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Intelligent and Modular Platform for Management and Monitoring of City Lighting
The SmartCityLight research project is funded by European Regional Development Fund.
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SmartCityLight team attended IEEE CDC 2023 – 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control that took place on December 13-15, 2023, in Singapore.
Assoc. Prof. Vinko Lešić, PhD, presented SmartCityLight project results in the paper "Street Lighting Optimal Dimming with Model Predictive Control" by Husam I. Shaheen, Marina Gapit, Ana Martinović, Vinko Lešić
TELFOR 2023 – 31st Telecommunications Forum took place in Belgrade, Serbia during November 21-22, 2023.
Ana Martinović, MSc, presented SmartCityLight project results in the paper "Embedded Implementation of Optimal City Lighting Lamp Control" by Ana Martinović, Husam I. Shaheen, Marina Gapit, Nikolina Jurković, Denis Kereži, Mario Vašak and Vinko Lešić.
Marina Gapit, MSc, presented SmartCityLight project results in the paper "Intelligent System for Monitoring and Control of Street Lighting" by Marina Gapit, Nikolina Jurković, Husam I. Shaheen, Ana Martinović, Denis Kereži, Mario Vašak, Vinko Lešić.
PowerAfrica 2023 – IEEE PowerAfrica Conference, organized by IEEE Power and Energy Society and IEEE Industry Applications Society with strong involvement of IEEE Smart Village, took place in Marrakesh, Morocco from November 6-10, 2023.
Marina Gapit, MSc, presented SmartCityLight project results in the paper: "Ray Tracing Model of LED Street Lighting for Energy Efficiency Simulation" by Marina Gapit, Husam I. Shaheen, Sruthy Gireesan and Vinko Lešić. Assoc. Prof. Vinko Lešić, PhD participated as a speaker in the panel "Young Professionals Panel on Climate Change".
IFAC 2023 – The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control took place in Yokohama, Japan from 9th - 14th July 2023.
Assoc. Prof. Vinko Lešić, PhD presented our project results in the paper: “Model Predictive Control of Street Lighting based on Spatial Points of Interest” by Husam I. Shaheen, Marina Gapit, Sruthy Gireesan and Vinko Lešić.
Ana Martinović, MSc and Marina Gapit, MSc, both researchers on the SCL project, participated on "Distributed Control, Optimization and Learning for Network Systems" workshop where various optimization algorithms, and optimization methods used for performance improvement of control systems have been researched and analysed.
Ana Martinović, MSc and Marina Gapit, MSc, researchers on the SCL project participated in "Learning-Based Predictive Control" course held in ETH Zürich, Switzerland from 26th - 30th June, 2023. The course is a part of the "International Graduate School on Control" organized by European Embedded Control Institute (EECI).
The course was held by Prof. Melanie N. Zeilinger from the ETH Zürich and Prof. Lorenzo Fagiano from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. After a brief review of fundamentals of MPC, the course presented an overview of existing learning-based MPC methods, followed by a deep-dive into theory and applications of selected techniques for different problem settings.
SCL team participated in the 21st European Control Conference (ECC2023) held in Bucharest, Romania. Assoc. Prof. Vinko Lešić, PhD presented the paper: “Distributed Street lighting Model Predictive Control based on Spatial Points of Interest” by Husam Shaheen, Vinko Lešić, Marina Gapit and Sruthy Gireesan.
Assoc. Prof. Vinko Lešić, PhD presented the article "Distributed Parametric Model Predictive Control of Street Lighting" on The International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering 2023 held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
In the article, a distributed-MPC approach for street lighting with an adaptive dimming profile is proposed. To verify the validity and effectiveness of the proposed approach, a one year simulation is conducted using MATLAB/Simulink environment showing up to 35% operational cost savings. The results also showed that the proposed algorithm can achieve a good performance of the whole system with limited burden of communications.
The authors of the article are Husam I. Shaheen, Marina Gapit, Ana Martinović, and Vinko Lešić. The article can be found here.
A part of SCL research team in collaboration with fellow LARES researchers published an article in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, a prestigious IEEE scientific journal.
The article titled "Data-Driven Modeling of Urban Traffic Travel Times for Short-and Long-Term Forecasting" - H. Novak, F. Bronić, A. Kolak, Vinko Lešić, compares data-driven statistical and machine learning approaches for urban traffic travel times forecasting which is of critical importance for efficient supply chain logistics and accurate navigation services. In addition, accurate prediction data is vital for developing effective model predictive control algorithms that can be used in smart city lighting. A detailed analysis of the available historical data is performed, including historical floating car data for a one-year period. The ariticle can be found here.
The young researcher from SCL team, Marina Gapit M.Sc., presented in The International Conference on Industrial Technology 2023 held in Orlando, Florida, USA.
In the presented paper titled "Adaptable Simulation Environment for LED Streetlight Dimming Control System" a simulation environmend used in SCL project was displayed. The adaptable simulation environment is vital for testing the developed model predictive control algorithms for public lighting control system. Such intelligent control of street lighting can contribute to the development of smart lighting and ultimately become a part of Smart Cities concept.
The authors of the paper are Marina Gapit M.Sc., Husam Shaheen Ph.D. and assoc. prof. Vinko Lešić, all a part of the SmartCityLight project team.
In the special, 30th edition of the professional journal EGE (energy, economy, ecology and ethics) in the "new technologies" category, an article was published about the successful collaboration between FER and Led Elektronika d.o.o. on the SmartCityLight project.
The article describes the current state of public lighting and emphasizes the goals of the SCL project - research and algorithmic and circuit development of a distributed and autonomous control-telemetry platform that, by predictive adaptation to future profiles of microlocation conditions (weather conditions, density of vehicle and pedestrian traffic, etc.), achieves significant energy savings, lowers investment and maintenance costs while simultaneously increasing safety conditions and visual comfort for users.
The 103rd celebration of the Faculty Day of Electrical Engineering and Computing was held on Friday, November 25, 2022. The ceremony included a speech by the dean and other guests, with recognition and awards given to the best students.
Also, as a part of the FER Faculty Day, a poster exhibition was set up presenting the projects implemented at FER. One of the projects presented was SmartCityLight project.
The poster was introduced by Marina Gapit, mag.ing., a young researcher from the SCL team.
LARES team members, assoc. prof. Vinko Lešić and Hrvoje Novak PhD, presented at the Data Science Conference Europe 2022, in Belgrade.
Our team demonstrated how can machine learning modelling be combined with advanced model predictive control strategies to improve the way our cities operate. Results from buildings, water distribution systems, urban transport, city lighting and many more were showcased and joined together under a common term of smart cities. Among the results, also the SmartCityLight project was presented in the context of Smart Cities 4.0 topic.
Interesting lectures, enticing discussions and an overall great conference atmosphere summarize the impressions.
A part of SmartCityLight technical team alongside other researchers from FER have attended the scientific training workshop called "ELO-X Fall School and Workshop" which took place in Freiburg, Germany during October 3-11,2022.
Theoretical background and hands-on practical knowledge in the field of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) was acquired. An intensive course was taught by Prof. Joschka Boedecker and Prof. Moritz Diehl both from the University of Freiburg.
In addition, the soft skill workshop "How to plan and develop a research project" by Dr. Frank Krüger and Christian Jäger both from University of Freiburg was held.
The workshop was followed by techical seminars guest lectures given by Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Ohtsuka (Kyoto University - Japan), Dr. Rien Quirynen (MERL - Boston US), Dr. Yuval Tassa (Google Deepmind - UK), Prof. Dr. Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Dr. Stefan Gerig (Bosch - Germany), Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger (ETHZ, Switzerland), Prof. Dr. Silvia Mastellone (FHNW - Switzerland) and others.
A regular technical meeting of SmartCityLight project was held on May 4, 2022 with researchers from LED elektronika and FER.
FER team presented their progress on mathematical modelling of light propagation in space and in weather conditions, followed by description of complex cost function for the optimisation of lighting amount in various points of space. Wide possibilities of the algorithms were presented and discussed from both theoretical and practical aspects.
LE team presented their work on advanced dimming controller prototype and integration with their PrecisionLux street lamps series, together with connectivity possibilities with central PrecisionLeap advanced SCADA system. The team shared their practical experience about on-site challenges and aspects to take into account during next stages of the project.
Laboratory for Renewable Energy Sources (LARES) held their third AI Bootcamp - an intensive, one-week course covering a typical AI project flow, from getting and understanding the data, tuning the models, all the way to their implementation, initial results, and fine-tuning, all accompanied with real datasets and practical examples.
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This time, held during February 14-18, 2022, the complete SmartCityLight team of researchers participated in it, learning about machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to further apply in smart cities.
Organized together with IEEE Croatia Section and its Control Systems Society Chapter and Power and Energy Society Chapter, LARES member Husam Shaheen held a lecture entitled „Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Application in Power System“ on March 8, 2022.
Husam Shaheen, PhD, is a Profesor at Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria, with several years of experience at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei, China and Xiamen University of Technology (XMUT), Xiamen, Fujian, China, and currently a visiting researcher at LARES under SmartCityLight project.
As of beginning of 2021, Laboratory for Renewable Energy Systems is involved in four new projects funded from the call Strengthening R&D and Innovation Potentials (STRIP) through the Operative Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion for Croatia in period 2014-2020. The STRIP call was launched by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education and was highly competitive. Each of the projects is performed with one partner company.
These projects are:
- Development of an expert system for measuring lightning strokes parameters and protection of wind turbine blades in order to reduce failures and downtime (project code: KK.01.1.1.07.0028, acronym: DESMe, partner company: Porzana d.o.o.);
- Dynamical predictive protection of electric vehicle battery health (project code: KK.01.1.1.07.0029, acronym: EVBattPredtect, partner company: Rimac automobili d.o.o.);
- Universal communication and control system for industrial plants (project: KK.01.1.1.07.0034, acronym: UKUS, partner company: Brodotehna d.o.o.).
- Intelligent and modular platform for control and monitoring of smart city lighting - SmartCityLight (project code: KK.01.1.1.07.0032, acronym: SmartCityLight, partner company: LED elektronika d.o.o.);
The projects are co-funded by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund. They will enable to open new chapters of research in LARES and contribute to boost the Croatian economy through new knowledge, skills and prototypes of competitve new products.
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