EUREKA Innovation Award
let's dev and all partners of the international research project SPEAR (Smart Prognosis of Energy with Allocation of Resources) were awarded with the Eureka Innovation Award in the category Sustainability and Innovation.
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let's dev and all partners of the international research project SPEAR (Smart Prognosis of Energy with Allocation of Resources) were awarded with the Eureka Innovation Award in the category Sustainability and Innovation.
The Eureka Innovation Awards is a competition launched by the the Eureka’s Portuguese Chairmanship in collaboration with national funding bodies of the Eureka Network countries to recognise and celebrate innovative projects and organisations that stand out because of their outreach, impact and value generated for business and society in five categories:
The international research project SPEAR was implemented together with a consortium consisting of partners from Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and Turkey and was awarded the Eureka Innovation Award in the category "Best Sustainability Innovation". The project ran for three years and was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. One focus of the project was on the energy optimisation of production processes, production lines and buildings.
By precisely calculating energy consumption, industrial customers can save energy costs. Energy-intensive processes, for example, can be shifted to time windows where sufficient and cheaper energy is available. This plays a significant role, for example, in the use of renewable energies such as wind power or solar energy. In addition to improving the use of renewable energy by matching production schedules to availability periods, utilities can more easily design, manage and balance the power grid. This reduces the overall energy demand. At the same time, industrial customers are helped to reduce their effective emissions - which is becoming increasingly important due to legal and regulatory aspects.
let's dev led WP5 "Implementation and interfaces of the optimisation platform" and was responsible for the implementation and coordination of all activities regarding the SPEAR optimisation platform: from the analysis of the requirements to the realisation of the demonstrator.
A central innovation of SPEAR is the mirroring of the energy consumption of the production plant by simulating extended behavioural models on low-cost hardware. This hardware is also used for embedded hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations that run in parallel with the real plant, so that the digital twin of a plant is extended by a digital shadow. This allows highly flexible and cost-effective approaches to be explored, implemented, and the planning and execution of the production system to be optimised through accurate simulation of the production processes. This supports efforts such as Industry 4.0 or Smart Industry.
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