A novel middleware for smart grid data exchange towards the energy efficiency in buildings

Martín, Susana; Hernandez, Jose; Valmaseda, Cesar

doi:10.1109/netsys.2015.7089063

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“…For example, in [82], the authors grouped the data based on explicit variables for further analysis; and in [83], the authors stated in their proposal that data must communicate correctly with the services. However, in [84], the authors used this layer as an intermediary between the data and the applications. FR3.…”

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Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings: A Systematic Review

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Currently, smart buildings generate large amounts of data due to the many devices and equipment available. Hence, buildings implement building management systems (BMSs), which monitor, control, manage and analyze each of these components. However, current BMSs are incapable of managing a massive amount of data (big data) and therefore cannot extract knowledge or make intelligent decisions in quasi real time. In addition, there are serious limitations to integrating BMSs with other services since they generally use proprietary software. In this sense, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that allows one to build distributed systems and provide functionalities such as services to end users or other types of services. Therefore, an SOA has the great advantage of allowing the expansion of the functionalities of BMSs. In fact, there are several studies that address SOAs for building management. However, we have not found any description or systematic analysis in the literature that allows the development of a versatile and interoperable SOA focused on the energy efficiency of buildings and that can integrate massive data analysis features. For these reasons, this study seeks to fill this knowledge gap and, more specifically, to identify and analyze the various software requirements proposed in the literature and the characteristics of big data that allow for improving the energy efficiency of buildings. To this end, we performed an in-depth review of the literature according to the methodology proposed by Kitchenham. As a result of this review, we provide researchers with a specific vision of the requirements and characteristics to consider for software development aimed at the energy efficiency of unique or historic buildings.

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“…Moreover, many solutions do not use standard communication protocols for smart grids. For instance, middlewares presented in [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ] do not communicate using any of the following smart-grid protocols: IEC 61850, DNP3, and Modbus. The systems and architectures presented in [ 36 , 37 ] communicate using only the IEC 61850 protocol.…”

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Infrastructure for Integration of Legacy Electrical Equipment into a Smart-Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Araújo

Filho

Rodrigues

et al. 2018

Sensors

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At present, the standardisation of electrical equipment communications is on the rise. In particular, manufacturers are releasing equipment for the smart grid endowed with communication protocols such as DNP3, IEC 61850, and MODBUS. However, there are legacy equipment operating in the electricity distribution network that cannot communicate using any of these protocols. Thus, we propose an infrastructure to allow the integration of legacy electrical equipment to smart grids by using wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this infrastructure, each legacy electrical device is connected to a sensor node, and the sink node runs a middleware that enables the integration of this device into a smart grid based on suitable communication protocols. This middleware performs tasks such as the translation of messages between the power substation control centre (PSCC) and electrical equipment in the smart grid. Moreover, the infrastructure satisfies certain requirements for communication between the electrical equipment and the PSCC, such as enhanced security, short response time, and automatic configuration. The paper’s contributions include a solution that enables electrical companies to integrate their legacy equipment into smart-grid networks relying on any of the above mentioned communication protocols. This integration will reduce the costs related to the modernisation of power substations.

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“…The main feature of the proposal presented by Martin et al [61] is that Smart Grid-based capabilities are used in the very specific context of energy efficiency in buildings. The latter are conceived as entities used to retrieve services (hence the name of the proposal) that become interconnected at the data level by means of a middleware layer bent on optimizing energy consumption levels.…”

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Middleware Architectures for the Smart Grid: A Survey on the State-of-the-Art, Taxonomy and Main Open Issues

Rodríguez‐Molina

Kammen

2018

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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The integration of small-scale renewable energy 1 sources in the smart grid depends on several challenges that must 2 be overcome. One of them is the presence of devices with very 3 different characteristics present in the grid or how they can inter-4 act among them in terms of interoperability and data sharing. 5 While this issue is usually solved by implementing a middle-6 ware layer among the available pieces of equipment in order to 7 hide any hardware heterogeneity and offer the application layer 8 a collection of homogenous resources to access lower levels, the 9 variety and differences among them make the definition of what 10 is needed in each particular case challenging. This paper offers 11 a description of the most prominent middleware architectures for 12 the smart grid and assesses the functionalities they have, consid-13 ering the performance and features expected from them in the 14 context of this application domain.

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A novel middleware for smart grid data exchange towards the energy efficiency in buildings

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings: A Systematic Review

Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings: A Systematic Review

Infrastructure for Integration of Legacy Electrical Equipment into a Smart-Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Middleware Architectures for the Smart Grid: A Survey on the State-of-the-Art, Taxonomy and Main Open Issues

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