Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems

IF 3.8 2区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107607

Anjana M.S. , Patricia Lago , Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas , Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

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Abstract

Context:

India’s coal use for electricity jumped 13% in 2021–22. Energy management systems (EnMS) are seen as a solution, but only sustainable EnMS can have a discernable impact on the carbon footprint and the Return On Investment (ROI).

Objective:

Designing a software-intensive sustainable energy management system requires considering technical, environmental, social, and economic factors. This helps evaluate an EnMS’s overall impact and improve its design. We proposed EnSAF for efficient utilization of the energy incurred for the design of sustainability-aware EnMSs.

Method:

In this work, EnMSs in diverse use cases were selected and analyzed in terms of technical, social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainability in collaboration with various stakeholders. The set of application-specific design concerns and Quality Attributes (QAs) were addressed by the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) toolkit. The resultant SAF instances of each EnMS, derived through the analysis and discussion with the stakeholders, were then analyzed to advocate the DMs and SQ model for generic EnMSs.

Results:

This study demonstrated the following outcomes (i) technical concerns dominate the existing EnMSs (ii) integration of renewable energy resources reduces dependency to the main power grid and nurtures a sustainable environment by diminishing carbon footprint, and minimizing payback time, in the economic dimension; (iii) extant definitions of quality attributes need significant scrutiny and updates apropos of objectives of EnMSs

Conclusion:

The SAF toolkit was found to be deficient in the representation of relevant design concerns and quality attributes concomitant with sustainable EnMS. Prevailing DMs are inept to factor in stakeholder’s concerns, as the model is ill-equipped to account for spatio-temporal representation of QAs. Pursuant to the insights from the 4 SAF instances, a generic framework, EnSAF, is proposed to tackle the relevant concerns apropos of EnMS sustainability. This work proposed a representation of DMs in the SAF toolkit specifically for sustainability-aware EnMS.

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为可持续发展注入活力：EnSAF 用于可持续发展意识、软件密集型能源管理系统

背景：2021-22 年，印度的煤炭用电量猛增 13%。目标：设计软件密集型可持续能源管理系统需要考虑技术、环境、社会和经济因素。这有助于评估能源管理系统的整体影响并改进其设计。方法：在这项工作中，我们与各利益相关方合作，从可持续发展的技术、社会、环境和经济维度选择并分析了不同用例中的 EnMS。可持续性评估框架（SAF）工具包解决了一系列特定应用的设计问题和质量属性（QA）。通过分析和与利益相关者的讨论，得出了每个 EnMS 的 SAF 实例，然后对其进行分析，以倡导通用 EnMS 的 DM 和 SQ 模型。结果：这项研究显示了以下结果：（i）技术问题在现有的 EnMS 中占主导地位；（ii）可再生能源资源的整合减少了对主电网的依赖，并通过减少碳足迹和最大限度地缩短投资回收期，在经济层面上培育了可持续发展的环境；（iii）现有的质量属性定义需要仔细审查，并根据 EnMS 的目标进行更新。现行的 DM 无法将利益相关者的关切考虑在内，因为该模型不具备考虑质量保证的时空表现的能力。根据从 4 个 SAF 案例中获得的启示，我们提出了一个通用框架 EnSAF，以解决与 EnMS 可持续性相关的问题。这项工作在 SAF 工具包中提出了一种 DMs 表示法，专门用于具有可持续性意识的 EnMS。

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Information and Software Technology 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

9.6 weeks

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