The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

SMARTGREENS 2022

Best Paper Award

Evaluation of Smart City Models: A Conceptual and Structural View
Leonard Walletzký, Odonchimeg Bayarsaikhan, Mouzhi Ge and Zuzana Schwarzová

Best Student Paper Award

Energy-Aware Deep Learning for Green Cyber-Physical Systems
Supadchaya Puangpontip and Rattikorn Hewett

SMARTGREENS 2021

Best Paper Award

An Artificial Neural Network-based Real Time DSS to Manage the Discharges of a Wastewater Treatment Plant and Reduce the Flooding Risk
Loris F. Termite, Emanuele Bonamente, Alberto Garinei, Daniele Bolpagni, Lorenzo Menculini, Marcello Marconi, Lorenzo Biondi, Andrea Chini and Massimo Crespi

Best Student Paper Award

An Automated Clustering Process for Helping Practitioners to Identify Similar EV Charging Patterns across Multiple Temporal Granularities
René Richard, Hung Cao and Monica Wachowicz

Best Poster Award

GREECOPE: Green Computing with Piezoelectric Effect
Meghana Kshirsagar, Rutuja Lahoti, Tanishq More and Conor Ryan

SMARTGREENS 2020

Best Paper Award

A Blockchain-based Privacy-friendly Renewable Energy Community
Stephan Cejka, Franz Zeilinger, Argjenta Veseli, Marie-Theres Holzleitner and Mark Stefan

Best Student Paper Award

Software-defined Wireless Sensor Network: WSN Virtualization and Network Re-orchestration
Indrajit S. Acharyya and Adnan Al-Anbuky

Best Poster Award

AI for Future Mobility: What Amount of Willingness to Change Does a Society Need?
Gesa Horn and Kathrin Schönefeld

SMARTGREENS 2019

Best Paper Award

Sizing of II-Life Batteries for Grid Support Applications and Economic Evaluations
Giuseppe Graber, Vito Calderaro, Vincenzo Galdi and Antonio Piccolo

Best Student Paper Award

Identifying the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for a Trust-Building CCU Product Label
Anika Linzenich, Katrin Arning and Martina Ziefle

Best Poster Award

Efficient Routing for Overlay Networks in a Smart Grid Context
Lasse Orda, Tue V. Jensen, Oliver Gehrke and Henrik W. Bindner

SMARTGREENS 2018

Best Paper Award

A Model Predictive Control based Peak Shaving Application for a Grid Connected Household with Photovoltaic and Battery Storage
Deepranjan Dongol, Thomas Feldmann and Elmar Bollin

Best Student Paper Award

Demand Response of Medical Freezers in a Business Park Microgrid
Rosa Morales González, Madeleine Gibescu, Sjef Cobben, Martijn Bongaerts, Marcel de Nes-Koedam and Wouter Vermeiden

Best Poster Award

High Performance and Privacy for Distributed Energy Management: Introducing PrivADE+ and PPPM
Daniel Brettschneider, Daniel Hölker and Ralf Tönjes

SMARTGREENS 2017

Best Paper Award

Optimal Scheduling of Heat Pumps for Power Peak Shaving and Customers Thermal Comfort
Jochen L. Cremer, Marco Pau, Ferdinanda Ponci and Antonello Monti

Best Student Paper Award

InterSCity: A Scalable Microservice-based Open Source Platform for Smart Cities
Arthur M. Del Esposte, Fabio Kon, Fabio M. Costa and Nelson Lago

Best Poster Award

Steps Towards Simulating Smart Cities and Smart Islands with a Shared Generic Framework - A Case Study of London and Reunion Island
Tahina Ralitera, Maxime Ferard, Gonzalo Bustos-Turu, Koen H. van Dam and Rémy Courdier

SMARTGREENS 2016

Best Paper Award

Orka: A New Technique to Profile the Energy Usage of Android Applications
Benjamin Westfield and Anandha Gopalan

Best Student Paper Award

Photovoltaic Integration in Smart City Power Distribution - A Probabilistic Photovoltaic Hosting Capacity Assessment based on Smart Metering Data
Vasiliki Klonari, Jean-François Toubeau, Jacques Lobry and Francois Vallee

Best Poster Award

JouleSense: A Simulation based Platform for Proactive Feedback on Building Occupants’ Energy Use
Georgios Lilis, Shubham Bansal and Maher Kayal

Best PhD Project Award

Multidimensional Relation of Urban Dwellers and Green Spaces
Gyula Kothencz

SMARTGREENS 2015

Best Paper Award

Optimization of Coil Parameters for a Nonlinear Two Degree-of-Freedom (2DOF) Velocity-amplified Electromagnetic Vibrational Energy Harvester
Elisabetta Boco, Valeria Nico, Declan O'Donoghue, Ronan Frizzell, Gerard Kelly and Jeff Punch

Best Student Paper Award

A Sensitivity Study of PMU-based Fault Detection on Smart Grid
Richard Barella, Duc Nguyen, Ryan Winter, Kuei-Ti Lu, Scott Wallace, Xinghui Zhao and Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

Best PhD Project Award

Spatio-temporal Modeling for Renewable Distributed Energy Generation Planning at the Municipal Scale
Luis Ramirez Camargo

SMARTGREENS 2014

Best Paper Award

In-Wall Thermoelectric Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks
Aristotelis Kollias and Ioanis Nikolaidis

Best Student Paper Award

Minimizing Environmental Footprints of Data Centers under Budget and Service Requirement Constraints
Waqaas Munawar, Jian-Jia Chen and Minming Li

SMARTGREENS 2013

Best Paper Award

Personalized Thermal Comfort Forecasting for Smart Buildings via Locally Weighted Regression with Adaptive Bandwidth
Carlo Manna, Nic Wilson and Kenneth N. Brown

Best Student Paper Award

Using Grid Related Cluster Schedule Resemblance for Energy Rescheduling - Goals and Concepts for Rescheduling of Clusters in Decentralized Energy Systems
Astrid Nieße and Michael Sonnenschein

SMARTGREENS 2012

Best Paper Award

ARCHITECTURE AND PRINCIPLES OF SMART GRIDS FOR DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION AND DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT
Yonghua Cheng

Best Student Paper Award

SMART GRIDS WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES: THE INITIAL FINDINGS OF PROJECT REIVE - A Project Funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Development
F. J. Soares, C. Gouveia, P. N. Pereira Barbeiro, P. M. Rocha Almeida, C. Moreira and J. A. Peças Lopes