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Decentralized Energy-Management to Control Smart-Home <strong>Architecture</strong>s 153<br />

smart-home<br />

management device<br />

(SHMD)<br />

controller<br />

R1<br />

Ø<br />

controller<br />

R4<br />

Ø<br />

data<br />

storage<br />

<strong>in</strong>telligent appliances<br />

controller<br />

R2<br />

Ø<br />

controller<br />

R5<br />

Ø<br />

communication<br />

electrical power<br />

controller<br />

R3<br />

Ø<br />

controller<br />

R6<br />

Ø<br />

low-voltage-grid<br />

Fig. 2. Demonstrat<strong>in</strong>g environment<br />

conventional<br />

appliances<br />

smart<br />

power<br />

meter<br />

chargecontroller<br />

the on-state <strong>of</strong> its connected <strong>in</strong>telligent appliance. In this way, a hierarchically<br />

structured observer/controller architecture, cf. Sect. 4, is used.<br />

In the demonstrat<strong>in</strong>g environment, it is assumed that an electric vehicle is<br />

present <strong>in</strong> the smart-home. For that purpose, a lead-acid storage battery with a<br />

capacity <strong>of</strong> 4 kWh is connected to the smart-home demonstrator. It represents<br />

the mobile energy storage <strong>of</strong> the electric vehicle. The charg<strong>in</strong>g- and discharg<strong>in</strong>g<br />

process is controlled and observed by a special charge controller which is<br />

connected via powerl<strong>in</strong>e to the SHMD.<br />

The SHMD is the central device <strong>in</strong> the scenario presented here. Any relevant<br />

data, like current power-requirement <strong>of</strong> each <strong>in</strong>telligent appliance, the system’s<br />

voltage, or the current total power <strong>of</strong> the smart-home, are collected <strong>in</strong> its<br />

database.<br />

Based on the content <strong>of</strong> the database, a user <strong>in</strong>terface is generated by the<br />

SHMD’s web-server to <strong>in</strong>form the smart-home’s resident about its current condition<br />

and optimization potential. It allows display<strong>in</strong>g and analyz<strong>in</strong>g the powerdata<br />

<strong>of</strong> elapsed time-slots. Furthermore, the web-<strong>in</strong>terface permits the resident to<br />

def<strong>in</strong>e the degrees <strong>of</strong> freedom for each <strong>in</strong>telligent appliance. This value describes<br />

the potential <strong>of</strong> controll<strong>in</strong>g the device’s on-state automatically.<br />

The ma<strong>in</strong> challenge <strong>of</strong> future energy management is balanc<strong>in</strong>g supply and<br />

demand <strong>in</strong> energy grids. Therefore, smart algorithms are needed to schedule the<br />

electrical consumers and especially the car’s charg<strong>in</strong>g process. A large number<br />

<strong>of</strong> decentralized batteries permits to feed electrical energy back <strong>in</strong>to the grid.

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