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Energy management in buildings can provide massive
benefits in financial and energy saving terms. It is possible
to optimize energy usage with smart grid techniques, where the
benefits are enhanced when the energy consumer can trade the
energy on energy markets, since it forces energy providers to
compete with each other on the energy price. However, two
hurdles oppose this approach: the devices providing control over
appliances do not interoperate with each other; and energy
markets limit trading activities to large quantities of energy, thus
impeding access for small consumers. This work considers using
the FlexOffer (FO) concept to allow the consumer to express its
energy needs, and FO-related mechanisms to aggregate energy
requests into quantities relevant for energy markets. Moreover,
the presented system, named FlexHousing, is based on the
Arrowhead Framework – a framework that simplifies design
and implementation of distributed applications by means of
normalizing communication via services – and exploits its Service
Oriented mechanisms to provide device interoperability. The
implemented FlexHousing system uses multi-level FO aggregation
to empower either the final user, for example the owner of
an apartment, to manage its own energy by defining their
flexibilities, or to offload this responsibility to an energy manager
who takes care of all the apartments in a building or set of
buildings.
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Arrowhead Service Oriented Prosumer Smart Grid Interoperability
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers