Guest Editors' Introduction: Smart Energy Systems

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Paradiso;Prabal Dutta;Hans Gellersen;Eve Schooler

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab;University of Michigan;Lancaster University;Intel Labs

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The authors suggest that smart energy management will be an important application area for pervasive computing, as the pressing societal need for a solution is clear and there is a close fit with technologies and approaches being developed under the pervasive rubric. They present five full papers, including a comprehensive survey spanning four decades of smart energy research, recent results from a UK study of home-deployed smart energy systems that involved both persuasive media and diverse energy-consumption sensing, nonintrusive load identification and estimation, and minimally intrusive load shedding. A short Spotlight article highlights the need to systematically integrate human management into the complex control schemes that these smart grid schemes will enable.