This academic article appeared in the MDPI journals Sensors in January 2021. The report presents a software-based modular and hierarchical building energy management system (BEMS) to control the power consumption in sensor-equipped buildings. This system is able to aggregate the controls of the all-controllable resources in building to realize its flexible power capacity. The main novelty of this system is that it can handle the heterogeneity of the installed hardware system along with time bound changes in the load device network and its scalability; resulting in low maintenance requirements after deployment.
Keywords: Architecture/Engineering, Association, Connected/ EV Vehicles, Control & Monitoring Equipment/Sensors, Cybersecurity/Privacy, Energy Efficiency/Management, Internet of Things (IoT), Large Building