Projet TESTBED (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Smart grid represents a significant new technology of improving the efficiency, reliability, and economics of the production, transmission, and distribution of electricity. It is crucial to exchange and use information for performing smart grid applications. However, in reality the exchange of information over multiple networks is unreliable, leading to unpredictable network Quality-of-Service and thus unreliable smart grid applications. What’s worse, there are massive data, including metering data and measurement data, structured or unstructured, making it challenging to exploit useful information. Hence, there is an urgent need to solve the research problem: how to coordinate multiple networks to reliably transmit data, and then manage ICT system resources to efficiently extract useful information for supporting smart grid applications? TESTBED is a major interdisciplinary project that combines wisdoms in three academic disciplines - Electronics Engineering, Power Engineering and Computing Sciences, to address the aforesaid problem. The main focus is on improving the communication layer interoperability and the efficiency of data analytic. Regarding the communication layer interoperability, this project intends to develop and evaluate function-driven communication frameworks. Moreover, this project will develop and verify new data integration and analytic techniques for enhancing power grid operations. These developed frameworks and methods will be extensively tested and evaluated in 4 well-equipped Laboratories at HWU, EPRI, ICCS, and CAS. They will not only support the SGAM Framework, but also complement and enhance International Standards. Overall, the main objective of this project is to coordinate the action of 5 Universities and 3 enterprises, working in the field of ICT and smart grid from both EU and China, to build and test sophisticated ICT, thereby facilitating the successful implementation of smart grid applications.

Mots clés : smart grid, demand response, virtual power plant

Participants :
- Sun Yat-sen University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- China electric power research institute (seal) soe (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Heriot-Watt University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 144000.0 €
- Dotx control solutions bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 27000.0 €
- Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (Greece) (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 81000.0 €
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 117000.0 €
- Durham University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202500.0 €
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Depsys sa (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 27000.0 €