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Title:
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Lessons learned in building a middleware for smart grids
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Author:
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Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Albano, Michele; Ferreira, Luis Lino; Teixeira, César
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Projectes i de la Construcció; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GRIC - Grup de Recerca i Innovació de la Construcció |
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Abstract:
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Smart grids play an important role in the modernization and optimization of
the existing electrical grid, to accomplish the current European Union Energy
and Climate targets. Smart grids require distributed applications to manage the
grid more efficiently. The performance of the distributed applications impacts
on the communications delay time and on the timely interaction with the
devices located in the users’ Home Area Networks. This paper presents the
results of the ENCOURAGE project related to the development of a software
platform to support smart grids. The work presented in this paper assesses
four different middleware configurations and analyses the results on the delay
performance tests. The results show that the mean end-to-end delay is between
310 ms and 453 ms in proper conditions. In terms of operational costs, the
optimal configuration enables managing houses with less than 0.25 Euros per
month per house. This paper justifies the maturity of the technology to support
smart grids, and the possibility to transfer the ENCOURAGE project results
to the industry. |
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Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
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Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Energia elèctrica
-Smart power grids
-Computer software-- Development
-Smart grid
-Middleware
-Publish/subscribe
-Performance
-Xarxes elèctriques intel·ligents
-Programari -- Desenvolupament |
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Document type:
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Article - Published version
Article |
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Published by:
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River Publishers
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