Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025
Harnessing IoT and Cloud Computing for Intelligent Buildings
1-2 December 2025, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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SDU BuildIQ Lab ↔ UNITEN Smart Building Living Lab

The Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025 is shaped by the methods and tools developed at the SDU BuildIQ Lab – SDU Smart Campus Living Lab and adapted and deployed at UNITEN’s Smart Building Living Lab. This “lab-to-lab” bridge gives participants a rare look at how an IoT-to-cloud pipeline scales across campuses and climates.

SDU BuildIQ Lab (Denmark)
Pioneers campus-scale digitalization of buildings using open stacks and reproducible workflows. Expect the same building blocks you’ll learn here: MQTT + Python for data acquisition, InfluxDB for time-series storage, and Grafana for analytics and dashboards — all aligned with energy efficiency, comfort, and operational insight.
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UNITEN Smart Building Living Lab (Malaysia)
Demonstrates the successful deployment across continents of the SDU BuildIQ approach, adapted to a different climate and campus context. Participants see how identical principles support scalable monitoring, anomaly detection, and data-driven decision support in practice.

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The Summer School bridges these two environments — giving participants a first-hand experience of the same data pipeline and analytic tools used by both living labs.
Working in UNITEN’s Advanced Learning Lab, which is equipped with real sensor installations and IoT gateways, you will replicate the key steps of intelligent-building digitalization:

Collecting live data through MQTT and Python from real sensors.
Storing and managing time-series data using InfluxDB.
Building interactive Grafana dashboards to analyze comfort and performance.
Developing data-driven insights for smarter building control and energy savings.

Beyond the technical training, the Summer School also offers a rare opportunity to meet and interact directly with the experts who operate both the SDU BuildIQ Lab and the UNITEN Smart Building Living Lab.

Participants interested in future collaboration, joint research, or knowledge transfer will have the chance to discuss ongoing and upcoming initiatives directly with the teams leading these infrastructures.

The program is open to students, researchers, and professionals who wish to enter the field of IoT and cloud computing for intelligent buildings — even those without prior experience.

Through structured exercises, expert guidance, and real data interaction, you will gain a strong foundation in how digitalization is transforming the built environment.

Join us at UNITEN to learn, build, and experience how data turns buildings into living systems for sustainability and innovation.

The summer school is organized in cooperation with Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2025 (EI.A 2025), 3-5 December 2025, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Seats are limited to ensure close interaction and mentoring.

👉 Register now to secure your place:

15 November 2025

Registration Deadline

Key Topics

Setting up IoT-enabled devices and sensors

Understand the essentials of deploying and configuring IoT devices for data acquisition.

Acquiring and ingesting data using modern communication protocols

Learn techniques to transfer data reliably using protocols like MQTT.

Storing and querying energy data in a time-series database

Utilize InfluxDB to store, manage, and query energy-related data effectively.

Creating dynamic dashboards to visualize energy trends

Build real-time visualizations and dashboards using Grafana for insightful data analysis.

Program Highlights

Expert-Led Lectures

Learn from domain experts in IoT, cloud computing, and intelligent buildings.

Hands-On Exercises

Practical sessions for implementing IoT pipelines, integrating data from diverse sources, leveraging cloud computing for scalable storage and processing, and visualizing real-world data

Case Studies

Analyze examples of IoT-enabled energy optimization in intelligent buildings using data from the UNITEN - IoT & AI Smart Building Living Lab.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025, participants will be able to:

Configure and deploy IoT-enabled devices and sensors for data collection in energy systems.

Utilize modern communication protocols, such as MQTT, to acquire and ingest energy data.

Implement and manage time-series databases (InfluxDB) for storing, querying, and analyzing energy data.

Design and create dynamic dashboards using Grafana to visualize trends, consumption patterns, and anomalies in energy data.

Develop an end-to-end IoT pipeline that integrates data from multiple sources and applies advanced visualization and analysis techniques.

Apply energy informatics principles to optimize building energy consumption and contribute to intelligent building systems.

Program Duration, Credits, Certification

The Summer School in Energy Informatics 2025 is a focused two-day program offering an intensive learning experience. With a scope of 2 ECTS credits, it is designed to enhance the academic and professional development of PhD researchers, master's students, and professionals in the energy sector.

Participants who successfully complete the program will be awarded a Certificate of Participation, recognizing their newly acquired expertise in IoT and cloud computing technologies for energy informatics.

Prerequisites

Participants should have the following prior knowledge and tools to fully benefit from the program:

Basic knowledge of energy systems.

Basic understanding of Python programming language.

Code editor or IDE

We provide best support for JetBrains products or VSCode

Registration and Admission Process

The Summer School has a limited capacity of participants to ensure a highly focused and interactive learning environment. Participants are required to submit a document outlining the following:

Research Background

A summary of your academic and/or professional experiences relevant to energy systems, IoT, cloud computing, or intelligent buildings.

Current Research/Professional Focus

A description of your current research projects or professional responsibilities related to the key topics of the Summer School.

Motivation for Participation

A statement detailing why you wish to attend the Summer School, how it aligns with their academic or professional goals, and how the program will enhance their knowledge or competence in energy informatics.