Theme: Digitalisation / Demand Flexibility

Policy Brief – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems: key findings from four reports

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of four recent EMSA publications on digitalisation in electric motor systems.

Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part II: Technical recommendations for industrial end-users

In this publication, EMSA provides recommendations for industrial end-users on how to digitalise their motor systems.

Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part I: Findings for policy makers

This report summarises EMSA’s research on the digitalisation of electric motor systems between 2021 – 2024. It formulates nine recommendations for policy makers on how to advance digitalisation in motor systems.

Policy Brief – Policy Development on Energy Efficiency of Data Centres

Provides an overview of initiatives for data centres; summarises the energy savings from potential measures and presents a range of issues for policy makers to consider.

Policy brief – Harnessing Smart and Dumb Devices

This policy brief deals with harnessing energy benefits from the ‘internet of things’ and how to turn existing ‘dumb’ appliances into smart ones using retrofit solutions.

Policy Brief – Interoperability

Policy brief pertaining to the issue of appliance ‘interoperability’ and the impact of this on demand flexibility

Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part IV: Energy consumption due to the digitalisation of electric motor systems

By analysing current research and real-life cases in industry, EMSA looked at the energy expenditure to facilitate digitalisation in electric motor systems.

Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part III: Catalogue of case studies

EMSA presents eight concrete cases of companies who used digital solutions to optimise their processes, thereby saving energy.

Policy Brief – Energy Management Protocols

Summarises the EDNA Guide to Energy Management Protocols, which is a resource for policy makers. Gives an overview, description and categorisation of protocols, their relevance to energy management, and details of market uptake.

Guide to Energy Management Protocols

This report is a guide to ‘application layer’ communications protocols used for energy management, such as those used to facilitate intelligent efficiency and demand flexibility.

Standardisation for Smart Devices

This report highlights the most relevant standards in areas such as measurement of energy consumption of smart devices, and communication protocols for smart devices.

Interoperability

The objective of this study is to gain a better understanding on the issue of (a lack of) device interoperability and the resultant impact of this on Intelligent Efficiency and Demand Flexibility

Policy Brief – Digital technologies for motor systems

This Policy Brief shows the key findings of the EMSA report Classification of digitalisation technologies for electric motor driven systems.

Classification of digitalisation technologies for electric motor driven systems

This report by EMSA provides a classification of different digitalisation technologies applied for motor systems. The following technologies are analysed: sensors, Internet of Things, intelligent control, data analytics, real-time monitoring, artificial intelligence, digital twins, cloud based services, augmented reality, additive manufacturing, robotics, drones.

Policy Brief – Blockchain Energy Consumption

This policy brief explains how blockchains work, their use for cryptocurrencies and resulting energy consumption

Policy Brief – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of a global survey on digitalisation in motor systems.  

Are We Getting the Best Out of Smart Home Technologies? The Role of Usability

This joint report with the Users TCP investigates ‘usability’ issues associated with energy smart digital devices.

Policy Brief – Energy Applications within IoT and Digitalisation Strategies

Provides guiding principles to policy makers for the development of digitalisation strategies that incorporate demand flexibility and intelligent efficiency applications as key objectives.

Policy Brief – Roadmap for Consumer Devices to Participate in Demand Flexibility

This policy brief sets out a guide for the development of country roadmaps for consumer device demand flexibility.

Policy Brief – Policy Guidance for Energy Smart Digital Devices

Provides policy guidance for encouraging the development of consumer devices which are capable of ‘energy smart digital  functionality’