Architecture of web services interface for a Home Energy Management system

This paper proposes a web-based architecture to enable information retrieval and appliance management for a Home Energy Management (HEM) system. With the proposed architecture, homeowners can monitor their basic energy usage information, and can perform necessary appliance management based on their pre-defined load priority, preferences, and comfort settings. The proposed architecture is designed based on the Standard Energy Usage Information (PAP10), which ensures interoperability among smart grid equipment. It is also designed with comprehensive security measures. It is expected that the proposed architecture can serve as a reference model for custom hardware designs and implementation of a real time, lightweight and reliable embedded web server for HEM applications in the smart grid environment.

[1]  D. W. Bustard,et al.  Deriving a generic energy consumption model for network enabled devices , 2010, 2010 National Conference On Communications (NCC).

[2]  Anthony Rowe,et al.  SAGA: Tracking and Visualization of Building Energy , 2011, 2011 IEEE 17th International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications.

[3]  Xiao Lu,et al.  Machine-to-machine communications for home energy management system in smart grid , 2011, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[4]  José Soler,et al.  A Novel Home Energy Management System Architecture , 2011, 2011 UkSim 13th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation.

[5]  Hiroshi Mineno,et al.  Energy Monitoring System Using Sensor Networks in Residential Houses , 2012, 2012 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops.