IEEE SmartGridComm Student Video Competition - Prize $500

We invite students from around the globe to create a short video (duration of max. 3 minutes), presenting their vision or ideas on smart grid technologies, practices and systems. This year we focus on Smart Grid 3.0, the user centric smart grid. We welcome short videos which present original visions and ideas in one of the following categories:

1. Collaborative Prosumers. Imagine new solutions, business models and applications for collaborative prosumers, the users that produce and consume energy! What solutions can you think for users with rooftop solar panels, local storage from their electric vehicles or battery banks that are all connected in a microgrid or a virtual power plant?
2. Smart Grid Applications. Imagine a new marketplace of web and mobile applications for the smart grid. This include energy analytics, automation algorithms and demand response, renewable energy forecast, electric vehicles, etc. You can view smart grid as an application development platform.
3. Electric Vehicles. What is the role of the electric vehicle in new smart grid entities such as microgrids, virtual power plants? How do you imagine vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and/or vehicle to grid (V2G) applications?

​Think, imagine, wonder!

• Think about the smart grid and how it has already been applied
• Imagine new ideas that will enrich service offerings to utility customers and will engage them
• Wonder of new techniques that will enhance the participatory role of end users in the network 

​Turn your ideas into a video

Create a video of max. 3 minutes long, explaining your views about the smart grid and focus on your personal innovative solution and idea. Be clear, sharp and inspiring! imagine a better world that smarter and cleaner power grids could offer. 

Submission Instructions

1. Create the video
2. Upload your video to YouTube
3. Send to studentscomp14@comsoc.org the following information:

• ​Your name
• University affiliation
• Contact information (mailing address and email)
• Video title
• Video link

Selection Process

1. Approval of video. Videos will be screened by a jury for compliance with the scope of the competition as outlined above.  
2. Approved videos. The approved videos will be posted on the IEEE SmartGridComm website, where visitors will be able to vote.  
3. Top 3 videos. The top 3 voted videos will be selected.  
4. Winning video. The winning video will be decided by the jury, out of the 3 top voted videos. It will be announced on the IEEE website on the date specified and will receive the $500 prize!

Note that only student are eligible to participate. 

Important Dates

• Video submission deadline: 1 September 2014 10 September 2014
• Online voting period: 10 September - 17 October 2014
• Annoucement of top 3 videos: 31 October 2014
• Annoucement of Top Winner: 5 November 2014 

​Video Competition Committee

Dr. George Koutitas, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
Prof. Stan McClellan, Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, USA

Link to Previous Video Competitions

You can see the Video Contests Nominations of previous years at the following links:

• IEEE SmartGridComm 2013 Student Video Competition
• IEEE SmartGridComm 2012 Student Video Competition

e-Energy 2012: where energy, computing and communication meet

Call for Papers

Third International Conference on Future Energy Systems

May 9-11, 2012 -- Madrid, Spain

http://e-energy2012.networks.imdea.org/

e-Energy is the conference on future energy systems, where energy, computing and communication meet. The first e-Energy conference was held in April 2010, in Passau (Germany), and the second took place in May/June 2011 at Columbia University, in New York City (USA).

e-Energy 2012 invites submission of two categories of paper: full papers and discussion papers. Full papers should be no longer than 10 pages and discussion papers should be no longer than 4 pages. All papers must present original theoretical and/or experimental research that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions must be in PDF-format using the double-column ACM format given at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Further submission information can be accessed via http://events.networks.imdea.org/content/e-energy-2012/paper-submission Proceedings will be published by ACM and appear in the ACM library and IEEE Xplore (subject to agreement by ACM and the IEEE).

Full papers should include a detailed description of research either in progress or completed. A discussion paper describes innovative and novel ideas that have not yet been fully explored, but have the potential to influence the research community. A discussion paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new approach, re-frame or debunk existing work, report unexpected results from a deployment, or propose new evaluation methodologies. We especially encourage submissions of early-stage work and enticing but unproven ideas.

Papers are to be submitted via EDAS: http://edas.info/N11357

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Energy-efficient networking and protocols:
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-energy-efficient network architectures
-high-capacity optical transport
-access networks (wired and wireless)
-energy-efficient network components (switches, routers, transceivers, amplifiers, etc.)
-peer-to-peer networking and overlays
-energy, performance, quality of experience trade offs
-sensing techniques and sensor networks for energy efficiency
-energy-efficient data transmission
-security challenges in energy-efficient networking
-instrumentation and measurement of energy-efficient networking

Energy-efficient computing:
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-cloud computing and virtualization
-energy-efficient data centers
-energy-efficient application design
-energy-efficient terminal design
-security challenges in energy-efficient computing
-energy and performance trade offs
-design methodologies and tools for energy-efficient services
-instrumentation and measurement of energy-efficient computing

ICT for energy efficiency:
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-energy-demand reduction techniques
-demand management in industrial applications
-demand management in domestic applications
-energy monitoring and management
-smart metering and dynamic pricing
-energy-efficient transport and logistics
-energy-efficient buildings

Smart Grids:
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-network architecture for future power networks
-networking and computing issues in smart grids
-reliability and power management
-service design and management
-electric vehicles and smart grids
-virtual power plants, distributed generation, microgrids, renewables and storage
-field trials

Important Dates
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Full paper due: January 10, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2012
Final version due: April 13, 2012

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Smart Grid Communications Series

The IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) has inaugurated a new series on communications for Smart Grid. “Smart Grid” refers to the modernization of the electric grid to enable more efficient generation, transmission, distribution, and usage of energy, resulting in sustainable energy production and consumption with reduced adverse effects on the environment and increased power reliability. While advances in renewable energy and network control are needed, advances in communication technologies, data fusion and mining, and scheduling and optimization are also crucial for realizing this vision. It is anticipated that many of the same communications technologies that have revolutionized our way of life in the past few decades will have direct applicability to Smart Grid, for example, the use of wireless communications in a single distribution network to collect and exchange information about quality, consumption, and pricing of electricity. While many off-the-shelf communications technologies can be deployed today in the Smart Grid, their use may lead to numerous inefficiencies, especially if energymanagement-specific features are not included in data compression and the data collection infrastructure. Moreover, allowing multiple distribution networks to operate side-by-side, interface to customer equipment, and share information in a secure and reliable fashion poses a number of difficult communications challenges that remain unanswered in the context of Smart Grid.

This series focuses on identifying the numerous communication challenges posed by the Smart Grid and exploring research avenues for addressing them. Original contributions that are unpublished and not currently under review by any other journal are solicited in relevant areas of Smart Grid communications including but not limited to the following:

• Physical and MAC layer protocols for Smart Grid applications
• Spectrum sharing, coexistence and interference mitigation in Smart Grid communications
• Network control for the power grid
• Smart Grid sensor data fusion and mining models
• Communications to support demand-response, load, and pricing management
• Smart Grid cyber-physical network modeling and performance analysis
• Measurement data from Smart Grid testbeds and field trials
• Architecture and network topology for Smart Grid applications
• Cyber and physical vulnerabilities and Smart Grid security

Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the ‘Information for Authors’ section of the JSAC guidelines (http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three experts and evaluated by an editorial board dedicated to the area of communications for Smart Grid. All manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format via email to Dr. Nada Golmie, nada.golmie@nist.gov. While manuscripts can be submitted at any time, they should be submitted according to the following timetable to be considered for the inaugural July 2012 issue:

Manuscript submission: September 15, 2011
First reviews complete: December 15, 2011
Second reviews complete/all acceptance letters sent: March 1, 2012
Materials to publisher: April 1, 2012
Publication: July 2012

Series Editorial Board
Dr. Nada Golmie, Editor-in-Chief, JSAC Smart Grid Communications Series, NIST
Prof. Anna Scaglione, University of California Davis
Prof. Lutz Lamp, University of British Columbia
Prof. Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan