Adaptive storage battery management based on the Energy on Demand protocol

We proposed the concept of i-Energy [1] as a novel smart demand-side energy management scheme to realize efficient and versatile control of e-power flows among decentralized energy generation/storage devices and appliances in homes, offices, and neighboring communities. To embody the concept, we developed a novel energy management method named Energy on Demand (EoD) for a single power source [3]. This paper proposes an adaptive storage battery management method based on EoD. The novelty of the method rests in the demand-based battery capacity design and dynamic charge/discharge control. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been proved with experiments using real life data in the smart apartment room [5].