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Integrating Portable Micro-CHP into a Smart Grid

Authors:
Richard Pump
Arne Koschel
Volker Ahlers

Keywords: Smart Grid; pmCHP; microservices; service-orientation; layered architecture; CEP; scenario-based evaluation

Abstract:
We present an architecture to integrate a portable micro combined heat-and-power (pmCHP) unit into a smart energy grid. The pmCHP is a gateway technology to bridge conventional vehicles battery electric vehicles, increasing range and comfort. Furthermore, pmCHP are to be used in the house within a connected smart energy grid. A software system is required to drive the pmCHP operation within building and vehicle. The System needs to be highly adaptable to accommodate the high amount of changes a novel device will undergo as it is introduced into a real world scenario. To find the best architecture, we design three different architectures using different architectural styles and evaluate them based on five categories of software quality. We conclude that a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using microservices provides a higher quality solution than a layered or Event-Driven Complex-Event-Processing (ED-CEP) approach. Future work will include implementation and simulation-driven evaluation.

Pages: 315 to 328

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2018

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-261x