A Novel IoT-as-a-Service Strategy to Achieve Energy and Cost Saving In Microgrids

  • Authors

    • Maurizio Giacobbe
    • Antonio Puliafito
    • Marco Scarpa
    • Maria Gabriella Xibilia
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21791

    Received date: November 27, 2018

    Accepted date: November 27, 2018

    Published date: November 27, 2018

  • Cloud computing, energy management, internet of things, IoTaaS, smart grids.

  • Abstract

    Smart Grids play a crucial role for always more efficient, flexible and reliable integration of technologies in the electricity marketplace. At the “edge” of Smart Grids, appliances and consumer devices consume electricity by Microgrids. End-users need easily and dynamically accessible electricity marketplace and heterogeneous renewable energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, etc.), in order to satisfy energy needs. This implies two main challenges: 1) managing the variable availability of renewables, mainly due both to variable electricity marketplace conditions and to a not-continuous energy sourcing; 2) managing the energy supply/demand ratio especially in presence of scarcity or surplus conditions in the electrical energy providing service. In this paper the authors propose a novel two-levels Internet of Things-as-a-Service (IoTaaS) strategy to “win” the above-mentioned challenges.

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    Giacobbe, M., Puliafito, A., Scarpa, M., & Gabriella Xibilia, M. (2018). A Novel IoT-as-a-Service Strategy to Achieve Energy and Cost Saving In Microgrids. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(4.16), 120-123. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21791