Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator
This paper presents the development and evaluation of EnnerSpectrum, a platform for electricity monitoring. The development was motivated by a gap between academic, fully custom-made monitoring solutions and commercial proprietary monitoring approaches. EnnerSpectrum is composed of two main entities...
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| author | Filipe Quintal Daniel Garigali Dino Vasconcelos Jonathan Cavaleiro Wilson Santos Lucas Pereira |
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| description | This paper presents the development and evaluation of EnnerSpectrum, a platform for electricity monitoring. The development was motivated by a gap between academic, fully custom-made monitoring solutions and commercial proprietary monitoring approaches. EnnerSpectrum is composed of two main entities, the back end, and the Gateway. The back end is a server comprised of flexible entities that can be configured to different monitoring scenarios. The Gateway interacts with equipment at a site that cannot interact directly with the back end. The paper presents the architecture and configuration of EnnerSpectrum for a long-term case study with 13 prosumers of electricity for approximately 36 months. During this period, the proposed system was able to adapt to several building and monitoring conditions while acquiring 95% of all the available consumption data. To finalize, the paper presents a set of lessons learned from running such a long-term study in the real world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4072e1150e04651affc02bdd173e6572023-11-22T12:52:57ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732021-09-011418578610.3390/en14185786Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World DemonstratorFilipe Quintal0Daniel Garigali1Dino Vasconcelos2Jonathan Cavaleiro3Wilson Santos4Lucas Pereira5ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, PortugalITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, PortugalITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, PortugalITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugalprsma.com, 9020-105 Funchal, PortugalITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, PortugalThis paper presents the development and evaluation of EnnerSpectrum, a platform for electricity monitoring. The development was motivated by a gap between academic, fully custom-made monitoring solutions and commercial proprietary monitoring approaches. EnnerSpectrum is composed of two main entities, the back end, and the Gateway. The back end is a server comprised of flexible entities that can be configured to different monitoring scenarios. The Gateway interacts with equipment at a site that cannot interact directly with the back end. The paper presents the architecture and configuration of EnnerSpectrum for a long-term case study with 13 prosumers of electricity for approximately 36 months. During this period, the proposed system was able to adapt to several building and monitoring conditions while acquiring 95% of all the available consumption data. To finalize, the paper presents a set of lessons learned from running such a long-term study in the real world.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/18/5786electricity monitoringcase studylong-termprototypingretrofittingplatform |
| spellingShingle | Filipe Quintal Daniel Garigali Dino Vasconcelos Jonathan Cavaleiro Wilson Santos Lucas Pereira Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator Energies electricity monitoring case study long-term prototyping retrofitting platform |
| title | Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator |
| title_full | Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator |
| title_fullStr | Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator |
| title_short | Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator |
| title_sort | energy monitoring in the wild platform development and lessons learned from a real world demonstrator |
| topic | electricity monitoring case study long-term prototyping retrofitting platform |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/18/5786 |
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