PFI:AIR - TT: Microgrid Energy Manager (MEM) using wireless networks and cloud computing

这个PFI：空气技术转换项目，微电网能源管理器(MEM)，专注于使用无线计算转换电力控制技术，以满足微电网中经济高效地匹配电力供需的需求。MEM很重要，因为它将使微电网得到广泛采用，而微电网又能使分布式可再生能源得到广泛采用。这将带来环境效益，并降低消费者和企业的能源成本。AIR-TT项目将产生经过实地测试的MEM，供能源服务和集成公司商业使用。MEM具有以下独特特征：(A)无线操作；(B)智能用户界面；(C)低功耗；(D)物联网；(E)云计算。总而言之，这些功能将使能源用户不必频繁地协商微电网的细微差别，并将提供一种消费者体验，其中智能手机和/或网络界面的智能控制将有助于实现降低能源成本和提高终端用户舒适性。该项目解决了以下关键技术差距，同时将研究成果转化为商业应用。差距在于缺乏面向设计的模型来预测电力网络、无线网络、嵌入式计算设备和云系统在一起部署时的系统级交互。该项目通过以下方式帮助解决这一关键技术差距：(A)建立最终的试验台；(B)现场部署试验台以获得性能数据；以及(C)经验性地识别和改进面向设计的模型。此外，参与该项目的人员，包括工程和商学院的本科生和研究生，将通过以下方式获得创业和技术翻译领域的课程工作和基于项目的学习：(A)跨学科专题课程(B)威斯康星州创业训练营(C)商业计划竞赛，如威斯康星州能源和可持续发展挑战赛，以及(D)各种实地演示。该项目与麦迪逊市和塞文斯波市(前威斯康星州能源中心)合作，提供测试环境，指导商业化方面，并在咨询方面提供合作伙伴关系，以开发现场部署，以便将这一研究发现转化为商业现实。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project, Microgrid Energy Manager (MEM), focuses on translating the technology of electrical power control using wireless computing to fill the need for cost effectively matching supply and demand of electricity in microgrids. The MEM is important because it will enable the widespread adoption of microgrids, which in-turn enables the widespread adoption of distributed renewable energy resources. This leads to environmental benefits and reduced energy costs to consumers and businesses. The AIR-TT project will result in a field-tested MEM that will be ready for commercial adoption by energy service and integration companies. MEM has the following unique features: (a) wireless operation; (b) smart user-interfaces; (c) low power consumption; (d) internet of things; and (e) cloud computing. Together, these features will remove the hassle for the energy users from having to frequently negotiate the nuances of microgrids, and will provide a consumer experience wherein intelligent control with smart phone and/or web interfaces become useful for realizing reduced energy costs and improving end-use comfort simultaneously.This project addresses the following key technology gap while translating the research discovery into commercial applications. The gap is a lack of design-oriented models that predict system-level interactions among power networks, wireless networks, embedded computing devices and cloud systems when they are deployed together. This project helps address this key technology gap by (a) building a definitive test-bed; (b) field-deploying the test beds to obtain performance data and (c) empirically identifying and refining design-oriented models. In addition, personnel involved in this project, including undergraduate and graduate students from engineering and business schools, will receive course-work and project-based learning in the areas of entrepreneurship and technology translation through (a) interdisciplinary special topics courses (b) the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (c) the business plan competitions such as the Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge, and (d) various fieldwork demonstrations.The project engages the City of Madison and Seventhwave (formerly the Energy Center of Wisconsin), to provide a test environment, guide commercialization aspects, and provide partnership in consulting to develop field deployment so as to translate this research discovery into a commercial reality.