Energy Management in Smart Spaces through the OPlatform

Energy management, and in particular its optimization, is one of the hot trends in the current days, both at the enterprise level (optimization of whole corporate/government buildings) and single-citizens´ homes. The current trend is to provide knowledge about the micro(scopic) energy consumption. In our work we developed a platform, named OPlatform, for smart environments able to micro-account energy consumption of devices, at the level of each single power line, which allows at the same time the actuation of devices, thus being also an energy-aware domotic solution. After presenting the system architecture, consisting of a distributed system based on several OMeters (specifically designed hardware devices) and an OBox (an embedded PC hosting the software system), we present a preliminary case study, in which the OPlatform has been adopted in a small office, in order to highlight the concrete possible savings.