The core aim of RISEnergy lies in its efforts to establish a comprehensive network of research infrastructures, notably providing free access to academic and industry researchers seeking to strengthen their innovative capacities across ten renewable energy target areas. Given its wide technological reach, RISEnergy is the first research infrastructure project of this dimension in Europe.
To foster a deeper understanding of RISEnergy, the project is undertaking a short campaign to shed light on the importance of each renewable energy technology area, this time turning the focus to Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Building a resilient renewable energy system across Europe demands interconnected solutions to achieve the greatest impact. This is where ICT plays a crucial role, driving research and development by detecting problems and implementing predictive maintenance early on to avoid breakdowns and assure peak efficiency for renewable technologies. At the core of ICT-powered solutions are wireless sensors.
Ensuring wireless sensors on, in and near renewable energy systems allows for more reliable and efficient distribution using live data, while also enabling interoperability and performance optimisation. However, to be deployed at a large scale, wireless sensor devices need significantly longer battery life than is commercially available.
This is where RISEnergy comes in, facilitating free access to cutting-edge ICT-related research and development facilities to enable researchers to test wireless sensors in conditions similar to real-world ones, strengthening renewable energy systems in the process.
‘’The beauty of wireless sensors is that we can retrofit them on, or near, new and existing equipment. The battery life issue in many cases is resolvable by harvesting ambient energies to self-power the sensors and this is an integral part of our research activities,’’ – RISEnergy ICT Leader, Mike Hayes (Tyndall-UCC).
Discover more about how the project helps to connect researchers and infrastructure to strengthen ICT innovation in Europe here.
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