Authors:
Dejan Ilić
;
Stamatis Karnouskos
;
Per Goncalves da Silva
and
Sarah Detzler
Affiliation:
SAP AG, Germany
Keyword(s):
Energy Management, Smart Grid, Facility Management, Energy Forecast, Energy Storage, Energy Trading.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Architectures for Smart Grids
;
Energy and Economy
;
Energy Management Systems (EMS)
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Integration of Smart Appliances
;
Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
;
Real-Time Systems
;
Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
;
Smart Cities
;
Smart Grids
Abstract:
The vision of the Smart Grid empowers a variety of innovative approaches for flexible energy management
that fuse the business goals with the asset monitoring and control offered by the Internet of Things. The facility
management domain can benefit from these advances by building upon Smart Grid energy services thereby
realizing new business opportunities that make the best out of its assets. Due to the increasing integration of
highly dynamic assets in future buildings, short-term deterministic behaviour is difficult. However with the
availability of controlled variable storage, and futuristic services such as energy trading, errors in prediction
can be absorbed internally or traded with the ultimate aim of “making the best” out of the assets and situations.
The latter has the potential to enable facility managers to reach strategic objectives and potentially use assets
more effectively by seizing new business opportunities. In this work we propose an architecture, describe
its key
components and depict in scenarios its usage with the goal of enabling facility management to take
informed business decisions by following enterprise strategies as well as considering the volatility of the
available energy excess or shortage.
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