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Task: 
* ''Propose a concept for a Lab which supports researchers in the area of self-organizing smart grids''
* ''State the relevant resources (software, hardware, installations) which would be needed for such a lab.''

==Group 2==

Name: EMMMA (Wil, Martina, Marc, Manfred, Anna)

* server running central services for various applications (~ 10k€)
* a number of workstations (~ 5k€)
* tablet computers (10 k€)
* model miniatures of a town with interactive buttons (10 k€)
* real-time HIL power system (RTDS)
* Reference installation "Office Setup" (5 k€)
* Wind turbine, photovoltaic system, batteries (25 k€)
* Reference loads (5 k€)
* Software (Smart metering, Labview, ect.) (price strongly depends on license type)

==Group 3==
* Participants: Johannes, Andrea, Sven, Oliver, Astrid

===Users of the SG lab===
* Sensor networks people, distributed system people, ...
* computer scientists interested in the control and communication level of Smart Grids

===What do they use it for?===
Evolve our approaches & convince power systems people that our approaches perform well in the actual power system in place
 
===We need ...===
Abstraction layer to speed up deployment to field trials / component or system focussed testing labs

===Grid Simulation or real grid components? ===
Simulation: commercial? To some extent, e.g. we could use PowerFactory

===Time scale===
* Several seconds
* Quasi-static grid simulation

===Concept===
*Evaluate different communication technologies and protocols to see how appropriate they would be for self-organisation approaches in the Smart Grid 
--> Emulation platform (Hardware-in-the-loop)
* Understand dynamics in such a system, get to know the main problems 
--> Get the sensor data/simulation results in the needed resolution
* Verify simulations: Close enough to reality: hardware
* Evaluate grid & component coordination
* Real time requirements?
* Easily switch between coordination approaches (conventional / self-organised / hierarchical) to evaluate their performance
--> Layered concept with defined interfaces


==Group 4==
* Participants: 

===Goal of the Lab===
*Test whether self-organising solutions can help in:
**achieving better performance
**mastering complexity in control
**robustness of the overall system
*The long-term goal of the lab is providing tools for live-testing of self-organising solutions

===More in practice===
*produce hardware/software tools and  social systems to be deployed to prosumers
**must be accepted by users
**must be allowed by providers

===Interdisciplinary===
*Electrical Engineering
*Informatics
*Information Technology
*Physics
*Sociology
*Economics

===The Perfect Lab===
*Provide both simulation tools and experimental platforms
*Seamless transition from simulation to the physical apparatuses and back

===The Setup of the Lab===
*Simulation platform
**portable language
**modular
**characterised against physical devices and realistic user behaviour
*Need a cluster computing service for parallel simulation

===The Setup of the Lab===
*Playground lab for testing the tools
**Simulating a single household
*Field tests households (about 20)