Active House: Industrial demonstrator

Abstract

In this paper we present the Active House industrial demonstrator, exhibited at the ELFACK fair (May 2011), which demonstrates the role of home/building automation systems in energy management at home. Moreover, we introduce the Active House deployment architecture in the smart grid that provides the basis for the industrial demonstrator. We discuss the demonstrator as the proof-of-concept that allows us to evaluate the applicability of the architectural solution and validate whether the Active House architecture can provide the right starting point for integrating the Active House into the grid.