A smart house is a home that is highly automated. When you come home from a working day it opens the front door and greets you by turning on the lights. In the kitchen your fridge informs you that you are missing a few ingredients from the recipe for tonight's dinner. It waters your plants and feeds your pets, while you're having holidays. Without you even knowing it, your dishwasher has detected an internal technical fault and has automatically requested maintenance assistance from its manufacturer. Some smart houses can even have ultra-low energy consumption - these homes are called passive houses.

You'll have lessons where you'll learn practical and useful information about this topic, furthermore we''ll also organize a few interesting company visits, to give you an idea of what is being done on the field of smart and passive housing. You will get more information about that later on.

 

There will be lectures and some practical lab work held by our proffessors:

• Simon Dobrišek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana

• Mark Umberger, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana

• Janez Štrancar, "JoŽef Štefan" Institute

 

 

and companies: