[{"id":76,"title":"Time dependent and location dependent electric pricing using smart meters","sha":"e7c25fbcb21631386537103971afe74e","user_id":301,"state":"published","body":"Smart meters are increasingly deployed to electric endusers, with the prime goal of decreasing metering costs for the power companies.They can be set in a way that the momentary power usage is transmitted close to realtime.\r\nThe trading price of electric energy fluctuates with time, e.g. due to the volatile production of renewables, and demand curves of the net. For sunny and windy days, the price can even become negative http://www.epexspot.com/en/company-info/basics_of_the_power_market/negative_prices . From a holistic economic point of view, it makes sense for customers to adopt their energy usage to the current price on the market. However, this is hindered as endusers pay proportionally to their total consumption.\r\nUsing smartmeters, the volatile energy prices could be transparently used to bill the customers. They then can have web-enabled devices that based on the current electric price e.g. charge the electric vehicle or cool the fridge further than usually. Thereby, the electric price is stabilized, as demand is coupled to price.\r\nAdditionally, the price can depend on if power needs to be transmitted through the grid. \r\nUsing this measures, the usage of the transmission grid is minimized, and local production/consumption maximized, leading to cheaper and stable power and higher share of renewables.","created_at":"2015-02-20T10:17:37.586Z","updated_at":"2015-03-02T20:23:21.283Z","zenodo_id":23221,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15559","subject":null,"tags":["smart","grid","electric","market","renewable"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":561,"title":"Creativity, an Essential Condition for the Development of Smart and Age-friendly Cities and Communities","sha":"d6c9abed53385e0cac471dd89bc4d557","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"The creativity of older adults and the ageing population is an essential condition for the development of “smart and age-friendly cities and communities” (SAFCC). First of all, the creativity may be understood as (1) the acceptance and use of new technologies in a creative way or as (2) the ability to produce ideas, solutions, products, and services that are new and appropriate to the context. Creativity helps us adapt to the complexity of social life and to coping with uncertainty. Thus, SAFCC need to be characterized by the creative activity of citizens of all ages, openness to diversity and focus on bridging the digital divide and the robotics divide. The discussion needs to highlight, among others, basic findings from the Active Ageing Index and the Medium-sized Smart Cities Ranking conducted in the European Union. Moreover, selected observations about inequalities related to the creativity at the regional and local levels should be presented. The idea development needs to underline that such differences may have an influence on the current and future distribution and use of technological innovations and social innovations for ageing societies.","created_at":"2019-02-04T22:58:19.425Z","updated_at":"2019-10-24T17:48:57.996Z","zenodo_id":3236948,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3236948","subject":null,"tags":["age-friendly","cities","communities","smart","creativity","ageing","digital divide","robotics divide","composite indicators"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]