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TH-E EMS

The THermisch-Elektrische Energie Management System was developed at ISC Konstanz to optimally control components of sector-coupled systems such as TH-E Box.

In order to make as much locally generated, renewable electricity as possible usable in a system, large and often sector-coupled electricity consumers such as heat pumps or electric mobility can be shifted to times when there is enough sunshine or wind. By using neural networks and with the help of weather forecasts, both the availability and the demand for electricity can be predicted with increasing accuracy. Linear-algebraic optimisation methods make it possible to calculate when, for example, a heat pump should best consume surplus energy and when a CHP unit can produce additional electricity in order to ensure a constant temperature in a building as efficiently as possible at all times.

SEAL

The Smart Energy Application Laboratory (SEAL) is a platform developed by ISC Konstanz for the decentralised control of processes and hardware components in the context of sector coupling and smart grids.

The Smart Energy Application Laboratory (SEAL) is a platform developed by ISC Konstanz for the decentralised control of processes and hardware components in the context of sector coupling and smart grids.

To ensure that control and communication with system components in real laboratories or demonstrators is permanently accessible and, above all, remotely maintainable and continuously developable, a flexible system is needed that is nevertheless robust and masters a variety of communication protocols. The software developed at the ISC (the seal stack) provides the necessary environment through proven open-source methods. With the KUNBUS Revolution Pi industrial computer, the ISC has developed a decentralised and, apart from maintenance, Internet-independent control box that places the highest priority on data protection.

The software developed at ISC Konstanz is available to the public on GitHub (under the licence GPL v3, see here).

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