{"title":"Relational or Non-Relational?: A Comparative Evaluation of Database Solutions for Energy Consumption Data","authors":"Ambreen Zaina, A. Reinhardt, Jana Huchtkoetter","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3212067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3212067","url":null,"abstract":"The significance of energy consumption analysis has been growing almost exponentially over the course of the last decade. In order to get analysis results of high accuracy, many algorithms require large volumes of available input data. Different kinds of databases are available today and offer a common interface to store and retrieve such time series data. Relational databases, such as MySQL, are well-established solutions for the storage of key-value pairs (e.g., timestamp of collection and sampled value). However, the constant growth of consumption data poses a serious challenge for the scalability of relational databases, and has led to the emergence of non-relational (NoSQL) database solutions. In this work, we compare a relational and a non-relational database with regard to their performance when used to store energy consumption time series. The insights gained shall serve as a recommendation for the informed database choice for energy data.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131815600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usability of IT-Security in Smart Grids","authors":"A. D. Patil, H. Meer","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3212036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3212036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124410248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinayak Sharma, Umit Cali, V. Hagenmeyer, R. Mikut, J. Á. G. Ordiano
{"title":"Numerical Weather Prediction Data Free Solar Power Forecasting with Neural Networks","authors":"Vinayak Sharma, Umit Cali, V. Hagenmeyer, R. Mikut, J. Á. G. Ordiano","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3210279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3210279","url":null,"abstract":"The worldwide increase in renewable energy penetration levels has made accuracy, availability, and affordability of wind and solar energy forecasting systems an integral part of the modern power grids. The present paper describes an approach to forecasting one-day-ahead photovoltaic (PV) power generation without the use of numerical weather prediction (NWP) data. The presented approach uses a closed loop non-linear autoregressive artificial neural network (CL-NAR-ANN) model with only the historical generated PV power data as input. In case of emergency, if the communication channel with the weather provider fails, the whole forecasting system runs a risk of failing. Also, purchasing NWP data might be too expensive for smaller utilities. In such situations, NWP data free models can provide cost-effective and reasonably accurate PV power forecasts, which can act as a good backup solution. Furthermore, the model is evaluated using a dataset from the Global Energy Forecasting Competition of 2014 (GEFCom14) and its results are compared to other data-driven models such as polynomial and artificial neural network (ANN) models with and without NWP data as input. The results suggest that the CL-NAR-ANN model delivers acceptable forecasts and outperforms other NWP free models by a margin of 8% in terms of root mean square error, hence supporting the possibility of obtaining acceptable forecasts using the CL-NAR-ANN.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125843653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alban Grastien, Ignaz Rutter, D. Wagner, Franziska Wegner, Matthias Wolf
{"title":"The Maximum Transmission Switching Flow Problem","authors":"Alban Grastien, Ignaz Rutter, D. Wagner, Franziska Wegner, Matthias Wolf","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3208910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3208910","url":null,"abstract":"The Maximum Transmission Switching Flow (MTSF) is the problem of maximizing the power flow of a power grid by switching off lines. This static transmission design problem is known to be NP-hard even on strongly restricted graph classes. In this paper, we study the combinatorial structure of the MTSF problem and its relationship to familiar problems. We tackle the problem by exploiting the structure of the power grid leading to the first algorithms for MTSF having provable performance guarantees. We decrease the theoretical gap not only by developing algorithms with guarantees, but also by proving that the decision problem of MTSF is NP-hard even when the network contains only one generator and one load. In this context, we introduce the Dominating Theta Path, which is an exact algorithm on certain graph structures and can be used as a switching metric in general. Our simulations show that the algorithms provide very good results (in many cases near-optimal) on the NESTA benchmark cases that provide realistic thermal line limits.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128000835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extracting the Full Potential of Voltage","authors":"Rohit Gupta, K. Ramamritham","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3208944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3208944","url":null,"abstract":"Smart meters allow us to track a variety of electrical parameters including voltage. Even though mains voltage is assumed to remain constant, it does vary, albeit within a small range, so the variation is mostly ignored. But we show how the small variations in voltage sensed at different points in the electrical system and the relative variations in voltage values at a certain location can be exploited for better disaggregation of appliance loads, differentiating between appliances, even of the same type, increasing the scope of disaggregation for performing tasks like sub-metering and fault localization. We believe that our solution is a highly practical and simpler alternative to the more involved techniques that require sophisticated algorithms and/or hardware. To top it all, the proposed technique is also general-purpose and cost-effective.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121611782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Validation of a Smart Charging Algorithm for Power Quality Control in Electrical Distribution Systems","authors":"A. Alyousef, Dominik Danner, F. Kupzog, H. Meer","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3212031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3212031","url":null,"abstract":"Electric mobility leads to an increasing challenge for power grid operators, particularly due to its irregular and unknown load profiles. In order to keep up with increasing power demand of charging processes, besides better predictions also the active control of charging processes will be necessary to minimize infrastructure costs. This work deals with a distributed smart charging approach which considers real-time grid conditions for supporting the power quality in electric distribution grids in terms of congestion and voltage management. Our approach adopts the traffic light model to indicate the current state of the low voltage grid, which allows smooth changing of the charging power to avoid drastic changes of the grid state. The algorithm is validated by a series of experiments on two setups: Pure software (co-)simulation and Power Hardware In the Loop (PHIL), where physical charging stations and electric cars are controlled in a laboratory setup.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114925144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Davide Frazzetto, B. Neupane, T. Pedersen, Thomas D. Nielsen
{"title":"Adaptive User-Oriented Direct Load-Control of Residential Flexible Devices","authors":"Davide Frazzetto, B. Neupane, T. Pedersen, Thomas D. Nielsen","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3208924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3208924","url":null,"abstract":"Demand Response (DR) schemes are effective tools to maintain a dynamic balance in energy markets with higher integration of fluctuating renewable energy sources. DR schemes can be used to harness residential devices' flexibility and to utilize it to achieve social and financial objectives. However, existing DR schemes suffer from low user participation as they fail at taking into account the users' requirements. First, DR schemes are highly demanding for the users, as users need to provide direct information, e.g. via surveys, on their energy consumption preferences. Second, the user utility models based on these surveys are hard-coded and do not adapt over time. Third, the existing scheduling techniques require the users to input their energy requirements on a daily basis. As an alternative, this paper proposes a DR scheme for user-oriented direct load-control of residential appliances operations. Instead of relying on user surveys to evaluate the user utility, we propose an online data-driven approach for estimating user utility functions, purely based on available load consumption data, that adaptively models the users' preference over time. Our scheme is based on a day-ahead scheduling technique that transparently prescribes the users with optimal device operation schedules that take into account both financial benefits and user-perceived quality of service. To model day-ahead user energy demand and flexibility, we propose a probabilistic approach for generating flexibility models under uncertainty. Results on both real-world and simulated datasets show that our DR scheme can provide significant financial benefits while preserving the user-perceived quality of service.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"408 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123536976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilizing Device-level Demand Forecasting for Flexibility Markets","authors":"B. Neupane, T. Pedersen, B. Thiesson","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3208922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3208922","url":null,"abstract":"The uncertainty in the power supply due to fluctuating Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has severe (financial and other) implications for energy market players. In this paper, we present a device-level Demand Response (DR) scheme that captures the atomic (all available) flexibilities in energy demand and provides the largest possible solution space to generate demand/supply schedules that minimize market imbalances. We evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of widely used forecasting models for device-level flexibility analysis. In a typical device-level flexibility forecast, a market player is more concerned with the utility that the demand flexibility brings to the market, rather than the intrinsic forecast accuracy. In this regard, we provide comprehensive predictive modeling and scheduling of demand flexibility from household appliances to demonstrate the (financial and otherwise) viability of introducing flexibility-based DR in the Danish/Nordic market. Further, we investigate the correlation between the potential utility and the accuracy of the demand forecast model. Furthermore, we perform a number of experiments to determine the data granularity that provides the best financial reward to market players for adopting the proposed DR scheme. A cost-benefit analysis of forecast results shows that even with somewhat low forecast accuracy, market players can achieve regulation cost savings of 54% of the theoretically optimal.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131727503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Disaggregation for SMEs using Recurrence Quantification Analysis","authors":"Laura Hattam, D. Greetham","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3210280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3210280","url":null,"abstract":"Energy disaggregation determines the energy consumption of individual appliances from the total demand signal, which is recorded using a single monitoring device. There are varied approaches to this problem, which are applied to different settings. Here, we focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and explore useful applications for energy disaggregation from the perspective of SMEs. More precisely, we use recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) of the aggregate and the individual device signals to create a two-dimensional map, which is an outlined region in a reduced information space that corresponds to 'normal' energy demand. Then, this map is used to monitor and control future energy consumption within the example business so to improve their energy efficiency practices. In particular, our proposed method is shown to detect when an appliance may be faulty and if an unexpected, additional device is in use.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131950119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enabling Self-aware Smart Buildings by Augmented Reality","authors":"Muhammad Aftab, Chi-Kin Chau","doi":"10.1145/3208903.3208943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3208903.3208943","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional HVAC control systems are usually incognizant of the physical structures and materials of buildings. These systems merely follow pre-set HVAC control logic based on abstract building thermal response models, which are rough approximations to true physical models, ignoring dynamic spatial variations in built environments. To enable more accurate and responsive HVAC control, this paper introduces the notion of self-aware smart buildings, such that buildings are able to explicitly construct physical models of themselves (e.g., incorporating building structures and materials, and thermal flow dynamics). The question is how to enable self-aware buildings that automatically acquire dynamic knowledge of themselves. This paper presents a novel approach using augmented reality. The extensive user-environment interactions in augmented reality not only can provide intuitive user interfaces for building systems, but also can capture the physical structures and possibly materials of buildings accurately to enable real-time building simulation and control. This paper presents a building system prototype incorporating augmented reality, and discusses its applications.","PeriodicalId":400170,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121003019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}