Smart Home Energy Management System and How to Make It Cost Affordable

Abstract

In this paper the importance of Smart Home Energy Management Systems (SHEMS) within Distributed Renewable Energy is analyzed, the state of art of low cost domotic technologies is showed and an overview about how to develop a SHEMS based on described technologies are provided.Finally, an example of how to develop a basic typical function of a SHEMS, based on low cost domotics is described.