Paper Info
Title
Home energy management as a service over networking platforms
Abstract
About 40% of the U.S. primary energy is consumed in the buildings. Therefore, to manage the energy consumption and its usages pattern, for instance, the U.S. state of California mandated Zero Net Energy buildings by 2020 for the residential sector (22% of the U.S. primary energy). Moreover, towards this goal, U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office is trying to develop techniques to improve the efficiency of buildings. Home Energy Management (HEM) may be used to improve the energy consumption in the residential buildings. However, the cost, scalability, and flexibility of the software and hardware architectures available, have increased the time-to-market and have made HEMs hard to penetrate the consumer market. To solve these limitations, in this paper, we have presented a novel HEM platform, which utilizes a low power IEEE 802.15.4 standard to monitor and control all the appliances in a house. Moreover, it utilizes Service-Oriented Architecture and Devices Profile for Web Services to implement the monitoring and controlling algorithms and therefore may significantly improve the scalability and flexibility of the platform. Also, some other features like: plug-n-play capability, remote access feature, and open source architecture are implemented in this platform. Finally, a table-top prototype of the HEM platform is demonstrated in the paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISGT.2015.7131788
2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Home energy automation,Energy management,Software as a service,Control as a Service
Devices Profile for Web Services,Primary energy,Energy management,Architecture,Software,Zero-energy building,Engineering,Energy consumption,Scalability,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Korosh Vatanparvar113416.20
Quan Chau240.46
Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque362765.35