BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Honolulu BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19470608T023000 TZOFFSETFROM:-1130 TZOFFSETTO:-1000 TZNAME:HST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240606T062539Z UID:85C85D7C-FEF0-4658-88D0-4A1C532E33F4 DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20240605T160000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20240605T171500 DESCRIPTION:Novel “smart” technologies such as smart homes\, smart grid s\, variable pricing\, and local energy markets promise both better overal l efficiency for the providers\, a greener home\, and lower prices. Howeve r\, they also create unexpected problems. During the February 2021 North-A merican Ice Storm\, the deregulated energy market in Texas came dangerousl y close to collapse\, leading to rolling brownouts and loss of service in many homes that relied on electric power for heating. As a response\, the variable pricing system shot up to $5000 per kilowatt hour\, generating ve ry high bills for customers who did not lose service. This behavior penali zed customers but did nothing to help in the ongoing crisis. Although it d id not happen on this occasion\, a controller that would sell the home’s energy reserves to take advantage of the high pricing would be even more dangerous for customers facing freezing temperatures. The lesson we can le arn from these events is that “smart” systems must be extensively test ed\, including for black swan events for which no previous data is availab le.\n\nIn this talk\, we discuss the need for extensive modeling and simul ation for all the components of such homes\, including the physical enviro nment\, the smart controllers\, the behavior of the humans\, and the exter nal environment\, including the smart grids and local energy market to whi ch the systems connect.\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Turgut\, Charles Millican Professo r of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida.\n\nShe is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher posi tions at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”\, Imperial College of Lo ndon\, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Her research intere sts include wireless ad hoc\, sensor\, underwater\, vehicular\, and social networks\, edge/cloud computing\, smart cities\, smart grids\, IoT-enable d healthcare and augmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards a nd program committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences . Her most recent honors include the NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Underg raduate Research (MAUR)\, the UCF Research Incentive Award\, and the UCF W omen of Distinction Award. Since 2019\, she serves as the N2Women Board Co -Chair where she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supportin g female researchers in the fields of networking and communications. She i s an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, IEEE Senior Member\, and the Cha ir-Elect of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) .\n\n[]\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421435 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421435 ORGANIZER:quynh.tran@ieee.org SEQUENCE:18 SUMMARY:Distinguished lecturer: Physical and computational modeling of smar t homes URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/421435 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start pa ra-style-body">Novel &ldquo\;smart&rdquo\; technologies such as smart home s\, smart grids\, variable pricing\, and local energy markets promise both better overall efficiency for the providers\, a greener home\, and lower prices. However\, they also create unexpected problems. During the Februar y 2021 North-American Ice Storm\, the deregulated energy market in Texas c ame dangerously close to collapse\, leading to rolling brownouts and loss of service in many homes that relied on electric power for heating. As a r esponse\, the variable pricing system shot up to $5000 per kilowatt hour\, generating very high bills for customers who did not lose service. This b ehavior penalized customers but did nothing to help in the ongoing crisis. Although it did not happen on this occasion\, a controller that would sel l the home&rsquo\;s energy reserves to take advantage of the high pricing would be even more dangerous for customers facing freezing temperatures. T he lesson we can learn from these events is that &ldquo\;smart&rdquo\; sys tems must be extensively tested\, including for black swan events for whic h no previous data is available.</p>\n<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align -start para-style-body">In this talk\, we discuss the need for extensive m odeling and simulation for all the components of such homes\, including th e physical environment\, the smart controllers\, the behavior of the human s\, and the external environment\, including the smart grids and local ene rgy market to which the systems connect.</p>\n<p class="cvGsUA direction-l tr align-start para-style-body"><strong><em>Speaker: </em>Dr. Turgut\, Cha rles Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central F lorida.</strong></p>\n<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-styl e-body">She is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visit ing researcher positions at the University of Rome &ldquo\;La Sapienza&rdq uo\;\, Imperial College of London\, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology\ , Sweden. Her research interests include wireless ad hoc\, sensor\, underw ater\, vehicular\, and social networks\, edge/cloud computing\, smart citi es\, smart grids\, IoT-enabled healthcare and augmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent honors include the NCWIT 20 21 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR)\, the UCF Research In centive Award\, and the UCF Women of Distinction Award. Since 2019\, she s erves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair where she co-leads the activities of t he N2Women Board in supporting female researchers in the fields of network ing and communications. She is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, IEE E Senior Member\, and the Chair-Elect of the IEEE Technical Committee on C omputer Communications (TCCC).</p>\n<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-s tart para-style-body"><img src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/m edia/display/2aa4a363-f9eb-47db-986c-5fa4f2a962b8" alt="" width="584" heig ht="489"></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR