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EnAware: A Comprehensive and Scalable Energy Management and Awareness Solution

Authors:
António Santos
Carlos Resende
Rui Marques
André Lima

Keywords: Energy Awareness; Energy Monitoring; Smart Grids; Domotics; Smart Homes.

Abstract:
The raising costs of energy and the increasing consumer awareness with regards to their ecological footprint poses new challenges to the industry. In a domestic context, consumers demand energy efficient products and solutions that can be seamlessly integrated and easy to use. The EnAware project, developed by Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, EFACEC, EFAPEL and Bosch Termotecnologia, addresses these challenges by developing an ecosystem of interconnected smart devices. This ecosystem is composed of a smart energy meter, several smart devices and a home server. The household power meter and the home server communicate via the ModBus protocol over Power Line communication (PLC). Examples of the smart devices are smart sockets, smart switches or heat pumps. The devices communicate with the home ZigBee wireless network using the Home automation profile, which guarantees the smooth integration of third party products into the environment. The core of the EnAware system is the home server, which orchestrates the different devices and provides the user interface. The main differentiating factors of this solution are a set of features focusing on raising awareness on energy consumption and the scalability provided by having the service running on an OSGi platform.

Pages: 19 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: April 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-412X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-332-2

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014