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Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator

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  • Filipe Quintal

    (ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal)

  • Daniel Garigali

    (ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Dino Vasconcelos

    (ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jonathan Cavaleiro

    (ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Wilson Santos

    (prsma.com, 9020-105 Funchal, Portugal
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Lucas Pereira

    (ITI, LARSyS, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal
    ITI, LARSyS, Técnico Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract

This paper presents the development and evaluation of EnnerSpectrum, a platform for electricity monitoring. The development was motivated by a gap between academic, fully custom-made monitoring solutions and commercial proprietary monitoring approaches. EnnerSpectrum is composed of two main entities, the back end, and the Gateway. The back end is a server comprised of flexible entities that can be configured to different monitoring scenarios. The Gateway interacts with equipment at a site that cannot interact directly with the back end. The paper presents the architecture and configuration of EnnerSpectrum for a long-term case study with 13 prosumers of electricity for approximately 36 months. During this period, the proposed system was able to adapt to several building and monitoring conditions while acquiring 95% of all the available consumption data. To finalize, the paper presents a set of lessons learned from running such a long-term study in the real world.

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  • Filipe Quintal & Daniel Garigali & Dino Vasconcelos & Jonathan Cavaleiro & Wilson Santos & Lucas Pereira, 2021. "Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-15, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:18:p:5786-:d:635007
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