Smart Home Renewable Energy Management System

TLDR

Smart grids aim to integrate renewable and storage energy resources at the consumption premises. The study designs, implements, and tests an embedded system that integrates solar and storage energy into a smart home. The system installs renewable energy, schedules power flow for peak and off‑peak periods, incorporates a two‑way communication protocol for owner‑utility optimization, and was prototyped and tested on a load‑bank simulating realistic household consumption. Three scenarios were tested, and the results were reported.

Abstract

One of the major attribute of the smart grid is to integrate renewable and storage energy resources at the consumption premises. This paper presents the design, implementation and testing of an embedded system that integrates solar and storage energy resources to a smart home. The proposed system provides and manages a smart home energy requirement by installing renewable energy; and scheduling and arranging the power flow during peak and off-peak period. In addition to that, a two-ways communication protocol is developed to enable the home owner and the utility provider to better optimize the energy flow and the consumption efficiency. A prototype for the proposed system was designed, implemented and tested using a controlled load bank to simulate a scaled random real house consumption behavior. Three different scenarios were tested and the results and findings are reported.