Publications by Marina Dorokhova

Real-World Implementation of an ICT-Based Platform to Promote Energy Efficiency

The energy efficiency requirements of most energy-consuming sectors have increased recently in response to climate change. For buildings, this means targeting both facility managers and building users with the aim of identifying potential energy savings an ...

2021

Routing of Electric Vehicles With Intermediary Charging Stations: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

In the past few years, the importance of electric mobility has increased in response to growing concerns about climate change. However, limited cruising range and sparse charging infrastructure could restrain a massive deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) ...

2021

FEEdBACk: An ICT-Based Platform to Increase Energy Efficiency through Buildings’ Consumer Engagement

Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

Energy efficiency in buildings can be enhanced by several actions: encouraging users to comprehend and then adopt more energy-efficient behaviors; aiding building managers in maximizing energy savings; and using automation to optimize energy consumption, g ...

2021

The digitalization of energy systems: towards higher energy efficiency

Marina Dorokhova

The energy industry is going through challenging times of disruptive changes caused by decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. As the energy value chain is restructuring itself to accommodate the growing penetration of renewables, increasing ...

EPFL2021

Deep reinforcement learning control of electric vehicle charging in the presence of photovoltaic generation

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

In recent years, the importance of electric mobility has increased in response to climate change. The fast-growing deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) worldwide is expected to decrease transportation-related emissions, facilitate the integration of renew ...

2021

A Blockchain-Supported Framework for Charging Management of Electric Vehicles

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

Profound changes driven by decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization are disrupting the energy industry, bringing new challenges to its key stakeholders. In the attempt to address the climate change issue, increasing penetration of renewables a ...

MDPI2021

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools

Marina Dorokhova

Due to end-users’ habit being one of the prominent factors influencing building performance, changing user behavior to encourage energy efficient habits has tremendous potential to facilitate energy savings. Four ongoing European projects, eTeacher, FEEdBA ...

2020

Rule-based scheduling of air conditioning using occupancy forecasting

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems represent considerable potential for energy savings, which can be realized through intelligent occupancy-centered control strategies. In this work, both supervised and unsupervised algorithms to forecast oc ...

2020

Unsupervised algorithm for disaggregating low-sampling-rate electricity consumption of households

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Marina Dorokhova

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has been extensively researched over the last decade. The objective of NILM is to identify the power consumption of individual appliances and to detect when particular devices are on or off from measuring the power cons ...

2019