BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211209T211045Z UID:550EA430-A414-4BF6-893D-5882BC609087 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20211104T180000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20211104T193000 DESCRIPTION:Topic: Physical and computational modeling of smart homes\n\nAb stract: Novel "smart" technologies such as smart homes\, smart grids\, var iable pricing\, and local energy markets promise both better overall effic iency for the providers\, a greener home\, and lower prices. However\, the y also create unexpected problems. During the February 2021 North-American Ice Storm\, the deregulated energy market in Texas came dangerously close to collapse\, leading to rolling brownouts and loss of service in many ho mes that relied on electric power for heating. As a response\, the variabl e pricing system shot up to $5000 per kilowatt hour\, generating very high bills for customers who did not lose service. This behavior penalized cus tomers but did nothing to help in the ongoing crisis. Although it did not happen on this occasion\, a controller that would sell the home's energy r eserves to take advantage of the high pricing would be even more dangerous for customers facing freezing temperatures.\n\nThe lesson we can learn fr om these events is that "smart" systems must be extensively tested\, inclu ding for black swan events for which no previous data is available. In thi s talk\, we discuss the need for extensive modeling and simulation for all the components of such homes\, including the physical environment\, the s mart controllers\, the behavior of the humans\, and the external environme nt\, including the smart grids and local energy market to which the system s connect.\n\nBio: Dr. Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor of Compu ter Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the co-dire ctor of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions a t the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''\, Imperial College of London\, an d KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Her research interests inclu de wireless ad hoc\, sensor\, underwater\, vehicular\, and social networks \, edge/cloud computing\, smart cities\, smart grids\, IoT-enabled healthc are and augmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the In ternet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and progra m committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her mos t recent honors include the NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate R esearch (MAUR)\, the UCF Research Incentive Award\, and the UCF Women of D istinction Award. Since 2019\, she serves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair wh ere she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supporting female researchers in the fields of networking and communications. She is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, IEEE Senior Member\, and the Chair-Elect of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).\n\nVirt ual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285999 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285999 ORGANIZER:jmmoskal@ieee.org SEQUENCE:6 SUMMARY:Physical and Computational Modeling of Smart Homes URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285999 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Topic: Physical and computational modeling of smart homes</strong></p>\n<p>Abstract: Novel "smart" technolog ies such as smart homes\, smart grids\, variable pricing\, and local energ y markets promise both better overall efficiency for the providers\, a gre ener home\, and lower prices. However\, they also create unexpected proble ms. During the February 2021 North-American Ice Storm\, the deregulated en ergy market in Texas came dangerously close to collapse\, leading to rolli ng brownouts and loss of service in many homes that relied on electric pow er for heating. As a response\, the variable pricing system shot up to $50 00 per kilowatt hour\, generating very high bills for customers who did no t lose service. This behavior penalized customers but did nothing to help in the ongoing crisis. Although it did not happen on this occasion\, a con troller that would sell the home's energy reserves to take advantage of th e high pricing would be even more dangerous for customers facing freezing temperatures.</p>\n<p>The lesson we can learn from these events is that "s mart" systems must be extensively tested\, including for black swan events for which no previous data is available. In this talk\, we discuss the ne ed for extensive modeling and simulation for all the components of such ho mes\, including the physical environment\, the smart controllers\, the beh avior of the humans\, and the external environment\, including the smart g rids and local energy market to which the systems connect.</p>\n<p><br />B io: <strong>Dr. Damla Turgut</strong> is Charles Millican Professor of Com puter Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the co-di rector of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''\, Imperial College of London\, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Her research interests inc lude wireless ad hoc\, sensor\, underwater\, vehicular\, and social networ ks\, edge/cloud computing\, smart cities\, smart grids\, IoT-enabled healt hcare and augmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and prog ram committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her m ost recent honors include the NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR)\, the UCF Research Incentive Award\, and the UCF Women of Distinction Award. Since 2019\, she serves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair where she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supporting femal e researchers in the fields of networking and communications. She is an IE EE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, IEEE Senior Member\, and the Chair-Elec t of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR