The main aim of this project was to develop a holistic platform that integrates smart microgrids and renewable energy production/storage towards energy efficient buildings. Three major research issues were addressed in order to archive the project’s objectives: i) Renewable energy integration and DR(Demand/Response) variance tracking, ii) Context-awareness and data gathering/processing, and iii) ICT for connecting/networking the different components. Promoting Smart […]
Reducing energy consumption and subsequently CO2 emissions is necessary in key sectors of the economy such as energy, buildings and construction, in the public sector, in cities and urban areas. Three major aspects can be considered for reducing energy consumption : i) self-production of renewable energy, ii) reducing energy consumption by ICT infrastructure and by developing less-energy-consuming methods and protocols […]
The team has participated to the Solar Decathlon Africa (SDA) 2019, which was held in Ben Guerir from 21st August to 27th September 2019, together with other members from the International University of Rabat (UIR), the Technische Hochschule Lübeck (THL) and a consortium of academic of Dakar. The team, named AFRIKATATERRE, has designed, constructed and deployed a smart and energy […]
Morocco has been leading an ambitious sustainable development strategy for the past decade, particularly in the energy sector. This ambition is manifested by the deployment of renewable energy infrastructures, and recently the electric vehicles charging stations and open and shared data communication, favorable factors to support research actions in the field of connected electromobility. In this context, PSA Peugeot Citroën […]
The main idea behind this project was to develop a smart building energy management system using IoT and Big Data technologies. More precisely, we aimed to develop a holistic platform for big data streams acquisition and processing using real-time machine learning algorithms. The platform services were developed and used for efficient optimization of energy consumption according to actual and predicted […]
Recent advances in pervasive technologies, such as wireless ad hoc networks and wearable sensor devices, allow the connection of everyday things to the Internet, commonly denoted as IoT (Internet of Things). IoT together with Big data technologies are seen as enablers to the development of intelligent and context-aware services and applications, e.g., healthcare, agriculture, and industrial systems. However, despite the […]
Mr Youssef Naitmalek defended his PhD thesis entitled “Contribution toward a Smart EMS Using IoT and Machine Learning for Electric Vehicles”. The defense was held at the ENSIAS (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes) on Saturday 25 March 2023. Youssef thesis work was conducted between UIR and ENSIAS under the supervision of M. Essaaidi (ENSIAS), M. Najib (UIR) and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Youssef has spent […]
Mr Anas Lahlou defended, on Friday 6th November 2020, his PhD thesis “Energy and Thermal Comfort Management Strategies for Battery Electric Vehicles” at the Sorbonne University (SU). Anas’s thesis work was conducted between UIR, SU, EMI and PSA under the supervision of Mrs Ossart (SU), M. Maaroufi (EMI), M. Roy (PSA) and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Anas has spent 3 years and half (2017-2020) working on […]
Mrs Sarah Hadri defended, on the 7th December 2024 at 10am (UIT), her PhD thesis entitled “Contributions to load forecast in Smart buildings ”. Sarah’s thesis work was conducted, in the frame of the two projets MIGRID and HOLSYS, under the supervision of M. Najib (UIR), M. Bakhouya (UIR) and Y. Fakhri (UIT). She was first working on the project […]