An Agent-Based Infrastructure for Energy Profile Capture and Management

Accurately and dynamically monitoring energy usage patterns in households forms a first requirement for more efficient and ecofriendly energy management in the future. Monitored energy usage data can be used by power systems engineering—to inform demand-side management systems in the near future term—and in architecture/civil engineering—where it can be used to carry out long-term studies across populations and sectors to estimate future demand and to evaluate prospective (social) policies. This paper presents an agent based prototype of an architecture to meet these needs. The proposed system remains flexible to new functional requirements and adaptable to new edge devices for data collection, as well as offering the potential to ‘close the loop’ and permit remote control of power supplies to individual appliances. Some preliminary analyses of data collected is used to illustrate what may be possible in the longer term.Multi Actor SystemsTechnology, Policy and Managemen