Smart energy services integrated within the arrowhead communication framework

An efficient monitoring system and communication framework for energy usage and consumption monitoring in a microgrid is the basis for any development of energy optimization policies. It also enables costs reduction and fast problem detection. Distributed Smart Energy Meters are becoming more and more useful in commercial, industrial and domestic domains, in particular when they are conceived as low cost architectures and non intrusive. This paper shows how the integration of small ecosystems of energy metering devices within a Service Oriented Architecture framework is the keystone in making a huge set of information available and usable for third party services. Such a concept enables interoperability among different actors and allows the exploitation of data to create complex and efficient collaborating architectures. The case study presented here consists of a non-intrusive smart energy meter as the basic entity integrated within the Arrowhead Communication Framework.