Small buildings energy management system based on IEEE1888 standard with data compression

This paper proposes a configuration of Building Energy Management System suitable for managing a group of small buildings, namely Small Buildings Energy Management System (SBEMS). Its communication is based on the IEEE1888 standard. The standard is modified such that the storage can be in the cloud. Data compression is also incorporated in order to reduce the communication cost. To test this idea, all three IEEE1888 components are developed including 6LoWPAN sensor networks, 6LoWPAN gateway with built-in compression proxy and SBEMS application on the Android OS.