This academic paper published in the Sensors Journal (July 2021) presents a residential energy management (REM) technique capable of monitoring and controlling residential loads within a smart home. A new distributed multi-agent framework, which is based on the cloud layer computing architecture, is developed for real-time microgrid economic dispatch and monitoring. A system based on the Raspberry Pi microcontroller is implemented to test the proposed framework, which is shown to be capable of effectively tracking load (demand) changes.
Keywords: Architecture/Engineering, Association, Block Chain, Communications, Controls/Sensors, Energy Management, HVAC, Intelligent Building, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Cities, Smart Grid, Utilities