Arduino based Autonomous Energy Mana- gement of a Micro-Grid using Multi Agent System

The objective of this paper is to develop Arduino based Multi Agent System (MAS) for advanced demand side management of a solar micro-grid. High penetration of renewable energy resources needs new coordination and control approaches to meet the stochastic nature of the environment and dynamic loadings. We use Multi Agent System for advanced distributed, autonomous energy management of the micro-grid to dynamically and fl exibly adapt to the changes in the environment. We consider a micro-grid which contains two solar Photo Voltaic (PV) system, local consumer, and a battery. We develop a simulation model in Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) for dynamic energy management, which choose the best possible action every hour to stabilize and optimize the solar micro-grid. Furthermore, environment variables are sensed through Arduino microcontroller and given to agents of MAS. The resulting actions are refl ected in the LED out puts which can be readily deployed in the actual fi eld.