Smart Electrical Grid Integration Platform (SEGIP)

The closing conference of the Smart Electrical Grid Integration Platform (SEGIP) project was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in Osijek on September 20, 2021, organized by Base58. In addition to the members of the project team, project holders, and partners, other numerous guests from the field of electricity industry from the companies HEP, Končar, the association HRO CIGRE also attended the conference.

After the welcome speeches, the members of the project team explained a bit more about the project itself and explained that it is a platform that enables the advanced management of distribution networks. To end consumers ie. households, the platform offers the opportunity to engage higher consumption when market opportunities are most favorable. 

The project leaders pointed out that the platform is currently in the pilot implementation phase at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in Osijek, and after successful final testing, it is planned to start commercialization on the local and international markets.

After the presentation of the platform, a panel discussion on the topic "Digital future of electricity" followed, which was attended by Prof. Marinko Barukčić Ph.D. (FERIT), Ph.D. Stjepan Sučić (Končar-KET), M.E. Ivan Periša (HEP-ODS) and Ph.D. Marko Vukobratović (Base58).

The SEGIP project was presented at a conference entitled "3rd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering". The conference was held under the sponsorship of the IEEE.

The conference was originally held in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, but due to the epidemiological situation, it was held as a video conference for two days, June 12 and 13, 2021. The scientific paper describing the SEGIP project was presented under the title “Efficient Integration Model of MAS and Blockchain for the Emergence of Self-Organized Smart Grids”. 

The paper fully describes the SEGIP project and its innovative advantages over conventional solutions in the targeted area of power systems engineering and software development. Special attention was given to the Multi-Agent System (MAS), which was successfully implemented as part of the SEGIP project and represents an innovative way of modeling the distribution network in order to optimize its operation.

More information about the conference can be found at: https://www.icecce.com/

On March 26, 2021 in Osijek, the Bounding Box 2021 conference took place with the aim of promoting and better understanding the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and showing how technology affects almost all aspects of our lives. During the conference, 12 lecturers from companies and scientific and educational institutions presented the areas and ways of applying Artificial Intelligence in real international and domestic projects. The conference was organized by Protostar Labs, a company specialized in computer vision and robotics, in collaboration with the creative agency Adverta.

Base58 provided a lecture with a presentation entitled „Application of Computational Intelligence (CI) in electrical engineering through the SEGIP project“ where representatives of the Base58 and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in Osijek discussed the integration of Computational Intelligence-based methods in individual components of the project solution. 

The lecture explained the possibility and achievements of the application of Computational Intelligence, a subset of Artificial Intelligence, through biologically inspired optimization algorithms and various metaheuristic methods. The constraints and computational requirements of the power system have been considered when integrating individual optimization procedures and the preliminary results acceptable for public disclosure have been presented.

The conference was held with the consent of the Civil Protection Headquarters and in accordance with current recommendations, considering all epidemiological measures. The gathering was organized exclusively for lecturers and organizers, while for all other interested was organized transmission via Zoom application, with prior registration.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek hosted and organized this year the fourth international scientific conference “International Conference on Smart Systems and Technologies 2020” (SST 2020), which took place from 14 to 16 October 2020 in Osijek.

The conference aimed to provide researchers and experts with a platform for the development and dissemination of scientific and professional knowledge in the field of smart systems and technologies, primarily in electrical engineering, computer science, communication technologies, automation, robotics, but also all other interdisciplinary fields and applications.

The steering and program committee of the conference brought together over 90 distinguished scientists from about 10 countries. Presentations of 36 international peer-reviewed papers were held in 11 sections, and papers will be published in the proceedings SST 2020 Proceedings which will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and other scientific and professional databases in the field of electrical engineering and computing.

Also, four workshops, two invited lectures and two technical lectures were held.

At the workshop “Smart Grid and Internet of Energy” the current results of the project “SEGIP” were presented and presentations were given by representatives of Base58 Ltd (Project beneficiary) and representatives of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Information Technology (Project partner).

More information is available at: https://sst-conference.org/