Electric Vehicle Fleet Integration in the Danish EDISON Project:A Virtual Power Plant on the Island of Bornholm

The Danish EDISON project has been launched to investigate how a large fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) can be integrated in a way that supports the electric grid while benefitting both the individual car owners and society as a whole through reductions in CO 2 emissions. The consortium partners include energy companies, technology suppliers and research laboratories and institutes. The aim is to perform a thorough investigation of the challenges and opportunities of EVs and then to deliver a technical platform that can be demonstrated on the Danish island of Bornholm. To reach this goal, a vast amount of research is done in various areas of EV technology by the partners. This paper will focus on the ICT-based distributed software integration, which plays a major role for the success of EDISON. Key solution technologies and standards that will accommodate communication and optimize the coordination of EVs will be described as well as the simulation work that will help to reach the goals of the project

The VOX audio server

In the recent past,user interfaces have vastly improved due to the widespread availability of high-resolution graphics displays. It is now a new challenge to incorporate other media into the user interface. We strongly believe that voice and audio will be a key component of next-generation interfaces. Towards this end, we are developing an audio server that supports the integration of voice and audio features into the user interface. Application areas in which we are particularly interested include telephone management, voice annotation, real-time teleconferencing, conversational answering machines, and, more generally, computer-based tools to support collaborative work. The intent of the VOX Audio Server is to accomplish for audio what current state-of-the-art window servers (such as in the X Window System) have done for graphics. VOX provides integrated access to and control of audio, voice, and telephony capabilities. It provides for the dynamic configuration of audio devices and their sharing between multiple client applications. We also believe that the server architecture can be extended to support other media, particularly video

FlexLast: An IT-Centric Solution for Balancing the Electric Power Grid

Abstract—How can energy from renewable sources be integrated in large quantities into the power supply without overwhelming the grid? A collaboration between BKW, the electric utility in the Canton of Bern, IBM, Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer and supermarket chain, and Swissgrid, the national grid operator is creating a unique solution that applies advanced algorithms to data on the state of the grid and large freezer warehouses to optimize and manage the consumption of power for cooling to help balance the grid. In this paper we describe the architecture of the system and examine the business case required to make this approach feasible. Keywords—smart grid; demand response; balancing power; energy data analytics; ICT for grid management; I