An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration
This paper presents a software-based modular and hierarchical building energy management system (BEMS) to control the power consumption in sensor-equipped buildings. In addition, the need of this type of solution is also highlighted by presenting the worldwide trends of thermal energy end use in bui...
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author | Dharmendra Sharma Jari Rehu Klaus Känsälä Heikki Ailisto |
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description | This paper presents a software-based modular and hierarchical building energy management system (BEMS) to control the power consumption in sensor-equipped buildings. In addition, the need of this type of solution is also highlighted by presenting the worldwide trends of thermal energy end use in buildings and peak power problems. Buildings are critical component of smart grid environments and bottom-up BEMS solutions are need of the hour to optimize the consumption and to provide consumption side flexibility. This system is able to aggregate the controls of the all-controllable resources in building to realize its flexible power capacity. This system provides a solution for consumer to aggregate the controls of ‘behind-the-meter’ small loads in short response and provide ‘deep’ demand-side flexibility. This system is capable of discovery, status check, control and management of networked loads. The main novelty of this solution is that it can handle the heterogeneity of the installed hardware system along with time bound changes in the load device network and its scalability; resulting in low maintenance requirements after deployment. The control execution latency (including data logging) of this BEMS system for an external control signal is less than one second per connected load. In addition, the system is capable of overriding the external control signal in order to maintain consumer coziness within the comfort temperature thresholds. This system provides a way forward in future for the estimation of the energy stored in the buildings in the form of heat/temperature and use buildings as temporary batteries when electricity supply is constrained or abundant. |
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spelling | doaj.art-f9c74ef12c464b38846bb9424070d6b92023-12-03T15:01:48ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-01-0121386710.3390/s21030867An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based OrchestrationDharmendra Sharma0Jari Rehu1Klaus Känsälä2Heikki Ailisto3VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570 Oulu, FinlandVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570 Oulu, FinlandVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570 Oulu, FinlandVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570 Oulu, FinlandThis paper presents a software-based modular and hierarchical building energy management system (BEMS) to control the power consumption in sensor-equipped buildings. In addition, the need of this type of solution is also highlighted by presenting the worldwide trends of thermal energy end use in buildings and peak power problems. Buildings are critical component of smart grid environments and bottom-up BEMS solutions are need of the hour to optimize the consumption and to provide consumption side flexibility. This system is able to aggregate the controls of the all-controllable resources in building to realize its flexible power capacity. This system provides a solution for consumer to aggregate the controls of ‘behind-the-meter’ small loads in short response and provide ‘deep’ demand-side flexibility. This system is capable of discovery, status check, control and management of networked loads. The main novelty of this solution is that it can handle the heterogeneity of the installed hardware system along with time bound changes in the load device network and its scalability; resulting in low maintenance requirements after deployment. The control execution latency (including data logging) of this BEMS system for an external control signal is less than one second per connected load. In addition, the system is capable of overriding the external control signal in order to maintain consumer coziness within the comfort temperature thresholds. This system provides a way forward in future for the estimation of the energy stored in the buildings in the form of heat/temperature and use buildings as temporary batteries when electricity supply is constrained or abundant.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/3/867smart building automationenergy optimizationenergy flexibilityaggregatornetworked energy resourcesbuilding energy management system |
spellingShingle | Dharmendra Sharma Jari Rehu Klaus Känsälä Heikki Ailisto An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration Sensors smart building automation energy optimization energy flexibility aggregator networked energy resources building energy management system |
title | An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration |
title_full | An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration |
title_fullStr | An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration |
title_full_unstemmed | An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration |
title_short | An Automatic Aggregator of Power Flexibility in Smart Buildings Using Software Based Orchestration |
title_sort | automatic aggregator of power flexibility in smart buildings using software based orchestration |
topic | smart building automation energy optimization energy flexibility aggregator networked energy resources building energy management system |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/3/867 |
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