CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCED AS A FINALIST IN SEAI SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AWARDS
Award Finalist
28th September 2018: The Nimbus Centre at Cork Institute of Technology is delighted to have been announced as a finalist in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) Energy Awards which encourage and reward excellence in energy management. 32 organisations across nine categories have made it through to the gala Awards ceremony on 25 October where winners will be named. The announcement is a recognition of the work and effort Cork Institute of Technology has put in and underlines our commitment to a sustainable model for the benefit of our environment and our community.
The Project
Working as part of an EU H2020 project known as TOPAs (Tools for Continuous Building Performance Auditing, grant agreement No 676760) the Nimbus research team developed a context driven framework and tool which provides an integrated view of relevant performance metrics at all levels from device, zone, building and blocks of buildings supporting users with the highest knowledge empowerment to ensure sustained energy efficiency gains. We have carried out significant work by:
- Using the Internet of Things to better understanding the link between occupant behaviour and energy wastage.
- Achieve total primary energy consumption savings in the region of 24% compared to measured baseline at CIT.
- Develop tools that utilise building data to provide insight, decision support and continuous energy auditing for building managers
Michael Coughlan, Buildings and Estates Office of Cork Institute of Technology said:
“As a public body, CIT is committed to a 33% improvement in our energy efficiency as we head towards 2020, by working closely with the research team in Nimbus the CIT energy team are able to get a clear insight into impact of energy efficiency measures that are put in place and help educate occupants and energy practitioners on energy management and responsibility through real world demonstration of novel approaches.”
Commenting on the competition, Jim Gannon, Chief Executive, SEAI said:
“Each year the SEAI Energy Awards showcase excellence in sustainable energy. We all have a say in what our energy future will look like and we all have a responsibility to act. The Awards finalists are leading the way in this action and are demonstrating how other organisations can push the boundaries of more sustainable energy generation and energy efficiency activities. I commend them on their significant achievements.”
The Awards are supported by category sponsors Enprova and Gas Networks Ireland.
Full details on the finalist projects are available from www.seai.ie
For further information, please contact:
Alan McGibney, Nimbus Research Centre, alan.mcgibney@cit.ie
CIT Project Team
Visit TOPAs project website: https://www.topas-eeb.eu
CIT Project Team: Alan McGibney, Susan Rea, Kritchai Witheephanich, Barry Gettings.
Prof Dirk Pesch
Publications
As the Nimbus Research Centre, we pride ourselves on the quality of publications produced by our team. We are involved in both research and industry projects. Some publications involving industry projects are not available to the public as they contain confidential details.
Disclaimer: Some publications listed below were produced by our staff prior to joining Nimbus Centre. The Nimbus Research Centre does not claim these publications as our own.
C. Lynch, J. Kehoe, R. Bain, F. Zhang, J. Flynn, C. O’Leary, G. Smith, R. Linger, K. Fitzgibbon and F. Feijoo, “SVM-Based Day-Ahead Electricity Price Prediction Model for the Single Electricity Market in Ireland”, ISF 2019, 39th International Symposium on Forecasting, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 -19th Jun. 2019
S. Reis, D. Pesch, B.-L. Wenning, M. Kuhn, “Empirical Path Loss Model for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks in Compact Cars“, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
G. Nikolov, M. Kuhn, B.-L. Wenning, “UE-Based Estimation of Available Uplink Data Rates in Cellular Networks”, in 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
Contact us for more information
Please contact Prof. John Barrett, Head of Nimbus
- john.barrett@cit.ie
- +353 (0)21 4335565
Prof Dirk Pesch
Publications
As the Nimbus Research Centre, we pride ourselves on the quality of publications produced by our team. We are involved in both research and industry projects. Some publications involving industry projects are not available to the public as they contain confidential details.
Disclaimer: Some publications listed below were produced by our staff prior to joining Nimbus Centre. The Nimbus Research Centre does not claim these publications as our own.
C. Lynch, J. Kehoe, R. Bain, F. Zhang, J. Flynn, C. O’Leary, G. Smith, R. Linger, K. Fitzgibbon and F. Feijoo, “SVM-Based Day-Ahead Electricity Price Prediction Model for the Single Electricity Market in Ireland”, ISF 2019, 39th International Symposium on Forecasting, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 -19th Jun. 2019
S. Reis, D. Pesch, B.-L. Wenning, M. Kuhn, “Empirical Path Loss Model for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks in Compact Cars“, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
G. Nikolov, M. Kuhn, B.-L. Wenning, “UE-Based Estimation of Available Uplink Data Rates in Cellular Networks”, in 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
Contact us for more information
Please contact Prof. John Barrett, Head of Nimbus
- john.barrett@cit.ie
- +353 (0)21 4335565
Prof Dirk Pesch
Publications
As the Nimbus Research Centre, we pride ourselves on the quality of publications produced by our team. We are involved in both research and industry projects. Some publications involving industry projects are not available to the public as they contain confidential details.
Disclaimer: Some publications listed below were produced by our staff prior to joining Nimbus Centre. The Nimbus Research Centre does not claim these publications as our own.
C. Lynch, J. Kehoe, R. Bain, F. Zhang, J. Flynn, C. O’Leary, G. Smith, R. Linger, K. Fitzgibbon and F. Feijoo, “SVM-Based Day-Ahead Electricity Price Prediction Model for the Single Electricity Market in Ireland”, ISF 2019, 39th International Symposium on Forecasting, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 -19th Jun. 2019
S. Reis, D. Pesch, B.-L. Wenning, M. Kuhn, “Empirical Path Loss Model for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks in Compact Cars“, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
G. Nikolov, M. Kuhn, B.-L. Wenning, “UE-Based Estimation of Available Uplink Data Rates in Cellular Networks”, in 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018), Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
Contact us for more information
Please contact Prof. John Barrett, Head of Nimbus
- john.barrett@cit.ie
- +353 (0)21 4335565
