A Glimpse of SmartHG Project Test-bed and Communication Infrastructure

The SmartHG project goal is to develop a suite of integrated software services (the SmartHG Platform) aiming at steering residential users energy demand in order to: keep operating conditions of the electrical grid within given healthy bounds, minimize energy costs, and minimize CO2 emissions. This is achieved by exploiting knowledge (demand awareness) of electrical energy prosumption of residential users as gained from SmartHG sensing and communication infrastructure. This paper describes such an infrastructure along with user demand patterns emerging from the data gathered from ~600 sensors installed in ~40 homes participating in SmartHG test-beds.

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