SDN-enabled Smart Building Energy Management for Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Integrated System

To provide a reliable, resilient, cost-effective, and environment friendly energy solution, the hybrid solar-geothermal integrated energy system has shown promises in recent time. By addressing the limitations of conventional nonrenewable energy systems, the combination of solar and geothermal energy can offer a more sustainable, efficient, and secure source of energy for future. However, implementing a building energy management model for a hybrid solar geothermal integrated system poses several issues, such as integration complexity, control strategy complications, optimal resource allocation, data accessibility and reliability, and energy storage challenges. As a result, a centralized controlled, programmable, and robust networking platform is required for hybrid solar-geothermal integrated system. In this regard, software-defined networking (SDN)-based energy management system (EMS) can be employed that can offer programmable, autonomous, and intelligent decision-making features. Therefore, to ensure intelligent harmonize renewable energy sources, optimize energy distribution, and enhance energy efficiency, this paper provides an SDN-enabled smart building EMS for hybrid solar-geothermal integrated system. Additionally, a new robust energy management algorithm is also developed which can dynamically manage the hybrid EMS utilizing the real-time date. Moreover, for evaluating the performance of the SDN-empowered architecture, an investigation based on simulation is executed. which demonstrates that the proposed model is capable of generating 1000 W solar energy as well as the geothermal system provides a daily heat exchange rate of 45.12 W.