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
    2018-11-27
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21791
  • Cloud computing, energy management, internet of things, IoTaaS, smart grids.
  • 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 & Technology, 7(4.16), 120-123. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21791