An energy management gateway for facilities based on open middleware

In the European FP7 research project BEAMS (Building Energy Advanced Management System), an advanced and integrated Facility Management System with decentralized hierarchical structure is developed. The system is designed to enhance energy efficiency of facilities and infrastructures of public use and to enable them to provide local and smart grid related energy services by intelligent control and shifting of electric loads and generators (subsystems). Part of the BEAMS system is the so called “interoperability gateway” for monitoring and control of local subsystems. The document at hand presents the development and implementation of the first interoperability gateway prototype as well as an algorithm for scheduling of multiple storage-equipped loads considering boundary conditions as preset operation constraints and peak load limits. The BEAMS system is currently being tested at two sites, namely the campus of the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy and the sporting facility “Camp Nou” of the Futbol Club Barcelona, Spain.