Renewable Energy Management Using Embedded Smart Systems

Abstract

This paper highlights the implementation possibility of automated embedded systems for energy management into insular clusters of homes or off-grid buildings that can harness multiple renewable energy sources. As the embedded technologies and the Internet of Things concept are starting to merge stronger and faster from one year to another, we can ow acknowledge the new possibilities for energy efficiency and energy harvesting that are becoming mainstream. Traditional worldwide companies that provides IT&C services and electronic products solutions, have now a mature portofolio for IoT data communication and devices automation. In this respect, Cisco predicted that by the year 2020, at least 50 billions of devices will share a common communication network, thus any electronic device will be able to communicate with another in an automated manner. If by this time we were talking about the “Internet of People”, where people communicated with other people, now the paradigm have changed into the “Internet of Things” which enables devices communicate with other devices. To no surprise, this is a natural evolutionary step that aims to minimise the human efforts, accelerate information transmission, processing and execution, optimise and correct human errors and even provide the best alternatives to complicated problems by the help of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Regarding the energy sector, these smart systems have the purpose of providing energy efficiency, components compatibility, low carbon footprint and further exploit the renewable energies potential to a higher degree by hybridization.