Progetto e valutazione di una piattaforma sperimentale di Internet of Energy per veicoli elettrici

This dissertation deals with the development of a project concerning a demonstration in the scope of the Supply Chain 6 of the Internet of Energy (IoE) project: the Remote Monitoring Emulator, which bears my personal contribution in several sections. IoE is a project of international relevance, that means to establish an interoperability standard as regards the electric power production and utilization infrastructure, using Smart Space platforms. The future perspectives of IoE have to do with a platform for electrical power trade-of, the Smart Grid, whose energy is produced by decentralized renewable sources and whose services are exploited primarily according to the Internet of Things philosophy. The main consumers of this kind of smart technology will be Smart Houses (that is to say, buildings controlled by an autonomous system for electrical energy management that is interoperable with the Smart Grid) and Electric Mobility, that is a smart and automated management regarding movement and, overall, recharging of electrical vehicles. It is precisely in the latter case study that the project Remote Monitoring Emulator takes place. It consists in the development of a simulated platform for the management of an electrical vehicle recharging in a city. My personal contribution to this project lies in development and modeling of the simulation platform, of its counterpart in a mobile application and implementation of a city service prototype. This platform shall, ultimately, make up a demonstrator system exploiting the same device which a real user, inside his vehicle, would use. The main requirements that this platform shall satisfy will be interoperability, expandability and relevance to standards, as it needs to communicate with other development groups and to effectively respond to internal changes that can affect IoE.

Controllo ottico automatizzato di circuiti fotonici integrati: Progettazione, realizzazione e valutazione

In this report a new automated optical test for next generation of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is provided by the test-bed design and assessment. After a briefly analysis of critical problems of actual optical tests, the main test features are defined: automation and flexibility, relaxed alignment procedure, speed up of entire test and data reliability. After studying varied solutions, the test-bed components are defined to be lens array, photo-detector array, and software controller. Each device is studied and calibrated, the spatial resolution, and reliability against interference at the photo-detector array are studied. The software is programmed in order to manage both PIC input, and photo-detector array output as well as data analysis. The test is validated by analysing state-of-art 16 ports PIC: the waveguide location, current versus power, and time-spatial power distribution are measured as well as the optical continuity of an entire path of PIC. Complexity, alignment tolerance, time of measurement are also discussed.