Integration of Sensor Network and Energy Management System in Home and Regional Community Environments

Decreasing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the urgent issues that mankind is facing to. So far energy management systems (EMS) have been installed into a factory environment and good results have been obtained. In this paper, we propose to integrate sensor network systems and EMS to adapt to a heterogeneous home environment and to expand EMS enhanced by information and communication technologies to the level of regional community. Our proposal consists of four phases. A prototype development of the sensor network-based power monitoring and controlling system is presented to prove the effects of the first and second phases. Also two study cases are presented to support the third and forth phases of the proposed system.