VANCOUVER, B.C. & NICOSIA, Cyprus - Monday, September 23rd 2013 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS
WIRE) The University of Cyprus has opened a BPL Competence Centre (as
part of its newly established Research Centre for Sustainable Energy)
with the support of industry technology leader Corinex Communications.
The Centre is equipped with the latest in Corinex BPL-to-the-meter
technology, with facilities for testing and validating BPL
communications performance on LV and MV lines and free samples from
leading meter vendors.
The Centre now forms part of the
University’s School of Engineering, with a dedicated staff of over 20
researchers. The Centre is headed by George E. Georghiou, former Fellow
at the University of Cambridge and the Chair of Photovoltaic Technology
at the University of Cyprus.
BPL technology is hundreds of times
faster than any other narrowband powerline technology used for meter
data acquisition, yet at nearly the same nominal costs. This high speed
capability makes it easy to deploy and apply full AES 56-bit or 128-bit
security. It also offers endless opportunity for further innovation.
“I
believe we are seeing the beginning of a major shift in requirements in
metering infrastructure from collecting meter data for billing purposes
to load management within the meter cluster. As ever growing
proportions of our energy are produced by renewable sources, this
management has to be dynamic – almost happening in real-time. This can
only be achieved using a very high speed communications technology –
BPL,” says Professor George E. Georghiou.
“We see utilities
expressing interest in automated load management on the LV level. It
requires—within minutes—responsive delivery of metered data and supplied
energy measurements, including local PV production, to the local Smart
Grid concentrator unit. The Corinex concentrator is powerful and fast in
communicating with the meters. It is ready to employ sophisticated
algorithms to process these data together with data on forecasted
weather in order to generate effective responses and issue commands to
the meters, such that efficient localized energy load management and/or
storage is realized,” says Peter Sobotka, CEO of Corinex.
In this
commercial cooperation, parties plan to enrich the Corinex BPL
concentrator and SmartGrid solution with new algorithms researched and
developed by the University, and then validate them with Corinex
customers. The University also plans to introduce a new learning subject
specialization: Energy Sustainability and Smart Grids, which include
BPL and its applications in the Energy sector.
Corinex
Communications Corp. develops and manufactures Smart Metering and Smart
Grid Communication infrastructure. Its products, software and solutions
cover load and asset management, energy theft and security. Corinex high
speed BPL communication is AES-128 bit encrypted and supports multiple
meter vendors conforming to ANSI and IEC standards as well as SNMP
and/or DLMS/COSEM protocols. It can be used either to backhaul data
among concentrators on MV lines and/or provide communication also within
metering cluster. Corinex ranked five consecutive years among the
Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Canada and USA in Deloitte’s
Tech Fast 50/500 Program www.fast50.com, www.fast500.com.
Since
its establishment in 1989, the University of Cyprus has consistently
pursued excellence, fulfilling its mission to the Cypriot society.
Today, the University is recognized as the most important research and
higher education institution of Cyprus, and has also, moreover, been
honored as a ‘distinguished Mediterranean University’.
Currently,
the University comprises six Faculties and 21 Departments offering a
wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research study programs to
7,000 enrolled students. The University employs over 900 people in its
academic and administrative staff.
The Research Centre for
Sustainable Energy (RCSE), University of Cyprus, was created in order to
play a key role in research and technological development activities in
the field of energy within Cyprus and at international level with the
aim of contributing to the achievement of the relevant energy and
environment objectives set out by Europe. In particular, the RCSE
strives to become a centre of excellence in energy that will act as a
structure where world-standard R&D work can be performed, in terms
of measurable scientific production and/or technological innovation. The
RCSE is part of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cyprus
(UCY).
Contacts
Corinex Communications
Martin Kominek, +421910961176
martin.kominek@corinex.com
University of Cyprus
G. E. Georghiou, +35722892272
geg@ucy.ac.cy
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