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Disclosure and public availability of market related information is referred to as data transparency in electricity markets. There are still several open questions about the extent and quality of optimal market data transparency. Such concerns will be even more sever in emerging smart grids; although proper communication infrastructure facilitates data sharing and disclosure, market designers or microgrid...
Thanks to the availability of fine-grained electricity usage data, electricity customers can benefit from a variety of services from utility companies as well as third party service providers, for energy efficiency, cost saving and incentives, social gaming, and so forth. However, at the same time, advancement of data analytics techniques may jeopardize customers' private, sensitive information. For...
Vegetation encroachment and its monitoring near high voltage power line is a challenging problem for electricity distribution companies. Electric supply companies monitor the vegetation/trees near power lines to avoid the blackouts that may occur in case of an improper monitoring of vegetation. The uninterrupted electric power supply is vital for industries, businesses, and daily life. Many approaches...
Nowadays companies are rapidly moving towards transforming their business into digital businesses. Being digital often means exploiting emerging technologies to enable new ways of serving customers. This paper presents two digital tools that have been designed to drive innovation in maintenance operations. A remote assistance collaboration tool combining wearable technologies and augmented reality...
Cloud computing services are accessible from anywhere and used worldwide. There is plenty of information about concepts, architecture and models to deploy cloud systems. On the other hand, there is a lack of standardized information about utilization, contracts, and main performance metrics demanded by cloud services. Those data are usually private, non-structured and even customers commonly do not...
When a customer uses a service, he might change his initial requirement due to subjective reasons that could not be predicated by service providers. If this happened, service providers need to adjust the current service solution to adapt the new requirement with the objective of minimizing the change amplitude and cost. Placing this problem into AI-planning based service composition (PSC) scenario,...
Plant factories are cultivation facilities that enable year-round production of vegetables and other produce by allowing precise control and monitoring of cultivation conditions and plant growth. At Osaka Prefecture University, the Research and Development Center for the Plant Factory has been established as a cutting-edge R&D base specializing in the development of a plant growth facility operated...
Big Data is one of the most discussed trend themes worldwide in both research community and industrial practice. Thus, researchers as well as company representatives focus on the study of Big Data technologies and the potentials deriving from gaining and structuring data. In this paper, we firstly conduct a literature review. Then, we describe the approach to implement reaction management in manufacturing...
Around the world, a large scale implementation of smart meters is underway. The UK alone will install and configure over 50 million smart meters by the end of 2020. These smart devices enable consumer electricity usage monitoring with a high degree of accuracy. Each device records consumer data at regular intervals, which can be used to identify and profile half-hourly routines and habits. This enables...
Research institutes and companies are focusing intensively on Complex Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, Information Flow Processing and Surprise Event Detection methods and algorithms. This phenomenon is intensified by the rapid evolution and spreading in practice of the Internet of Things services. A huge amount of data is created continuously by the physical and logical sensors embedded...
Innovation on the base of technologies in the operation management function is key for the competitiveness of the SMEs. This paper analyzes the learnt lessons related to the implementation of an “Operation Management System” (OMS) in a group of eight Spanish SMEs and provides guides to make it more efficient. We applied Lean Manufacturing techniques in the pre-implementation phase. Then, we reflect...
Smart grid encompasses a variety of tools, techniques and technologies that will allow energy suppliers to more accurately measure electricity flows and remotely control each point of the transmission and distribution network using two way digital technology. In this paper, determine the optimal level of automation in distribution networks with local remote control switches and VIT switches automation...
If companies want to tackle increasing complexity, they often take use of modular system architectures which are seen as important enabler for sharing standardized modules across different development projects. Although numerous examples in systems business can be found where companies established modular architectures, they still face difficulties to reuse standardized architectural elements in a...
This article describes the design, comparison and evaluation of predictive models from the area of monitoring data on the basis of CRISP-DM and RadpidMiner technology, for the purpose of improving IT processes in the company. These models have been created on a sample of real data from the monitoring of IT systems in one of the largest companies in Slovakia. Article defines the detailed description...
The concept of proximity has been recently adopted in various fields of interest, with different meanings and implementations. In the Information Technology area, for example, proximity was used for analyzing user location and nearness to objects/people, and has already changed the way people interact with each other and with technology itself. In this field, the concept is becoming more important...
With the rising popularity of Web applications and cloud computing technology, a secure cloud computing environment is one of the main concerns. Currently, enterprise cloud platforms often rely on their maintenance and operation, and medium and small companies cannot effectively save manpower information security costs, and thus has affected the willingness of enterprises to use cloud services. In...
Environmental sustainability plays an important role for future mobility and thereby for car manufacturers and their suppliers. Regarding the increasing focus on renewable energy and on an efficient use of energy electromobility is seen as a solution for energy and environmental challenges. Many countries want to increase the share of electric cars and have set themselves ambitious targets. Car manufacturers...
Ward Cunningham in his experience report presented at the OOPSLA'92 conference introduced the metaphor of technical debt. This metaphor is related to immature, incomplete or inadequate artifacts in the software development cycle that cause higher costs and lower quality. A strategy for the technical debt management is still a challenge because its definition is not yet part of the software development...
Technology scanning is the activity of technology intelligence responsible for finding and evaluating (potentially disruptive) technologies and relevant technological trends from outside a company's core technological competences. In the technology age, disruptive changes happen more often, and affect more industry sectors than before. Companies struggle to allocate and organize their resources for...
Advanced globalization has led to information sharing among the overseas bases of companies. Technical information should be protected as they are the knowledge assets of companies. Therefore, companies establish general standards within enterprises, and it is necessary for all employees of an organization to act under their regulations and rules.
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