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61 Unternehmen der Zukunft 2/2011 UdZ FINSENY: Future Internet for Smart Energy Design of a future Internet architecture fulfilling existing and evolving smart grid requirements such as increasing penetration of renewables and electric vehicles The Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative „Future Internet“ derives requirements and deve- lops an architecture for the future of the internet from innovative use cases in several domains (e. g. Environment, Energy, Logistics, City Safety, Web Content, Agriculture). Together with key actors of the telecommunication and energy economy, Ericsson and FIR collaborate intensively within the project FINSENY (Future INternet Smart ENergY) in the E-Mobility scenario (cf. also [3]). The goal is a comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) architecture which shall be tested in a pan-European trial afterwards. Project start was the 1st of April 2011, trials shall start in mid of 2013. FINSENY is funded under the grant agreement number 285135 of the EU-COM DG Information Society and Media. The Future Internet comprises all kinds of techno- logies and conventions that will support commu- nication and interaction in a variety of domains. In particular, the energy domain requires more and more smart solutions due to the plentiful current and future challenges (e. g. increasing usage of intermittent renewable energies). Efficient usage of information and communication technology (ICT) requires new functionality at adequate pri- ces. Therefore, key actors from the ICT and energy sectors in Europe developed FINSENY (cf. Figure 1) in order to identify ICT requirements and design a performing Future Internet Architecture for smart grids. The resulting solutions and standards will be verified in a large scale pan-European Smart Energy trial from 2013 onwards. Within the energy domain, five promising sce- narios were selected for FINSENY: Distribution Network, Micro Grid, Smart Buildings, Electric Mobility and Electronic Market Place for energy. FINSENY focuses on energy transport and energy distribution taking place as electricity. During the in depth analysis of these scenarios through use cases modeling techniques, many roles and sta- keholders were identified. Their individual needs are currently translated to ICT requirements that will lead to Future Internet ICT enablers. In the Electric Mobility scenario, Ericsson and FIR are working together with further highly competent partners to guarantee that the door- knocking electric vehicles (EVs) will be sufficiently supported by a Future Internet. EVs need to charge from the grid in order to fulfill the user’s mobility that needs to stay comfortable and flexible. In some cases, slightly discharging EVs in order to support the power grid (“Vehicle- to-Grid” [1]) at certain point in time could be economically attractive. However, large numbers of EVs can also have a negative impact on the energy infrastructure, in particular when charging occurs concurrently. Therefore, intelligent char- ging services based on information about user behavior, grid and generation capacity as well as the battery situation is required. Furthermore, the interaction and integration with the transport infrastructure needs to be considered. Figure 1: FP7: Future Internet Private-Public Partnership: Programme Architecture (Source: [2]) Projekttitel FINSENY Projekt-/Forschungs- träger EU Commission – DG Information Society and Media Förderkennzeichen 285135 Projektpartner 33 European compa- nies in the domains of ICT and Energy Ansprechpartner Dipl.-Inform.Wirt Jonas Fluhr Internet www.fi-ppp-finseny.eu Aktuelle Forschungsvorhaben