Defining a distributed architecture for smart energy aware systems

Abstract

In the past years, energy demand has increased and shifted especially towards electricity as the form of consuming energy. As the number of electric devices constantly grows and energy production must increasingly rely on renewable sources, this leads into noteworthy disparity between electricity production and consumption. This paper describes the results of a joint work between partners in ITEA2 12004 Smart Energy Aware Systems (SEAS) project, which aims towards providing the ICT tools and systems in order to help energy actors better manage and optimize energy consumption, production and storage. This paper presents and studies the innovative IT architecture proposed during this project, SEAS Reference Architecture Model (S-RAM). This architecture relies on four distributed services that enable to interconnect any energy actors and give them the opportunity to provide new energy services. The benefits of S-RAM have been studied on a specific use case, which aims to provide a service for estimating local photovoltaic production. It particularly helps energy management systems better plan electric consumption.