Design and implementation of a universal smart energy management gateway based on the Internet of Things platform

Energy management has become one urgent research issue. Regarding the home environment, an energy management cloud can collect home consumption usage and then supports remote control and schedule the status of home appliances. In order to increase the interoperability, this paper proposes a universal smart energy management gateway based on an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) platform called Iotivity. Therefore, the energy management cloud can be extended to monitor and manage Iotivity-compatible devices.