Adopting IoT framework for Energy Management of Smart Building: A real test-case

Abstract

The wide penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) is causing a progressive decrease of the quality of energy provided by Distribution Service Operator (DSO). The management of the DERs requires improvement in control of distribution grid, which can take the advantage of ICT technologies. In literature, the integration of communication infrastructure, distributed control and distribution grid is called Smart Grid (SG). However, an optimal grid management should take into account the behavior of the customers, which are playing a more and more active role in the distribution grid. An abstraction layer is required to simplify the management of each active customer. The Energy Management System (EMS) of Smart Building provides this abstraction layer, by means of which is possible to schedule energy consumption and generation. In the paper, the Internet of Thing (IoT) approach has been applied in the deployment of an Energy Management System (EMS), designed for monitoring and supervise the distribution grid of the campus of the University of Brescia. This approach is able to provide the required flexibility, since new services can be easily implemented over the deployed framework. Preliminary results are showing the integration of a meteorological station within the system with services suitable both for humans as well as machines interactions opening the opportunity of new, independent applications.