2014/06/12 by Dominik Egarter, Egarter, Dominik, Andrea Monacchi +5
Computer Science · Energy · Engineering · #Energy Efficiency and Management #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Green IT and Sustainability #Other Computer Science (cs.OH) #Smart Grid Energy Management #cs.OH
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1406.3252
arxiv created 2014/06/12 · openalex publication_date 2014/06/12 · arxiv updated 2014/06/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The progressive installation of renewable energy sources requires the coordination of energy consuming devices. At consumer level, this coordination can be done by a home energy management system (HEMS). Interoperability issues need to be solved among smart appliances as well as between smart and non-smart, i.e., legacy devices. We expect current standardization efforts to soon provide technologies to design smart appliances in order to cope with the current interoperability issues. Nevertheless, common electrical devices affect energy consumption significantly and therefore deserve consideration within energy management applications. This paper discusses the integration of smart and legacy devices into a generic system architecture and, subsequently, elaborates the requirements and components which are necessary to realize such an architecture including an application of load detection for the identification of running loads and their integration into existing HEM systems. We assess the feasibility of such an approach with a case study based on a measurement campaign on real households. We show how the information of detected appliances can be extracted in order to create device profiles allowing for their integration and management within a HEMS.