ICT enablers for smart energy (invited paper)

Abstract

Almost all innovative applications in usage areas like energy, transport & logistics, healthcare rely on specific Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). These often need to fulfill very stringent requirements which cannot easily be fulfilled by today's technologies. Developing usage area specific ICT solutions is not the solution since this prohibits benefiting from an economy of scale. Initiated by the European Commission (EC) the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) has been setup to systematically identify ICT requirements from different usage areas and address as many of them as possible by so-called generic Future Internet / ICT enablers. Obviously, Smart Energy is a very important usage area which is addressed by the FI-PPP project FINSENY. This article will provide a detailed description of the project setup and its methodology. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.