Smart Energy Manager for Energy Efficient Buildings

Abstract

In recent years, advances in wireless communications, microelectronics and sensing technology have allowed a production of computationally capable low-cost miniature devices that can be used in different innovative solutions. Due to constant increase of energy consumption, and since residential sector has been identified as one the most energy demanding, there exists a strong interest in exploitation of connected smart devices with the aim of improving energy efficiency, user comfort and the overall quality of life. The Smart Energy Manager based on an IoT platform which will be presented in this paper aims to reach the aforementioned goals with the combination of monitoring and control devices with the advanced energy services capable of analyzing the collected data and providing control actions and suggestions aimed at the end users via intuitive end-user applications.