Publications

A list of my papers, conference contributions and reports. See also my profiles on Google Scholar, ORCID and ResearchGate.

2026

  • J. Essers, R. Herman, E. Niehs, B. Engel: Redistribution of Reactive Power Demand from Q(V) for Operating Point Optimization Integrated on HEMS Using Smart Meter Data. 21st International Conference on Harmonics & Quality of Power (ICHQP 2026), Dresden, Germany.
  • H. Wagner, C. Wegkamp, C. von Lützow, M. Lüdecke, M. Meinert, E. Niehs, F. Oestereich, J. Essers, L. Ebbert, B. Engel: Extending eELib: Enhancing the Open-Source Model Library for Prosumer Power Systems and Energy Management Strategies. Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2026), Karlsruhe, Germany. doi:10.1109/OSMSES69376.2026.11457194
  • E. Niehs, J. Essers, B. Engel: Netzzustandsüberwachung in Smart Grids: Analyse des Datenverbrauchs intelligenter Messsysteme. 19. Symposium Energieinnovation (EnInnov 2026), Graz, Austria. PDF
  • F. Oestereich, C. Wegkamp, E. Niehs, H. Wagner, B. Engel: Bewertung der netztechnischen Auswirkungen von Wärmepumpen in der urbanen, kommunalen Wärmeversorgung. 19. Symposium Energieinnovation (EnInnov 2026), Graz, Austria. PDF
  • R. Frank, R. Giebel, M. Göbel, E. Simon, O. Lütker, P. Heuell, E. Niehs, J. Essers, B. Engel, C. Kübler, Y. Ennulat, M. Grandel: Kundenorientiertes Energiemanagement mit autonomer Lastregelung – KEMAL. Schlussbericht zum Förderprojekt. Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Hannover. doi:10.34657/24796

2025

  • E. Niehs, J. Essers, J. Rothert, B. Engel: Peer-to-Peer Communication Using Enhanced German Smart Meter Gateway Infrastructure. ACM SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review 4(4), 249–251. doi:10.1145/3717413.3717438
  • J. Essers, J. Grundkötter, K. Preißner, E. Niehs, B. Engel: Continuous Battery Efficiency Estimation Algorithms for Home Energy Management Systems: A Simulation and Laboratory Validation Study. 6th International Conference on Communications, Information, Electronic and Energy Systems (CIEES 2025). doi:10.1109/CIEES66347.2025.11300253
  • M. Grandel, C. Kübler, Y. Ennulat, J. Fu, E. Niehs, J. Essers, B. Engel: Separate Billing at Private EV Charging Points Through an Advanced Smart Meter Infrastructure: From Technical Realisation to Practical Use Cases. 9th E-Mobility Power System Integration Symposium (EMOB 2025). doi:10.1049/icp.2025.4142
  • M. Grandel, C. Kübler, J. Fu, Y. Ennulat, J. Essers, E. Niehs: Event-driven Tariffs and Enhanced Smart Meter Infrastructure – A Use Case for Flexibility in Energy Communities in Multi-Apartment Buildings in Germany. 5th International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET 2025). doi:10.1109/ICECET63943.2025.11472370

2024

  • J. Essers, E. Niehs, B. Engel: Evaluating Energy Management: A Comparative Analysis of Smart Meter Versus State-of-the-art Measurement Devices. 5th International Conference on Communications, Information, Electronic and Energy Systems (CIEES 2024). doi:10.1109/CIEES62939.2024.10811353
  • E. Niehs, J. Essers, J. Rothert, B. Engel: Implementing Prosumer-to-Prosumer Communication in the German Smart Meter Infrastructure. 23rd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop (WIW 2024), IET Conference Proceedings CP891, 981–987. doi:10.1049/icp.2024.3903
  • J. Essers, E. Niehs, B. Engel: Optimization of Prosumer Household with Solar, Battery and Electric Vehicle: Enhancing Residential Energy Management Considering Non-Constant Efficiency. 23rd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop (WIW 2024), IET Conference Proceedings CP891, 752–757. doi:10.1049/icp.2024.3872
  • J. Essers, E. Niehs, B. Engel: Impact of Smart Metering on Home Energy Management: A Comparison to State-of-the-Art Power Sensors. Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems (NEIS 2024), Hamburg, Germany. VDE Verlag
  • C. Wegkamp, H. Wagner, E. Niehs, J. Essers, M. Lüdecke, M. Hadlak, B. Engel: eELib: Open-Source Model Library for Prosumer Power Systems and Energy Management Strategies. Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2024), Vienna, Austria. doi:10.1109/OSMSES62085.2024.10668964
  • C. Kübler, J. Essers, E. Niehs, B. Engel, M. Grandel: Ereignisvariable Tarife zur Lastverschiebung von steuerbaren Verbrauchseinrichtungen im Prosumer-Haushalt. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 61(4), 958–990. doi:10.1365/s40702-024-01084-1
  • S. P. Fekete, P. Keldenich, D. Krupke, E. Niehs: Edge Sparsification for Geometric Tour Problems. Computing in Geometry and Topology 3(1), 1–23. doi:10.57717/cgt.v3i1.20

2023

  • C. Kübler, E. Niehs, M. Grandel, B. Engel: Smart EV Charging with Event Driven Tariffs in the German Smart Meter Infrastructure. 7th E-Mobility Power System Integration Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, IET Conference Proceedings CP845, 67–74. doi:10.1049/icp.2023.2687
  • M. Grandel, C. Kübler, E. Niehs, V. Wachenfeld, B. Engel: Prioritized EV Charging – Enhanced Smart Meter Gateway Infrastructure Enabling an Event Driven Flexibility Tariff. Conference on Sustainable Energy Supply and Energy Storage Systems (NEIS 2023), Hamburg, Germany. doi:10.37307/b.978-3-503-23849-1.17

2022

  • S. P. Fekete, E. Niehs, C. Scheffer, A. Schmidt: Connected Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Cellular Structures by Finite-Memory Robots. Algorithmica 84(10), 2954–2986. doi:10.1007/s00453-022-00995-z

2020

  • S. P. Fekete, E. Niehs, C. Scheffer, A. Schmidt: Connected Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Cellular Structures by Finite-Memory Robots. Algorithms for Sensor Systems (ALGOSENSORS 2020). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62401-9_5
  • E. Niehs, A. Schmidt, C. Scheffer, D. E. Biediger, M. Yannuzzi, B. Jenett et al.: Recognition and Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Cellular Structures by Simple Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020). doi:10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196700
  • E. Niehs, A. Schmidt, C. Scheffer, D. E. Biediger, M. Yannuzzi, B. Jenett et al.: Recognition and Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Cellular Structures by Simple Robots. 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2020). PDF · Talk on YouTube
  • S. P. Fekete, A. Haas, Y. Lieder, E. Niehs, M. Perk, V. Sack, C. Scheffer: On Hard Instances of the Minimum-Weight Triangulation Problem. 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2020). PDF
  • A. Abdel-Rahman, A. T. Becker, D. E. Biediger, K. C. Cheung, S. P. Fekete, N. A. Gershenfeld, S. Hugo, B. Jenett, P. Keldenich, E. Niehs, C. Rieck, A. Schmidt, C. Scheffer, M. Yannuzzi: Space Ants: Constructing and Reconfiguring Large-Scale Structures with Finite Automata (Media Exposition). 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020), LIPIcs 164, 73:1–73:6. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.73

2019

  • S. P. Fekete, E. Niehs, C. Scheffer, A. Schmidt: Connected Assembly and Reconfiguration by Finite Automata. arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03880.