[Tccc] Post-Doc Position in Paris, France - Internet of Things principles applied to Smart Energy / Smart Grid systems

Catherine Rosenberg cath
Fri Feb 10 08:35:33 EST 2012


*_Post-Doc  Position in Paris, France_*

*_at the Laboratory of Information, Network and Communication Sciences 
(LINCS_*

**

*Subject: *Internet of Things principles applied to Smart Energy / Smart 
Grid systems

*Proposed by: *Prof. Daniel Kofman, Telecom ParisTech**

Prof. Catherine Rosenberg; University of Waterloo

*Description*

Home/building automation enables advanced energy control applications, 
both for residential users and enterprises. The benefits of these 
applications are even larger in the context of smart-grid systems at the 
neighborhood scale. Energy companies are analyzing the potential impact 
of these applications on their business as well as on the performances 
of their infrastructure control and management systems. They evaluate 
the pertinence of deploying an "energy box" at customers' premises (a 
device that will embed a smart meter and provide a broad set of advanced 
capabilities). The post-doc activities will contribute to an initiative 
launched with Electricite de France, one of the major energy companies 
worldwide.

  The targeted system will enable end users to define their policies for 
energy management. Self-organization principles will be applied to 
enforce the policies. These energy applications require the autonomous 
discovery of the various appliances available in home and building 
environments (sources, storages and consumers of energy; remark:  as an 
example a refrigerator capable of making ice during the low load hours 
to cool food during the high load hours is considered here as a storage 
capability), as well as other self-organization capabilities. The 
extension to smart-grid at neighborhood scale will be facilitated by a 
distributed control plane of the various clients' environments. Cloud 
computing principles will also be applied to facilitate the management 
of the large amount of data that will be processed and one the key 
questions will be how to distribute the system intelligence among the 
various components, from cloud to things through the energy box.

A PhD. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical 
Engineering, is required. A prior knowledge of energy systems, Internet 
of things principles, and/or data analysis would be an asset. Strong 
communications skills in English are also required.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, a resume, and the names of two 
references to both Profs. Kofman and Rosenberg via email. Please note 
that the topic line should start with Smartgrid-IoT POSTDOC.

This position is for a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 18 months.






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