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The role of smart meters in enabling real-time energy services for households : the Italian case

Pitì, Alessandro ; Verticale, Giacomo ; Rottondi, Cristina ; Capone, Antonio ; Lo Schiavo, Luca

In: Energies, 2017, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 199

The Smart Meter (SM) is an essential tool for successful balancing the demand-offer energy curve. It allows the linking of the consumption and production measurements with the time information and the customer’s identity, enabling the substitution of flat-price billing with smarter solutions, such as Time-of-Use or Real-Time Pricing. In addition to sending data to the energy operators for...

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Energy optimization and management of demand response interactions in a smart campus

Barbato, Antimo ; Bolchini, Cristiana ; Geronazzo, Angela ; Quintarelli, Elisa ; Palamarciuc, Andrei ; Pitì, Alessandro ; Rottondi, Cristina ; Verticale, Giacomo

In: Energies, 2016, vol. 9, no. 6, p. 398

The proposed framework enables innovative power management in smart campuses, integrating local renewable energy sources, battery banks and controllable loads and supporting Demand Response interactions with the electricity grid operators. The paper describes each system component: the Energy Management System responsible for power usage scheduling, the telecommunication infrastructure in ...

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Survey on the design of gamified systems for energy and water sustainability

Albertarelli, Spartaco ; Fraternali, Piero ; Herrera, Sergio ; Melenhorst, Mark ; Novak, Jasminko ; Pasini, Chiara ; Rizzoli, Andrea-Emilio ; Rottondi, Cristina

In: Games, 2018, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 38

In a world affected by the constant growth and concentration of the population in urban areas, the problem of preserving natural resources has become a priority. A promising approach to resource conservation is demand management, i.e., the ability to positively influence the behaviour of the population towards more sustainable consumption. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools...