Upcoming events

The SENSYS 2025 workshop is set against the backdrop of the rapidly evolving landscape of smart energy systems. As the global demand for clean and efficient energy solutions intensifies, particularly in urban environments, the role of advanced decision and control techniques becomes increasingly important. These techniques are essential not only for optimizing energy use, but also for ensuring the sustainability of our energy infrastructures.

Smart grids and smart cities represent the backbone of this transformation. The workshop will explore the interplay between these systems and the advanced methodologies that drive their efficiency and sustainability. Topics such as distributed and decentralized control, wide-area monitoring, and intelligent control in power grids will be central to the discussions. Moreover, the flexibility of virtual power plants, energy market design based on game theory, and transactive control will also be key focus areas, highlighting the innovative approaches needed to manage modern energy systems.

The workshop will emphasize the importance of fault detection, supervision, and safety measures to maintain reliable energy systems. Participants will have the opportunity of examining the modeling and control of prosumer resources, the smart design and control of energy storage systems, and the role of artificial intelligence in control systems. Non-linear dynamic modeling, multi-objective optimization, and uncertainty management will be explored as critical tools for effective decision-making in energy management.

The integration of agent-based and participatory modeling will be discussed, stressing the significance of stakeholder involvement in developing sustainable energy solutions. Practical applications will span across various domains, including smart grids, districts, buildings, community-based energy systems, green hydrogen integration, and the electrification of transport and mobility.

Finally, the workshop will address the role of real-time monitoring and control in industrial processes and the synergistic relationship between automation, systems engineering, and sustainable development. An open invited session will focus on the modeling and control of environmental systems, highlighting the intersection between smart energy systems and natural resource management. Through these discussions, the workshop aims to foster innovation, collaboration, and the development of cutting-edge solutions that will shape the future of smart energy systems globally.

Water resources systems are built and managed to support irrigation, ecosystems, drinking water, transport, local communities, and social amenities and will face substantial challenges in the future due to demographic growth, climate and social change resulting in sea level rise, more intense precipitation events, consequent augmented risk of flooding and increased demand for water resources for the agricultural and drinking sector. In addition, sewerage systems have to be taken into account from the point of view of the quantity and quality of water resources and the challenging reuse of water. On the other hand, water resources systems, in particular urban water networks, are becoming increasingly sensed and interconnected revealing new potential for efficient management of this resource. Therefore, evaluation of opportunities and constraints around the management of water resources systems requires an integrated systems approach that takes into account the fundamental drivers, impacts, and multi-purpose nature of the system of interest. These systems are hugely complex: they are nonlinear, affected by long-term dependencies and extreme events, providing services to stakeholders with competing interests. Engineers and researchers working in multidisciplinary fields that include control theory may find many challenges here. As social and environmental conditions will change in the future, also affecting the proper functioning of systems of crucial interest to society, adaptive and robust management techniques are needed to properly manage those systems in the future, also considering health and inequality issues, especially in countries where those are relevant.