SMART GEMS

We are pleased to announce that “Elgama-Elektronika”  Ltd has successfully completed the “Smart Gems Management” project (hereinafter referred to as the “Smart Gems” project) implemented since September 2015. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grand agreement. The “Smart Gems” project was implemented on the basis of a consortium agreement, together with other electricity grid infrastructure companies and technological universities. Collaboration and staff exchange is pursued through a significant number of secondments from academic to industrial partners and vice versa. During secondments of “Smart Gems” the company employees   worked together with specialists from academic communities such as the Cyprus Institute, the Technical University of Crete, Brunel Universities in Calabria and London. The main objective of the project is to fully analyze all aspects of smart grids targeting in the improvement of reliability, mitigation of security risks, increase load shaping and energy efficiency, optimal integration and generation-consumption matching as well as smart monitoring and control. During the secondments, the company's employees carried out research related to the development, optimization, management and monitoring of smart grids, which will help to develop new reliable smart concept solutions.