First step in ISEMIC development was detailed introduction with EMIS and its possibilities. EEPIC – UNDP Croatia, as EMIS creator played the key role in distribution of EMIS documents to all project partners and they were available for possible questions and resolving ambiguities. All disadvantages of EMIS application and possibilities for their elimination and improvement to ISEMIC were perceived after deep EMIS scanning.

After understanding EMIS system, the functional specification of ISEMIC was drafted by FER-ZVNE and EEPIC – UNDP Croatia.

The kickoff workshop was held on 27^th and 28^th of January at premises of the University of Zagreb, FER-ZVNE, Croatia. During the workshop detailed project structure was elaborated by participating project partners as well as functional specification. All project partners agreed on the timetable of all future activities on the project.

The functional specification was finalized by FER-ZVNE and EEPIC – UNDP Croatia, following remaining project partners' inputs which were consulted for feedback via e-mail and at the kickoff workshop.

After finishing functional specification, development of technical specification of the ISEMIC was initiated. The main actions needed for composing technical specification were: detailed elaboration of data analysis in ISEMIC (regression analysis, least square method, scatter trending and advanced pattern recognition), report creation within ISEMIC, defining smart metering equipment and smart metering infrastructure that ISEMIC will be able to work with and which will be later used for pilot projects. Technical specification was written by FER-ZVNE following remaining project partners' inputs.

New workshop, called workshop 1 in project proposal, was held on 15^th of April at premises of the University of Novi Sad, FTS, Serbia. Matija Vajdić from EEPIC – UNDP Croatia held the basic training where he demonstrated all the tabs, options and possibilities of EMIS software and after that all project participants were ready to use EMIS software independently. Additional added value from the first workshop was analysis, discussion and finally definition of the energy cost centers (ECC) where additional measuring equipment should be installed in each participating partner institution.

After the workshop in Novi Sad and finishing technical specification, software development was initiated. Main role for that task had EEPIC – UNDP Croatia and their programmers. Features outlined in the technical specification were implemented into ISEMIC. Alpha version of ISEMIC was finished after ending of software development process. In the acceptance period, which lasted month and a half, a lot of bugs and errors in ISEMIC application have been fixed. There have been also some logical changes in data entry, analysis and reporting modules. Updates and patches were made daily until the finalized ISEMIC application was handed out for use on the project.

ISEMIC web application for project needs is installed on a server located at the FER-ZVNE enabling preparation of pilot projects of all project partners. It can be accessed by following the link: http://161.53.66.25:8080/IsemicIntro/ and homepage of the application is opened by click on the project logo.

All selected objects for pilot run of all project partners are defined and managed within ISEMIC application. They are described with various known characteristics (general data of the object, energy data of the object, constructional data of the object, etc.). For each object and measurement sight monthly bills of electrical, heat energy and water consumption are entered. Subsequently, the purchase of smart metering equipment and establishment of smart metering infrastructure was initiated. Once all prerequisites were satisfied the system pilot run including data collection from bills, smart meters and traditional measurements, their storage and analysis was executed. The purchase of smart metering equipment was prolonged mostly due to complicated conditions and regulations of procurement, leading to longer equipment purchase than it was originally estimated at the beginning of the project. During this period second workshop was held on 15^th and 16^th of May, at premises of the University of Sarajevo, MEF, B&H. At the 2^nd workshop all project participants were introduced in detail with the status of the project, as well as with obstacles and challenges with the equipment purchase and some good advices were interchanged related to that topic. In order to successfully finish the project on time, the activities on other work packages were initiated in parallel with the equipment purchase. Therefore, the partners began with the development of the user documentation. Draft version of user documentation was developed by EEPIC – UNDP Croatia and FER-ZVNE and then distributed to all project partners participants to gather their feedbacks. The user documentation was completed after incorporating partner feedbacks. The process of user documentation development lasted for nearly six months, as it was predicted in the project proposal. With the end of the user documentation development first equipment was delivered and installed at the predefined locations. After equipment purchase and installation each project partner developed a simple program which collects real-time data from measurement equipment and saves it in .csv files in appropriate form for ISEMIC application input. A special application was developed to enable the connection establishment and automatic remittance of .csv files containing measure data from client servers (located at project partner sites) to central server located at FER-ZVNE (project coordinator site). The application is developed in Java programming language by project coordinator and uses FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for sending files from clients to server. The FTP client application could be tested only after the process of equipment purchase was finalized and project partner(s) were able to generate appropriate .csv files from measurement devices. During the test phase some bugs have been discovered which required a certain additional time for bug corrections. Upon the establishment of the entire communication system pilot run was initiated. Project documentation includes the user documentation, infrastructure deployment and training material written by the project coordinator (FER-ZVNE). Deployment infrastructure consists of short and simple instructions on how to install and use ISEMIC application. At the 3^rd workshop, held on 22^nd and 23^rd of October, 2012, at the premises of Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, deployment infrastructure and user documentation were reviewed and consequently final comments and suggestions from partners are included in deliverables. Final, 4^th workshop was held in Zagreb on 10^th and 11^th of December, 2012, where all project participants discussed lessons learned as well as future plans for further development of the ISEMIC application and activities that need to be undertaken to make ISEMIC more widespread and user friendly. Furthermore, final activities with fixed deadlines were distributed to each project partner to satisfy final report requirements.

Results of the ISEMIC project have remarkable importance for all project partners in several ways:

• Within each project partner institution a program of energy and water consumption management has been launched along with the spreading the awareness of the importance of rational energy and water utilization. The project has encouraged the awareness of the people in local communities and it will certainly be a trigger for further activities in the implementation of sustainable energy management,

• The project has given a significant contribution to scientific research, particularly in the development of systems for remote, real-time reading of electricity and water consumption of capabilities of collection, processing and display of measured data. It is important to note that the WEB interface (for collecting, processing and displaying measured data) was only deployed on the server in Zagreb, while the other project partners remit their measured data to the central server over the Internet which certainly opens up many possibilities of similar cooperation in the region and beyond, 

• Through the results of the project, the wider professional and the general public (including countries other than project partner countries) are introduced with the possibilities of systematic energy management program, in particular the possibility of remote, real-time reading of energy and water consumption through lectures, presentations, papers and posters,
• Implementation of the project had a significant wider regional dimension; through the collaboration on the ISEMIC project, a network of experts in the region is created which is surely to become the basis for future cooperation on similar international projects,
• Project has significantly helped in gaining experience in participating in EU projects and significantly reduced various administrative barriers that existed in project partner institutions, especially at the beginning of the project realization. The participation of the institution from one EU country (Slovenia) significantly helped in the transfer of experience of participation in EU projects and overcoming administrative problems and barriers. Therefore, the experience and cooperation on the ISEMIC project did not only facilitate further cooperation of the participants in the project, but also to stimulate the registration and participation in other EU projects.

There are several challenges to be tackled before wider exploitation of the ISEMIC platform but the most important is related with the lack of prescribed set of hardware which can be easily installed and integrated into the system. Unfortunately, every implementation project is different due to different level of problems, processes and general approach is not feasible. Nevertheless, it will be very useful when the ISEMIC platform will be associated with the certain, prescribed set of hardware which will significantly reduce time of installation and risk of higher implementation costs.