A Two Tier Architecture for Local Energy Market Simulation and Control

Abstract

This paper addresses energy management and security having as basis sensing and monitoring of cyber-physical infrastructure of consumers and prosumers, and their participation in the Local Energy Market (LEM). The vision is to create a layered multi-agent framework that brings a complete view of the cyber-physical system of LEM participants, and provides optimization and control of energy for said participants. The proposed system is separated into a Market layer and a Cyber-Physical layer, each of them providing dierent services. The cyber-physical layer, represented by SMARTERCtrol system, provides Data Monitoring and Optimized Energy Control of individual building resources. The Market layer, represented by LEM Multi-Agent System, provides Negotiation, Forecasting, and Trust Evaluation. Both systems work together to provide and integrate a tool for simulation and control of LEM.

Local energy markets - an IT-architecture design

“…The transition to local systems such as LEMs is fluid in the literature, and there are already first architecture approaches to integrate LEMs into the overall system. Often, layer or level models are described, which show the different levels and stakeholder groups (Zhang et al, 2018;Andrade et al, 2020). Other approaches show the interaction between the individual stakeholders (Mazzola et al, 2020) or in the interaction with the overall system (Zia et al, 2020;Budiman, 2018).…”