Distributed monitoring for energy consumption optimization in smart buildings

Efficient strategies for energy saving and solutions to increase user awareness on energy resources management are important aspects from both social and economic viewpoints. The traditional power grid needs new monitoring and control tools for the optimal management of producers and consumers through adaptive energy distribution schemes. The problem of energy consumption reduction can be addressed at different scales, ranging from the management of single appliances up to building, district, city level. In this paper, a wireless system architecture for the distributed monitoring and intelligent supervision of energy consumptions is proposed. The energy information related to a multi-user scenario are acquired by distributed wireless sensors and processed by a decision-making support tool aimed at the adaptive optimization of user energy-habits and successive energy cost reduction.