A competitive model for apartment complexes energy management with the aim of creating the infrastructure of smart city

Abstract

This paper presents a competitive model for energy managment at the residential complexes in a city.This model includes cultural patterns and technical models together.The combination of culture and technology is improved energy managment at consumers side and decreased problems at utility side for energy supply. The consumer owned smart meter shared data with a control and monitoring center(CMC) through wire or wireless platform and on the other side, a data analyst application is enabled on the server and after analyzing and processing data received from the customers, the information are transmitted to a database(SQLite). A web application also uses the information stored in the database. The smart meters integrate different types of information coming from several electric or electronic devices present in buildings via ZigBee or WiFi platform.This information are shown to the building residents through graphical forms, tables and charts via web programming methods.

Urban planning in the era of big data and the smart eco-city

“…For big data, the most fundamental infrastructure is the Internet. Ghorbanpanah et al state that if one wants to build a smart city, one needs to have an accurate and complete infrastructure in that city, and every smart city system usually has the main components shown in Figure 1 3 . In this section, the research will studies the infrastructure of a smart city using the smart grid as an example.…”

“…Ghorbanpanah et al states that improving power reliability's is one of the important aspects of establishing a smart city infrastructure. A smart grid system requires information and communication technologies for connectivity by creating a layered system that includes various hardware, user applications, and good communication platforms such as WiFi or wired connections to achieve a smart grid system with following elements 3 .…”