Policy Brief – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems: key findings from four reports
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This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of four recent EMSA publications on digitalisation in electric motor systems.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part II: Technical recommendations for industrial end-users
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In this publication, EMSA provides recommendations for industrial end-users on how to digitalise their motor systems.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part I: Findings for policy makers
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This report summarises EMSA’s research on the digitalisation of electric motor systems between 2021 – 2024. It formulates nine recommendations for policy makers on how to advance digitalisation in motor systems.
Policy Brief – Policy Development on Energy Efficiency of Data Centres
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Provides an overview of initiatives for data centres; summarises the energy savings from potential measures and presents a range of issues for policy makers to consider.
Policy brief – Harnessing Smart and Dumb Devices
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This policy brief deals with harnessing energy benefits from the ‘internet of things’ and how to turn existing ‘dumb’ appliances into smart ones using retrofit solutions.
Policy Brief – Interoperability
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Policy brief pertaining to the issue of appliance ‘interoperability’ and the impact of this on demand flexibility
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part IV: Energy consumption due to the digitalisation of electric motor systems
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By analysing current research and real-life cases in industry, EMSA looked at the energy expenditure to facilitate digitalisation in electric motor systems.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part III: Catalogue of case studies
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EMSA presents eight concrete cases of companies who used digital solutions to optimise their processes, thereby saving energy.
Policy Brief – Energy Management Protocols
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Summarises the EDNA Guide to Energy Management Protocols, which is a resource for policy makers. Gives an overview, description and categorisation of protocols, their relevance to energy management, and details of market uptake.
Guide to Energy Management Protocols
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This report is a guide to ‘application layer’ communications protocols used for energy management, such as those used to facilitate intelligent efficiency and demand flexibility.
Standardisation for Smart Devices
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This report highlights the most relevant standards in areas such as measurement of energy consumption of smart devices, and communication protocols for smart devices.
Interoperability
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The objective of this study is to gain a better understanding on the issue of (a lack of) device interoperability and the resultant impact of this on Intelligent Efficiency and Demand Flexibility
Policy Brief – Digital technologies for motor systems
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This Policy Brief shows the key findings of the EMSA report Classification of digitalisation technologies for electric motor driven systems.
Classification of digitalisation technologies for electric motor driven systems
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This report by EMSA provides a classification of different digitalisation technologies applied for motor systems. The following technologies are analysed: sensors, Internet of Things, intelligent control, data analytics, real-time monitoring, artificial intelligence, digital twins, cloud based services, augmented reality, additive manufacturing, robotics, drones.
Policy Brief – Blockchain Energy Consumption
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This policy brief explains how blockchains work, their use for cryptocurrencies and resulting energy consumption
Policy Brief – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems
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This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of a global survey on digitalisation in motor systems.
Are We Getting the Best Out of Smart Home Technologies? The Role of Usability
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This joint report with the Users TCP investigates ‘usability’ issues associated with energy smart digital devices.
Policy Brief – Energy Applications within IoT and Digitalisation Strategies
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Provides guiding principles to policy makers for the development of digitalisation strategies that incorporate demand flexibility and intelligent efficiency applications as key objectives.
Policy Brief – Roadmap for Consumer Devices to Participate in Demand Flexibility
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This policy brief sets out a guide for the development of country roadmaps for consumer device demand flexibility.
Policy Brief – Policy Guidance for Energy Smart Digital Devices
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Provides policy guidance for encouraging the development of consumer devices which are capable of ‘energy smart digital functionality’