The Internet of Things will transform business and industry in every sphere of activity, from connected cities to intelligent manufacturing and smart agriculture. Sparked by the dramatically reduced cost of sensors and devices, combined with new use cases, IoT will enable processes to be monitored, measured, controlled and optimized as never before. ThingPark Benelux is the leader in IoT infrastructure in Belgium and the Netherlands, with 2 national networks in operation, and hundreds of use cases.

NL-NVP is the leading aggregator of emergency power in the Netherlands. The company enables distributed producers of electricity to deliver power to the national grid, as well as consumers to reduce electricity offtake when the grid faces a large imbalance.

-Research under supervision of Professor Benjamin F. Hobbs (The Johns Hopkins University)-Modeling demand response in long-term investment planning for energy systems with large-scale renewables deployment-Modeling demand response in short-term unit commitment models