Let’s introduce PUPIN, part of InBetween Project Consortium!
Marko Batic
How did you come to know about the opportunity to join InBetween Project’s Consortium?
PUPIN was one of the core partners working on the proposal preparation and consortium assembling, where we
primarily leveraged our acquaintances from previous EU research projects.
Why did you decide to join InBetween project’s consortium?
I believed that we could contribute to the project with our previous experience and know-how in ICT
enabled automation and energy management and, gain new knowledge through international cooperation and
technology demonstration at European level.
Is it the first time that you are working for a H2020 research project? If no, was your previous
experience useful for the development of InBetween? How?
No, I have been inovlved in EU research projects since 2010. Indeed, working on EU research projects was
essential to developing products and services which could be exploited not only commercially but also for
further research. In particular, previoulsy developed ICT solutions for managamanet of hybrid energy
systems served as basis for devleopment of InBetween advance energy services while our previous IoT
experience paved the way for the InBetween cloud based infrastructure.
What do you like the most about the fact of being part of an international partnership?
Primarily, this implies a possibility to learn and work together with Europe’s top institutions and thus
build our own capacity and expertise from their excellence. Moreover, the diversity among the involved
nations and cultures and their approach to research and development activities bring an out-of-the box way
of thinking for the entire consortium.
Concerning InBetween, what’s your main role in the project?
PUPIN is technical coordinator of the project and I am personally coordinating its activities. From the
development perspective, my team have perhaps the most interesting responsibility of designing and
developing majority of InBetween advance energy services. However, this great honor comes with the great
responsibility and expectations that we will be able to meet the project’s ambitious targets.
Concerning the project’s impacts, what’s your main role? What are you doing to assure energy savings/
what are you doing to assure energy behavioral change?
Being involved in design and development of InBetween advance energy services puts me and my team in the
focus of reaching project’s impacts and objectives. In terms of reaching energy savings and inducing
behavioral change, we have defined the three main use cases for the InBetween platform and initiated the
development of the corresponding services:
1. Reduction of energy wastes – by detecting wasteful practices through cross-correlation of information
about operating heating/cooling systems and lighting devices with ambient and occupancy sensing.
2. Optimal energy infrastructure operation – by optimally satisfying requested energy demand based on
information about available energy assets and dynamic energy pricing context, forecast of local generation
etc.
3. Evaluate performance and benchmark – by periodically assessing energy performance and raising awareness
through benchmarking with similar/neighbouring end users.
