Welcome to REViSITE

Defining the ICT4EE research agenda ...

New! The REViSITE final High Level Report: Multi-disciplinary Strategic Research Agenda for ICT-enabled Energy Efficiency is now available. Click here to download the report.

Prof. Tarek Hassan from Loughborough University introduces the REViSITE project

REViSITE is working for the European Commission to identify cross-sectoral research priorities covering the domains of grids, manufacturing, buildings and lighting, for Europe in the area of ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE). The priorities are needed to direct the EC funding for Research in Technological Developments in this area over the coming years.

The REViSITE Strategic Research Agenda report is now available here.

All deliverables and reports from the REViSITE project are available here.

Our initial analysis of recent and current research initiatives in the area of ICT4EE suggests that the following research areas are of high priority:

Technical interoperability and standardisation
Design for energy-efficiency in all sectors
Metrics and methods for quantitative assessment of ICT impacts
The difficulty in substantiating the casual connection between research and technical development themes
The importance of data visualisation and decision support particularly in the usage phase of each sector

Keith Ellis from INTEL talks about the REViSITE Framework & SMARTT taxonomy

Key quotes:

"A lot can be learnt from transferring models, views and ideas from one sector to the others"
Bruno Smets, Philips Lighting, The Netherlands
"I think that there are a lot of ideas that equally apply to manufacturing, buildings and the other two sectors that can improve energy efficiency"
Shahin Rahimifard, Loughborough University, UK
"Commerce and profit will drive the ICT developments within the next 5-8 years. If they have the spin off benefit of producing energy savings then we won all round"
Andrew Eastwell, BSRIA Ltd, UK
"An optimal energy management can provide solution and benefits in terms of costs, environment and will allow to move to the low carbon society"
Alfio Galatà, AG Saving, Italy