Smart Societies worldwide need to find effective solutions to the major trends that will change the world and our societies in the next twenty years. The Smart City represents an important part of Smart Societies; urbanisation is growing worldwide and Smart Cities will require smart technologies that support sustainable development including energy conservation and reduction.
The IMPReSS SDP brings innovations to the development of intelligent systems for supporting Smart Societies and Smart Cities. To demonstrate the innovative capacities of the IMPReSS SDP, the project will focus on energy management by enhancing conventional energy management systems by adding the following key features:
 • Development of a building management system that gives different priority to specific devices and rooms when the energy supply is limited (e.g. refrigerators for storing dangerous substances, fire alarms, sprinklers, and ventilation all have different certifications and priorities)
• Seamless and autonomous integration of distributed energy sources (e.g. renewable energy sources) into the considered scenario and exploiting specific systems to store the generated energy for use at a later time
• Development of micro-grid that interacts with the energy providers to receive real-time cost information, thus opportunistically balancing the consumption of energy from the provider and local storage systems
• Development of energy management extensions that take into account context information such as the users’ behaviour, habits, preferences, work activities, environmental conditions etc. The information could be used to educate the users to be more energy aware
• Minimal retrofitting through the adoption of wireless sensors (e.g. energy meters) and actuators (remotely controlled switches) which allow new device installations in preserved historical buildings.
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