Managing energy consumption of devices is different from several well understood network management functions because of the special nature of energy supply and use. This document explains issues of energy management arising from its special nature and proposes a layered reference model for energy management addressing these issues.

A home automation system basically consists of household appliances linked via a communication network allowing interactions for control purposes (Palensky & Posta, 1997). Thanks to this network, a load management mechanism can be carried out: it is called distributed control in (Wacks, 1993). Load management allows inhabitants to adjust power consumption according to expected comfort, energy p...

Cloud computing has been a champion in Information Technology (IT) world for supporting flexibility on-demand services. It is leveraged to instantly fulfill dynamic demands from heterogeneous environment. However, the massive demand for the Cloud computing services contributed to high energy consumption, thus affecting cost of service and processing components lifetime. Quite a portion of the e...

The electric grid is radically evolving into the smart grid, which is characterized by improved energy efficiency of available resources. The smart grid permits interactions among its computational and physical elements thanks to the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs provide energy management algorithms and allow renewable energy integration and energy price...

existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. According to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

This paper investigates impacts of possible chances in energy policy and consumption behavior on optimal energy management and feasibility study of a hybrid energy system. The study was performed on a remote area near Esfarjan, a village located in Shahreza, Iran. In the main scenario, the current energy policy is applied while the consumption behavior of customers is studied by means of an inc...

Over the years, NoSQL Database Management Systems (DBMS) have been adopted as an alternative to the constraints of relational/SQL DBMSs. In order to demonstrate their feasibility, works have evaluated NoSQL DBMSs regarding some performance metrics, but energy consumption has not been assessed. Indeed, energy consumption is an issue that should not be neglected due to the rise of energy costs an...

abstract i n this paper we investigated total energy consumption and its individual forms (oil, natural gas, electricity, renewable energies and coal) relationship with real gross domestic product (gdp) in iran. we employed hsiao’s (1981) methodology and annual data which cover 1967-2010 for investigation. the empirical findings indicate there is bidirectional causality effect with real gdp and...

objective: drying is one of the most important post-harvesting processes in agriculture. drying method and also drying time have an important effect on the amount of energy required. in this study analysis of energy consumption for drying corn in dryer reservoir with flow of warm air and the effect of the temperature and height of product layer on the amount of energy consumption per unit mass ...

this paper investigates the relationship between total energy consumption and gdp in six countries of the middle east , including iran,pakistan,saudi arabia,oman,bahrain and the united arab emirates. the data are annual and spanning the period 1980-2012.we employed hsiao’s (1981) methodology to examine causality relation between total energy consumption and gdp.the empirical findings show a uni...