Cooperative System and Scheduling Algorithm for Sustainable Energy-Efficient Communities

Abstract

The High connectivity among devices within the Internet-of-Things facilitates two-way flow of information throughout the infrastructure reaching homes and the consumers targeting broader energy goals. Our proposal encompasses consumers cooperating in response to utility supply conditions, i.e., electricity available from renewable sources. Such a smart and green community of consumers autonomously adapts its energy consumption by enabling a local aggregator to (1) integrate their demand into a common view and, (2) re-schedule the community demand given the renewable energy supply and the consumers’ demand time preferences. In this paper, we evaluate the developed scheduling algorithm using benchmark data to validate our proposal implementation over existent technology.