main objective of Robolabo is to develop a heterogeneous wireless identification network powered by kinetic energy, which allows the localization of animals in open environments.

Complete title Communications for Challenged Areas: Architecture, Test-Beds and Innovative Alliances. European reasearch project supported by the European Commission. (2008-2011). (ICT-2007-2-223994)

Related research lines:

• Mobile Sensor Networks
• Swarm Robotics

The GEDELOS-PV system is an example of the added value of PV hybrid that combines photovoltaic electricity generation technology with Active Demand-Side Management strategies. Its main objective is to supply the electrical needs of the user by optimizing the use of local generation, which combine two main strategies: i) change the consumption pattern to integrate as far as possible with the pattern of local generation and ii) manage the storage system to store surplus generation and subsequent use in times of low or no generation.

Complete Title Gestión de la Demanda Eléctrica Doméstica con Tecnología Solar Fotovoltaica. Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica. (2007-2010). (ENE-2007-66135/ALT).

Related research lines:

• Electric Demand-Side Management
• Monitoring & Smart Metering

The main objective of the project is to estimate the environmental impact of construction and operation of Magicbox, the solar house built by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for the Solar Decathlon 2005 competition, sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) of the United States of America. Specifically, Robolabo was in charge of designing controllers for the passive HVAC system based on shift-phase gels.

Complete Title: HELIODOMO: Nuevo Concepto de Vivienda Autosuficiente. Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica. (2004-2007). (BIA-2004-05234)

Related research lines:

• Monitoring & Smart Metering

Magicbox was the first bioclimatic and self-sufficient solar house from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid participating in the Solar Decathlon 2005, in Washinton DC, United States. Robolabo was in charge of designing the electric and control system of the house. Within the project different RS-485 control boards were designed, where ambient variables were obtained, to mantain the house in the predefined comfort conditions.

Complete Title: Solar Decathlon 2005

Related research lines:

• Monitoring & Smart Metering
• Electric Demand-Side Management