The successful integration of renewable resources in the electric grid at high penetration levels – that is, sufficient to meet a 33% renewables portfolio standard for California – entails diverse technical and organizational challenges. These challenges are described here in terms of a coordination problem in time and space, balancing electric power on a range of scales from microseconds to decades, and from individual homes on distribution feeders to hundreds of miles.
UC Berkeley
The headquarters of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are located in Sutardja Dai Hall (SDH) on the UC Berkeley campus. Specially designed to house this interdisciplinary research institute, the building contains 141,000 sq. feet of laboratory space for collaborative research, faculty offices, the 149-seat Banatao Auditorium, conference rooms on each floor, and modern classrooms. SDH also hosts the CITRIS Invention Lab, a rapid prototyping space used by UC entrepreneurs in our CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program and the student maker community. The Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory occupies a two-story, 15,000-square-foot wing of Sutardja Dai Hall where academic and industry researchers develop prototypes for new biosensors, photonics devices, and other MEMS/NEMS sensors. SDH is equipped with hundreds of sensors and sophisticated systems for building management that form a living laboratory on campus for energy research and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
Workshop: Enabling Technologies Development Project
The goal is to develop new and innovative technologies that will lead to 10x the capabilities of current products at 1/10x the cost. An additional even more challenging goal is to also achieve 10x reliability. The intent of the project is to also promote research collaboration between the universities, national laboratories, and private industry.
i4Energy Seminar: Occupancy Data-Driven Models for Demand-Response HVAC Control in Smart Buildings
SETI combines state-of-the-art network technology with novel data processing algorithms in order to determine how people are distributed within a building. The ultimate goal of the seed-funded project is to model and accurately predict how buildings will be used in order to achieve significant energy savings.
Research Exchange: “Local Codes: Mapping and transforming a City’s Forgotten Public Space”
Using the latest digital mapping technologies, “Local Code” documents the location and character of 1,500 City-owned “remnant parcels” in San Francisco.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Parallel Computing Short Course at UC Berkeley
This three-day hands-on short course on Parallel Computing will have have added lectures on parallel debugging and verification techniques.
The Residential Load Monitoring Project
The Residential Load Monitoring Project aims to improve energy consumers’ knowledge of their consumption by…
Magnetically Actuated MEMS Power Conditioning Circuits for Energy Scavenging in SmartGrid Applications
Devices that will efficiently collect and store electrical energy.
TierStore
The goal of this project is to develop a storage management system to use in deploying distributed information-driven applications…
Multiple Mice to Enhance Learning
Metamouse attempts to bridge this divide by allowing multiple players to share existing content with multiple mice…
Tele-immersion for Physicians
UC Berkeley and UC Davis researchers work together to develop a real-time rendering algorithm for a tele-immersion program.
Collaborative Virtual Environments Portray Virtual Heritage
Scientists are developing a prototype application that allows archeologists from remote locations to interact in real time with 3D models.
Opinion Space: Crowdsourcing Insights at the U.S. State Department
Visitors can share their perspectives on U.S. foreign policy in an innovative visual “opinion map”.
The Electronic & Cultural Atlas
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a global consortium of people who share the vision of creating a distributed virtual library…
Serious Games: Gaming for Fragile X Syndrome
This project aims to design and research a low-cost intervention and assessment tool for the treatment of Fragile X Syndrome.
Floating Century: Putting Water Online
A project aiming to add “floating robots” to the delta and use wireless networks to obtain crucial information.
Deep Geo-Science & Information Technology
We want to develop a Hubble telescope into, not away from, the earth…
Sierra Snow Melt
Part of a team effort with the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory to study snowmelt phenomena using large-scale wireless sensor networks.
Mobile Millennium
The Mobile Millennium is a prototype traffic monitoring system that uses GPS information gathered from cell phones.
Diabetic Retinopathy & Primary Glaucoma Screening for Underserved Populations
The project goal is to develop effective, low-cost screening technologies for…
Mental Health Monitoring via Cell Phones
The goal of this project is to explore the design and implementation of a mental health monitor based on analyzing…
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
Applying pervasive computing and sensor technology to personal monitoring to limit exposure to hazardous environments and disease.
Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis (CellScope)
Researchers aim to impact global health with a device that combines optical microscopy and cellular communication to offer cell-phone microscopy.