Automation systems to support smart energy behaviour of small customers

Recently several events occurred in the energy scenario, among these EU confirmed its policy against climate change and liberalization of EU power market reached fully completion. Both these events brought to a change not only for industries but also for small final users who found themselves revising their role from passive customers to active consumer. To get the most advantage from this opportunity it is necessary to provide a platform which is interoperable with home and building automation systems and allows to achieve a global energy optimisation in residential and tertiary buildings. This paper describes CESI RICERCA's activity for the development and testing of such a platform in order to reach global energy optimisation and to allow households becoming active "nodes" of the electric network.