Energy-efficient Smart Cities The ESC group looks at different aspects of digitalisation, which are becoming increasingly indispensable for the creation of energy-efficient districts and cities.
Reducing primary energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions is the central challenge for achieving the political climate targets. The current trend in medium-sized cities such as Oldenburg and rural areas towards increasing self-sufficient electricity supply through photovoltaic (PV) and small combined heat and power plants (CHP plants) is a first contribution to this. In order to fully exploit the potential of this trend, the electricity, heat and electric mobility sectors must be connected at neighbourhood level and the players involved must be connected to each other.
The Energie-efficient Smart Cities group looks at different aspects of digitalisation, which are becoming increasingly indispensable for the creation of energy-efficient districts and cities. These include:
- Secure and standardised data communications for recording transmission of predominantly energy-related measured values from consumers and generators
- Conception and development of federal data and service platforms for data processing and the implementation of diverse business models
- Implementation and testing of algorithms for intelligent load and procurement management for decentralized generators and consumers at the neighbourhood level
The group's flagship project is the 'Energetic Neighbourhood Quarter at Oldenburg Air Base' project, in which the practical implementation of an energy-optimised quarter within the scope of the real laboratory at Oldenburg Air Base is aimed at.
Persons 
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Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Brandt
E-Mail: tobias.brandt(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-707, Room: I6-O04
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Fernando Andres Penaherrera Vaca
E-Mail: fernandoandres.penaherreravaca(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-720, Room: I6-O09
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Dr. phil. Catharina Siemer
E-Mail: catharina.siemer(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-479, Room: I6-E07
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Publications
2020
A Generalized User Interface Concept to enable Restrospective System Analysis in Monitoring Systems
Viviane Herdel, Bertram Wortelen, Mathias Lanezki, Andreas Lüdtke; Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; 19-24 July / 2020
Development of a Decision-Making Framework for Distributed Energy Systems in a German District
Schmeling, L.; Schönfeldt, P.; Klement, P.; Wehkamp, S.; Hanke, B.; Agert, C.; Energies; January / 2020
District Energy Systems: Challenges and New Tools for Planning and Evaluation
Steffen Wehkamp and Lucas Schmeling and Lena Vorspel and Fabian Roelcke and Kai-Lukas Windmeier; Energies; June / 2020
Efficient Exploration of Long Data Series: A Data Event-driven HMI Concept
Bertram Wortelen, Viviane Herdel, Oliver Pfeiffer, Marie-Christin Harre, Marcel Saager, Mathias Lanezki; Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Extended Abstracts); 19-24 July / 2020
Impacts of life cycle inventory databases on life cycle assessments: A review by means of a drivetrain case study
Matthias Kalverkamp, Eckard Helmers, Alexandra Pehlken; Journal of Cleaner Production; 10 / 2020
Real-time Detection of Smart Meter Eventswith Odysseus
Brand, Michael and Brandt, Tobias and Grawunder, Marco; Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems; Juli / 2020
“Changing the Game—Neighbourhood”: An Energy Transition Board Game, Developed in a Co-Design Process: A Case Study
Mathias Lanezki, Catharina Siemer and Steffen Wehkamp; Sustainability ; 12 / 2020
2018
M2DC - A Novel Heterogeneous Hyperscale Microserver Platform
Ariel Oleksiak, Micha vor dem Berge, Mario Porrmann, Sven Rosinger, Daniel Schlitt, Christian Pieper, Udo Janssen, Holm Rauchfuss, Giovanni Agosta, Joao Pita Costa, Thierry Goubier, Chris Adeniyi-Jones et. al.; Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers; August / 2018
Proactive Workload Management for Bare Metal Deployment on Microservers
Daniel Schlitt and Christian Pieper and Wolfgang Nebel; Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,; 2018
2017
The M2DC Approach towards Resource-efficient Computing
Giovanni Agosta and Alessandro Barenghi and Tomasz Ciesielczyk and Rahul Dutta and William Fornaciari and Thierry Goubier and Jens Hagemeyer and Lars Kosmann and Nicholas Mainardi and Ariel Oleksiak and Gerardo Pelosi and Wojciech Piatek and Christian Pieper and Mario Porrmann and Daniel Schlitt and Michele Zanella; OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES for European Projects - Volume 1: EPS Portugal 2017/2018; 2017
