Campina Grande

Introduction

Managing and reducing energy consumption have became important issues in the last decades; not only saves money but also helps in mitigating climate change. The primary objective of energy management is to achieve and maintain optimum energy procurement and utilisation, throughout all the branches of the organisation in order to minimizing energy costs and mitigating environmental effects. It´s undoubtly an ultimate solution for direct and immediate reduction of energy consumption.

Partner University

UFPB

Federal University of Paraíba is located in Paraíba state, Northeast of Brazil. It is geographically distributed in various cities along the state into various Campi, as folllows:

UFCG

Federal University of Campina Grande is located in Paraíba state, Northeast of Brazil. It is geographically distributed in various cities along the state into various Campi, as folllows:

Association with UFCG

The SCIKE/UFPB team is composed by professors of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments of the UFPB, as well as undergraduate and graduate students from these departments and engineers and technicians from the Maintenance Group and Information Technology Unity (TI) .

The UFCG - the Federal University of Campina Grande, has originally joined the Scike Project in Paraíba State; its Electric Engineering Department - DEE is responsible for the development of some of the main parts of the whole Project, as the low-cost high efficiency electric sensor. Now UFPB joined UFCG to stablish the SCIKE-PB. Together, these prestigious universities will employ efforts in order to share in the near future, the beneficts it is expected from an inteligent and rational energy management.

João Pessoa