Design and Implementation of an On-Demand Home Power Management System Based on a Hierarchical Protocol

We have designed and implemented an on-demand home power management system for saving electric power consumption reliably and systematically without affecting our Quality of Life. The system is based on protocol hierarchy composed of the request/response layer, the path control layer, and the physical layer. Based on the layered protocol architecture, it becomes possible to treat power allocation, power flow setting, and power transmission separately. This makes the on-demand power management system flexibly extensible. In this paper, we describe a use case of our system for power management at a single home, and show how power is saved with least degradation of the Quality of Life in experiments done in a demonstration house.