BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Brisbane BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19920301T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241107T200910Z UID:C1ADE729-5FB1-4A56-9D56-C9112A279088 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241105T083000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241105T093000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE WiE QLD Distinguished Lecturer Event: Physical and Computa tional Modeling of Smart Homes by Prof Damla Turgut.\n\nAbstract: Novel "s mart" technologies such as smart homes\, smart grids\, variable pricing\, and local energy markets promise both better overall efficiency for the pr oviders\, a greener home\, and lower prices. However\, they also create un expected problems. During the February 2021 North-American Ice Storm\, the deregulated energy market in Texas came dangerously close to collapse\, l eading 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 very high bills for custo mers who did not lose service. This behavior penalized customers but did n othing to help in the ongoing crisis. Although it did not happen on this o ccasion\, a controller that would sell the home's energy reserves to take advantage of the high pricing would be even more dangerous for customers f acing freezing temperatures.\n\nThe lesson we can learn from these events is that "smart" systems must be extensively tested\, including for black s wan events for which no previous data is available. In this talk\, we disc uss the need for extensive modeling and simulation for all the components of such homes\, including the physical environment\, the smart controllers \, the behavior of the humans\, and the external environment\, including t he smart grids and local energy market to which the systems connect.\n\nBi o: Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor and Chair of Computer Scienc e at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the co-director of th e AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the Univ ersity of Rome ``La Sapienza''\, Imperial College of London\, and KTH Roya l Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Her research interests include wireles s ad hoc\, sensor\, underwater\, vehicular\, and social networks\, edge/cl oud computing\, smart cities\, smart grids\, IoT-enabled healthcare and au gmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committe es of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent h onors include Pegasus Professorship in 2024\, NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award f or 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 female researchers in the fields of networking and communicatio ns. Dr. Turgut is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, ACM and IEEE Sen ior Member\, the Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Computer Communi cations (TCCC).\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof Damla Turgut\n\nVirtual: https://event s.vtools.ieee.org/m/441318 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/441318 ORGANIZER:punam.pawar@uq.net.au SEQUENCE:38 SUMMARY:IEEE WiE QLD DL Presentation: Physical and Computational Modeling o f Smart Homes URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/441318 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>IEEE WiE QLD Distinguished Lecturer Event: Physical and Computational Modeling of Smart Homes by Prof Damla Turgut.< /p>\n<p><strong>Abstract</strong>: Novel "smart" technologies such as smar t homes\, smart grids\, variable pricing\, and local energy markets promis e both better overall efficiency for the providers\, a greener home\, and lower prices. However\, they also create unexpected problems. During the F ebruary 2021 North-American Ice Storm\, the deregulated energy market in T exas came dangerously 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 very high bills for customers who did not lose service. This behavior penalized customers but did nothing to help in the ongoing c risis. Although it did not happen on this occasion\, a controller that wou ld sell the home's energy reserves to take advantage of the high pricing w ould be even more dangerous for customers facing freezing temperatures.</p >\n<p>The lesson we can learn from these events is that "smart" systems mu st be extensively tested\, including for black swan events for which no pr evious data is available. In this talk\, we discuss the need for extensive modeling and simulation for all the components of such homes\, including the physical environment\, the smart controllers\, the behavior of the hum ans\, and the external environment\, including the smart grids and local e nergy market to which the systems connect.</p>\n<p><br><strong>Bio</strong >: Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor and Chair of Computer Scienc e at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the co-director of th e AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the Univ ersity of Rome ``La Sapienza''\, Imperial College of London\, and KTH Roya l Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Her research interests include wireles s ad hoc\, sensor\, underwater\, vehicular\, and social networks\, edge/cl oud computing\, smart cities\, smart grids\, IoT-enabled healthcare and au gmented reality\, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committe es of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent h onors include Pegasus Professorship in 2024\, NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award f or 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 female researchers in the fields of networking and communicatio ns. Dr. Turgut is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer\, ACM and IEEE Sen ior Member\, the Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Computer Communi cations (TCCC).</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR