Smart Cities / Smart Buildings / Smart Grid
Mission
Our research addresses the growing demands of urban digital transformation by developing and testing intelligent infrastructures for smart cities, buildings, and energy systems. We support end-to-end experimentation in areas such as urban sensing, adaptive lighting, energy-efficient HVAC systems, occupancy-aware automation, and intelligent grid management. Our platforms enable the deployment of wireless sensor networks, edge computing nodes, and SDN-enabled infrastructure across real and emulated environments. This helps advance technologies that promote sustainability, resiliency, and real-time responsiveness in modern urban ecosystems.
projects
Summary: The OLIVE4ALL project is based on the idea of raising awareness of sustainable development in communities through the heritage of the olive tree, chosen for its representative quality in the Mediterranean identity and as a bearer of strong values and symbols. The aim of OLIVE4ALL was to approach the heritage and culture of the olive tree in a critical way, to connect stakeholders and to highlight the social value of the olive tree, through a holistic digital approach and a thorough scientific analysis, thus contributing to local development in the areas of interest and more broadly.
Project Timeline: 01/06/2021 – 30/06/2025
Funding Agency: JPI-CH (Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change)
Summary: This flagship initiative aims to develop a universal platform for Smart City management and to create a central reference point for Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. These ecosystems originate from research and development activities conducted by some of the country’s largest academic and research institutions in collaboration with its major municipalities, forming Greece’s innovation map in the field of Smart Cities.
The goal of this flagship action is to develop an interoperability platform, implemented and distributed across multiple levels, which will consolidate technologies and services from all existing vertical implementations currently in operation in Greece’s major cities—either those that have already expressed interest or those expected to do so during the project’s execution.
Through a wide range of integrated services that allow direct access to data from heterogeneous systems and visualization of all available information, the platform will enable the development of new, innovative, value-added services and products within the framework of the “Greece 2.0” program, specifically in the Smart Cities sector.
In this way, a cornerstone will be laid for the meaningful networking and faster utilization of existing infrastructure, facilitating the creation of complex products and services with the following objectives:
- The transfer and exploitation of existing know-how
- The creation of innovative applications and services
- The strengthening of entrepreneurship and competitiveness
- The promotion of participatory governance at the local level
- The encouragement of collaboration between academic / research institutions and industry
Project Timeline: 01/05/2023 – 30/08/2025
Funding Agency: GSRT (General Secretariat for Research and Innovation)