Local Energy Management Unit for Residential Applications

Authors

  • M. Pérez-Romero University of Extremadura
  • J. Gallardo-Lozano University of Extremadura
  • E. Romero-Cadaval University of Extremadura
  • A. Lozano-Tello University of Extremadura

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.19.7.5164

Keywords:

Electric energy management systems, energy storage, intelligent systems, smart grids

Abstract

Along the coming years, an important increase of the energy consumption in the world is expected, what will lead the energy sector to deal with several challenges such us availability of delivering the demanded energy, increase of the emissions and greenhouse effect. Energy Management Systems are being integrated with domestic and residential applications, which optimize the home energy consumption. The Local Energy Management Unit is presented in this paper that allows an optimized power demand to the Grid. It utilizes different types of communication (by using TCP and X10 protocols) with the aim of obtaining an efficient energy management and allowing a lower power consumption, which lets the user to decrease the cost of the electric invoice. A prototype has been built that shows energy management results. The power demanded from the Grid is kept constant regardless of the house power consumption.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.19.7.5164

Downloads

Published

2013-09-09

How to Cite

Pérez-Romero, M., Gallardo-Lozano, J., Romero-Cadaval, E., & Lozano-Tello, A. (2013). Local Energy Management Unit for Residential Applications. Elektronika Ir Elektrotechnika, 19(7), 61-64. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.19.7.5164

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 7 (2013)

Section

ELECTRONICS

License

The copyright for the paper in this journal is retained by the author(s) with the first publication right granted to the journal. The authors agree to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) agreement under which the paper in the Journal is licensed.

By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, papers are free to use with proper attribution in educational and other non-commercial settings with an acknowledgement of the initial publication in the journal.