GEN6 EU-project – Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade
of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
A. Kretsis (CTI), P. Kokkinos (CTI), E. A. Varvarigos (CTI), V.
Nikolopoulos (Intelen), E. Gkioxi (Intelen), I. Hatzakis (GRNET)
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GEN6 - Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
GEN6
– The EU-sponsored project GEN6 (Governments ENabled
with IPv6) aims at enabling existing eGovernment
infrastructure for IPv6:
• www.gen6-project.eu
– The GEN6 project sets up complementary and
interoperable national and cross-border pilots across
different EU States:
• IPv6 upgrade of eGoverment Network Infrastructures, e-Identification,
Services and Applications (Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Czech Republic and
Turkey).
• IPv6 upgrade of Secure Cloud Services (Luxembourg).
• IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks (Greece).
• IPv6 upgrade of Emergency Response Environments (Slovenia).
• and more
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Objectives
–Use IPv6 as a service enabler
–Raise energy awareness
–Engage school communities
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Pilot
The pilot provides real-time energy efficiency services over IPv6-enabled
networks to the local educational community
Energy data are recorded using
IPv6 enabled smart meters
Data are transferred
over dual stack (IPv4
and IPv6) networks
Energy data are being aggregated, processed
structured and transformed.
50 schools , 11500 students
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Web portal presents real time energy
consumption data and statistics
GEN6 - Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
Pilot’s Partners
IPv6 networks
The Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET),
responsible for providing networking and cloud computing
services to the Greek academic and research communities
energy metering
portal
analytics
school communities
The Intelen Group, a start-up company providing services to the
Energy and ICT sector, such as smart metering, meter data
management
educational methods
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The Computer Technology Institute & Press “Diophantus” (CTI),
responsible for the administration and the daily operation of the
Greek School Network
GEN6 - Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
Technical Description
Intelen - Energy
Information System
Pilot’s Portal
School Intranet
Greek Research &
Technology Network
(dual stack core)
Power Grid
Air Condition
IPv6
Heat
Student
Laptops
IPv6 over
xDSL
IPv6
Lights
Smart meter
Intelen i-box
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School CPE
Greek School
Network, CTI
(dual stack core)
GEN6 - Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
Energy Metering
• The smart metering infrastructure consists of a
consumption metering device and the i-box
• The i-box is a network device that acts as a data bridge
between the power meter and the school’s router
• Both i-box and school router have IPv6 global address
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Energy Analytics
Energy Information System in the cloud
• Energy data are being
aggregated, structured
and transformed
• Energy data are also
correlated with other
data (school area,
student count, etc.)
• Calculations and data
mining algorithms are
performed
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Networking Infrastructure
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Web Portal – gen6.cti.gr
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Web Portal – gen6.cti.gr
• Categorize schools based on their
energy efficiency using KPIs
– Energy consumption (KWh)
– Energy consumption comparison
to the previous day (%)
– Energy consumption / student /
square meters (Kwh/student/m2)
• Consumption Period:
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Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
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Web Portal – gen6.cti.gr
Search schools with various criteria
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
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Primary School
Secondary School
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Web Portal – gen6.cti.gr
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GEN6 - Greek Pilot: “IPv6 upgrade of Energy Efficiency in School Networks”
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Schools with more than one year of energy data !!!
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Current status
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Completion of installations in 50 schools in Attica, Achaia, Corinthia
Collection of energy consumption data over IPv6 from the existing systems
Dissemination activities in schools
Install other kind of sensors (e.g., weather related) to schools
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Conclusions
• IPv6 can become an enabling technology
• IPv6 in support of smart grids
– Higher Security
– Easier interoperability and fast installation
– Bi-directional communication
• IPv6 in support of IoT
– Bigger address space, everything connected
– Point-to-point control and access tunneling to real time data
• Energy Efficiency in Schools pilot has a huge impact
– 50 Greek Schools, with about 11500 students !!!
• Inform the student communities in real time
– how much energy is consumed by their actions
• Change students’ behavior towards environmental protection
• Reduce energy consumption
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Thank you!
Panagiotis Kokkinos
pkokkinos@cti.gr
www.gen6-project.eu
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www.cti.gr/en