GECAD-Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development, Polytechnic of Porto (P.PORTO), P-4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Nov 15;18(11):3961. doi: 10.3390/s18113961.
The massive dissemination of smart devices in current markets provides innovative technologies that can be used in energy management systems. Particularly, smart plugs enable efficient remote monitoring and control capabilities of electrical resources at a low cost. However, smart plugs, besides their enabling capabilities, are not able to acquire and communicate information regarding the resource's context. This paper proposes the EnAPlug, a new environmental awareness smart plug with knowledge capabilities concerning the context of where and how users utilize a controllable resource. This paper will focus on the abilities to learn and to share knowledge between different EnAPlugs. The EnAPlug is tested in two different case studies where user habits and consumption profiles are learned. A case study for distributed resource optimization is also shown, where a central heater is optimized according to the shared knowledge of five EnAPlugs.
当前市场上大量智能设备的普及提供了创新技术，这些技术可用于能源管理系统。特别是，智能插头以低成本实现了对电气资源的高效远程监控和控制功能。然而，智能插头除了具有使能功能外，还无法获取和传达有关资源上下文的信息。本文提出了 EnAPlug，这是一种具有环境感知能力的新型智能插头，它具有有关用户使用可控资源的位置和方式的上下文的知识。本文将重点介绍不同 EnAPlugs 之间的学习和共享知识的能力。EnAPlug 在两个不同的案例研究中进行了测试，这些案例研究中学习了用户习惯和消费模式。还展示了一个分布式资源优化的案例研究，根据五个 EnAPlugs 的共享知识对中央供暖进行了优化。
