Abstract
Energy plays a pivotal role for economic development of a country. A reliable energy source is needed to improve the living standards of people. To achieve such a goal, governments and industries are trying to install a new energy infrastructure called the “Smart Grid”. This helps to manage the electricity generation and distribution in an efficient manner. Buildings and other structures are the biggest consumers of electricity. There is a need to reduce the energy consumption so that the resources can be utilized efficiently. Therefore, in this paper, we give a comprehensive state-of-the-art on various recent techniques and solutions which provide energy savings in smart homes and buildings. This includes statistical models, cloud computing based solutions, fog computing and smart metering based architectures, and several other IoT (internet of things) inspired solutions. We also present a hypothetical model that treats energy supply and usage in buildings as a self-managing energy system (SES). This paper is concluded by highlighting several open issues and challenges related to energy management in buildings.
Highlights
Effective utilization of energy and usage of cleaner energy resources become highly significant due to the scarcity of fossil fuel
This paper is an effort to familiarize readers with several important factors related to energy management in buildings
We have tried to explain the most important research related to energy management in smart environments under one umbrella
Summary
Effective utilization of energy and usage of cleaner energy resources become highly significant due to the scarcity of fossil fuel. Mir et al.: Energy Management in Smart Buildings and Homes dynamic and efficient system for energy distribution and consumption This system shares the information using the sensors and other similar objects for optimizing the performance and achieving energy efficiency. We dig into the recent work in the related area in quite detail This includes highlighting various ‘recent’ smart solutions for energy management in buildings and houses covering the domains of statistical models, cloud and fog computing, smart metering, and several other approaches. To control heavy electric devices such as air conditioners, the proposed SES will use a home area network (HAN) to communicate with the devices and set the usage appropriately This HAN will be designed using the concept of IoT.
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