New Smart Home's Energy Management System Design and Implementation for Frugal Smart Cities

Smart home refers to a house in which a number of interconnected devices and home appliances are performing certain actions in order to monitor energy, optimize its usage and thus save money. A smart home represents also a home that satisfies its needs in an intelligent and flexibles ways, responding to the needs and comfort of its dwellers, enabling them to control and manage consumption of their own green energy sources. The aim of this article is to present a cost effective energy management system design and implementation suitable for frugal smart cities and smart villages. The proposed architecture is implemented and tested at our Lab.