Smart DSM: a layered model for development of demand side management in smart grids
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Date
2014
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3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid
Abstract
Growing power demand and carbon emissions is motivating utility providers to introduce smart power systems. One of the most promising technology to deliver cheaper and smarter electricity is demand side management. A DSM solution controls the devices at user premises in order to achieve overall goals of lower cost for consumer and utility. To achieve this various technologies from deferent domains come in to play from power electronics to sensor networks to machine learning and distributed systems design. The eventual system is a large, distributed software system over a heterogeneous environment and systems. Whereas various algorithms to plan the DSM schedule have been proposed, no concerted effort has been made to propose models and architectures to develop such a complex software system. This lack of models provides for a haphazard landscape for researchers and practitioners leading to confused requirements and overlapping concerns of domains. This was observed by the authors in developing a DSM system for their lab and faculty housing. To this end in this paper we present a model to develop software systems to deliver DSM. In addition to the model, we present a road map of software engineering research to aid development of future DSM systems. This is based on our observations and insights of the developed DSM systems.
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Smart grids, software engineering, demand side management, model driven design
Citation
10. Javed, F., Ali, U., Nabeel, M., Khalid, Q., Arshad, N., & Ikram, J. (2014). Smart DSM: a layered model for development of demand side management in smart grids. Paper presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid, ACM New York.