Research on Smart Home Energy Management System

Europe is committed to the 20-20-20 targets to reduce carbon emissions and to secure energy supply. Energy efficiency and renewable energy are seen as key to reach these goals. Both measures all for changes in our energy supply system leading to smart grids for the required innovation. The fundamental architecture of networks build in years ago has been developed in most member states to meet the needs of large, predominantly carbon-based generation technologies. But now the networks will have to integrate decentralized and renewable power generation, also with many small suppliers. More flexible transport of power is needed in response to new energy markets and energy trading, and to the trend towards location of bulk generation far from load. The European Commission has taken a number of actions including a mandate on standardization for smart grids issued in 2011. The final customer with small source has a potential to participate on smart grid features and thus should be involved and motivated throughout several motivation stimulus. One of the key features in the smart grid applications is the demand side service offered to designated parties by smart home automation systems. This paper describes the base of home automation systems upon the smart grid reference architecture. The paper also describes the fundamentals on research of Smart Home Energy Management System and demonstrates the idea of its utilization for demand side management on simulation experiment of low voltage grid with distributed sources.