The Management System of INTEGRIS. Extending the Smart Grid to the Web of Energy

Abstract

The recent growth experimented by the Internet has fostered the interaction of many heterogeneous technolo-gies under a common environment (i.e., the Internet of Things). Smart Grids entail a sound example of suchsituation where several devices from different vendors, running different protocols and policies, are integratedin order to reach a common goal: bring together energy delivery and smart services. Latest advances onthis domain have led to effective architectures that support this idea from a technical perspective, but fail atproviding powerful tools to assist this new business model. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to present anovel unified and ubiquitous management interface, driven by an intelligent system, that uses the advantagesfeatured by the Web of Things to manage the Smart Grid. Therefore, this work opens a new path between theInternet of Things and the Web of Things resulting in a new concept coined as the Web of Energy.