Monet: An Innovative System to Manage Energy Services

Abstract

The “Mastering and Operate Next generation of Energy of Things” (Monet) is an innovative solution for energy efficiency services. It supports monitoring, controlling and remote management of field devices in order to offer advanced energy management services, towards Active Demand. It is a multi-tenant platform, able to address the needs of multiple stakeholders. Monet can manage third party field devices installed in different areas and connected to internet with the aim to obtain energy monitoring and management. Monet can be also interfaced to other asset management systems and service platforms, in order to exploit a comprehensive set of data and tools. The system has been applied in the Universal Exposition EXPO 2015 in Milano, integrated with the smart grid therein installed, to manage the exposition area as a real smart city. An evolution of the system has been applied in “Smart Recharge Island” (SRI), an innovative microgrid project for the Piedmont region, to manage the generation and the consumption of data in the Environmental Park. The system will be used in Sharing Cities Horizon 2020 funded project, as a complete dashboard for energy building manager and municipality manager. In this paper both the system architecture and concept, and the challenges encountered during the implementation of SRI will be reported as interesting lessons learned in designing a solution for energy efficiency and microgrid load management.