Smart Meter Gateways: Options for a BSI-compliant integration of energy management systems

The introduction of Smart Meter Gateways (SMGWs) to buildings and households creates new opportunities and challenges for energy management systems. While SMGWs provide interfaces for accessing recorded information and enable communication to external parties, they also restrict data access to protect the privacy of inhabitants and facility owners. This paper presents an analysis of options for integrating automated (Building) Energy Management Systems (EMSs) into the smart meter architecture based on the technical guidelines for SMGWs by the German Federal Office for Information Security (“Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik”, BSI). It shows that there are multiple ways for integrating automated EMSs into the German smart metering architecture, although each option comes with its own advantages and restrictions. By providing a detailed discussion of trade-offs, this paper supports EMS designers that will be confronted with differing freedoms and limitations depending on the integration option

Monitoring wód zasolonych przy użyciu metody tomografii elektrooporowej długich elektrod

Since 2011 the German well logging company Bohrlochmessung – Storkow GmbH and the German Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics are engaged in the joint research project ‘SAMOLEG – Saltwater monitoring with long electrode geoelectrics’ (electrical resistivity tomography – ERT), with a grant of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The basic concept of SAMOLEG is to use the existing networks of old steel-cased groundwater measuring wells as current injection and voltage electrodes for electrical resistivity tomography measurements in order to obtain deeper access to salt water bearing aquifers than with conventional surface ERT. Permanent wiring of several old wells would give the opportunity to conduct cost-efficient ERT measurements for saltwater monitoring with a high temporal sampling on sites that are threatened by saltwater rise due to anthropogenic (e.g. natural gas /CO2-storage, water production from wells) or natural causes (e.g. decreasing precipitation due to climate change). First model tank and numerical modelling experiments reveal different sensitivities of ‘equal-length’ and ‘unequal-length’ combinations of wells to rising or laterally inflowing saltwater. Field measurements on a test site in Eastern Brandenburg with known groundwater salinization demonstrate the monitoring potential of the SAMOLEG concept.Od 2011 roku niemieckie przedsiębiorstwo geofizyki otworowej Blm–storkowgmbh wspólnie z Instytutem Leibniza ds. Geofizyki Stosowanej są zaangażowane w projekt badawczy pt. „SAMOLEG – Monitorowanie zasolenia wód podziemnych za pomocą elektrooporowej metody długich elektrod” (tomografia elektrooporowa) – grant Niemieckiego Federalnego Ministerstwa Edukacjii Badań Naukowych. Zasadniczą ideą projektu SAMOLEG jest wykorzystanie istniejącej sieci starych stalowych studni i piezometrów jako elektrod prądowych i pomiarowych w technice tomografii elektrooporowej, w celu dostępu do głębszych zasolonych poziomów wodonośnych, niż mogłoby to mieć miejsce, bazując na konwencjonalnych powierzchniowych metodach elektrooporowych. Trwałe okablowanie kilku studni w wybranej sieci badawczej dałoby możliwość przeprowadzania częstego niskonakładowego monitoringu zasolenia wód w miejscach, które z przyczyn antropogenicznych (np. Magazynowanie gazu lub CO2, zintensyfikowane ujmowanie wód podziemnych) oraz naturalnych (np. Niewielkie opady atmosferycznewywołane zmianami klimatycznymi) zagrożone są podniesieniem się poziomu wód zasolonych. Pierwsze badania laboratoryjne oraz modelowanie numeryczne ujawniły zmienne czułości kombinacji elektrod o równej i różnej długości względem wznosu lub bocznego dopływu wód, natomiast pomiary terenowe we wschodniej Brandenburgii, na polu testowym o znanym zasoleniu wód podziemnych, potwierdziły zakładany potencjał monitoringowy koncepcji SAMOLEG

Geophysical site investigation at Dalby-Önneslov using joint inversion

A geophysical site investigation using ERT and refraction seismic was done to detect the bedrock interface and possible weakness zones. For the purpose of a more realistic subsurface model a joint inversion was done

Saltwater intrusion under climate change in North-Western Germany - mapping, modelling and management approaches in the projects TOPSOIL and go-CAM

Climate change will result in rising sea level and, at least for the North Sea region, in rising groundwater table. This leads to a new balance at the fresh–saline groundwater boundary and a new distribution of saltwater intrusions with strong regional differentiations. These effects are investigated in several research projects funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Objectives and some results from the projects TOPSOIL and go-CAM are presented in this poster

Electrical Resistivity Imaging and the Saline Water Interface in High-Quality Coastal Aquifers

© 2018 The Author(s) Population growth and changing climate continue to impact on the availability of natural resources. Urbanization of vulnerable coastal margins can place serious demands on shallow groundwater. Here, groundwater management requires definition of coastal hydrogeology, particularly the seawater interface. Electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) appears to be ideally suited for this purpose. We investigate challenges and drivers for successful electrical resistivity imaging with field and synthetic experiments. Two decades of seawater intrusion monitoring provide a basis for creating a geo-electrical model suitable for demonstrating the significance of acquisition and inversion parameters on resistivity imaging outcomes. A key observation is that resistivity imaging with combinations of electrode arrays that include dipole–dipole quadrupoles can be configured to illuminate consequential elements of coastal hydrogeology. We extend our analysis of ERI to include a diverse set of hydrogeological settings along more than 100 km of the coastal margin passing the city of Perth, Western Australia. Of particular importance are settings with: (1) a classic seawater wedge in an unconfined aquifer, (2) a shallow unconfined aquifer over an impermeable substrate, and (3) a shallow multi-tiered aquifer system over a conductive impermeable substrate. We also demonstrate a systematic increase in the landward extent of the seawater wedge at sites located progressively closer to the highly urbanized center of Perth. Based on field and synthetic ERI experiments from a broad range of hydrogeological settings, we tabulate current challenges and future directions for this technology. Our research contributes to resolving the globally significant challenge of managing seawater intrusion at vulnerable coastal margins