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Colloquium rennais des sciences du numérique

3ème édition du colloquium - 4 juillet 2013

Résultat de la volonté des établissements de recherche réunis au sein du Comité de Site Math-STIC de Rennes, le Colloquium a pour but de réunir périodiquement l'ensemble des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants de la place rennaise qui s'intéressent aux sciences du numérique. Depuis le 17 avril 2013, et environ tous les deux mois, un nouveau cycle de belles conférences scientifiques se tient dans l'amphithéâtre du centre Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique.

logoCominLabs3juin2013 Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo) ; Hervé Guéguen (IETR) ; Patrick Maillé & Bruno Tuffin (Télécom Bretagne & Inria)

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Catherine Rosenberg, Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Waterloo - Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet, A Computer Engineering Approach to the Smart Grid - (durée: 1h 20 mn)

 

Note: les deux premières minutes de l'exposé sont en français ; le reste de la présentation s'est déroulé en anglais

Abstract :

Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. This next-generation grid, often called the `smart grid,’ will incorporate novel elements such as storage, electric vehicles, and distributed generation, with these elements interconnected by a pervasive communication infrastructure.

The smart grid promises to improve the reliability and efficiency of the grid and simultaneously reduce its carbon footprint, making it `greener.’ However, many essential aspects of the smart grid exist only on paper– the introduction of the smart grid raises nearly as many problems as it solves. Our research hypothesis is that the concepts and techniques pioneered by the Internet, the fruit of four decades of research in this area, are directly applicable to the solution of some of these problems.

This is because both the Internet and the electrical grid are designed to meet fundamental needs, for information and for energy, respectively, by connecting geographically dispersed suppliers with geographically dispersed consumers. I will discuss this hypothesis in some detail, then present selected projects from the research agenda of the ISS4E (Information Systems and Science for Energy) lab at the University of Waterloo that further explore its consequences. (joint work with S. Keshav, University of Waterloo)