The edge-cloud and the "smart building" - "smart grid" continuum

Presentation on the 19th Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing (SummerSoc 2025 - https://www.summersoc.eu/) in Heraklion, Crete.In her talk Melanie focused on the need for energy demand flexibility to balance an electricity grid with a high share of renewables, and showed that buildings can and should be part of the solution. She explained how BlueBird is developing solutions to turn buildings into flexibility assets and how the flexibility of multiple buildings can be pooled so that they can participate in explicit demand response schemes. A video of her talk can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R98jF0LwLs&ab_channel=SummerSchoolonServiceOrientedComputing