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Reduction of Electricity Consumption and Peak Electricity Demand in Home Environments

Authors:
Ana Rosselló-Busquet
José Soler
Lars Dittmann

Keywords: Smart Grid, Home Energy Management, Home Gateway, Demand Response (DR), Demand Peaks

Abstract:
There is an increase need to become more energy efficient and to reduce peak electricity demands to move towards the so called Smart Grid. In order to succeed, Home Energy Management Systems need to be developed to seamlessly provide the users with the tools to control the household electricity consumption. The Home Energy Management System developed includes a Home Gateway that provides rules to reduce the household consumption and a scheduling algorithm to reduce the peak demands. In addition, web services are used to provide remote access, communicate with the Smart Meter and the Energy Rules Server. Users will be able to donwload/update rules to reduce the electricity consumption and configure their Home Energy Management System remotely by using the JAVA based pilot-application developed. In this article the Home Energy Management System and its components are presented. The results of the energy management system based on rules and results of the scheduling algorithm are also provided.

Pages: 78 to 83

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4340

ISBN: 978-1-61208-300-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013