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-tomarket 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.Index Terms-Home energy automation, Energy management, Software as a service, Control as a Service.

On the Meta-Analysis Review Towards efficient mechanisms for resource, energy, and data management in the fog computing

“…An energy management strategy as a service on the fog computing was proposed by Vatanparvar et al (2015). They stated that the flexibility, connectivity, data secrecy, and realtime features required for energy management are authorized by performing fog computing statement.…”

“…Then, that data is removed from the storage media [46,[57][58][59][60]. In a heterogeneous ambiance, resource management functions typically have various execution time and energy utilization characteristics when performed on different devices.…”

A comprehensive study on managing strategies in the fog environments

“…FC expends the paradigm of CC to the edge of the network, which also may support IoT with the ability to precompute the data in eliminating the low inactivity, which is useful in energy management systems. 31,32 Therefore, controlling power generation and consumption is possible by energy management. The first step in this section is to discuss the selected energy management strategies in the FC and describe their main features.…”

“…The first step in this section is to discuss the selected energy management strategies in the FC and describe their main features. An energy management strategy as a service on the FC has been proposed by Vatanparvar et al 32 They have stated that the flexibility, connectivity, data secrecy, and real-time features needed for energy managing have been authorized by performing FC statement. The user can control the energy management policy by providing open-source hardware/software.…”

Energy management as a service over fog computing platform

“…This new paradigm is called Cyber-Physical Energy System (CPES), where the demand side of the power grid, may comprise of multiple distributed generators, energy storage, and loads [2]. Moreover, various sophisticated cyber-physical energy management systems need to be implemented in order to efficiently monitor and manage the loads [3] in a CPES. Energy management system may be implemented for any type of buildings and microgrids 1 , e.g.…”