Energy Monitoring Solution for SMEs

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Research Advances ISSN 2054-3743
Publisher	Future Technology Press
Vol. 7	Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020 - Short papers

Article Title	Energy Monitoring Solution for SMEs
Primary Author	Ruth Ande, School of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
Other Author(s)	Bamidele Adebisi; Mohammad Hammoudeh; Augustine Ikpehai
Pages	10 - 19
Article ID	seb20s-008
Publication Date	26-Nov-20
Abstract	The complexity and high cost of building retrofitting for improved energy performance can be overwhelming for many SMEs. Tailor-made frameworks, are therefore, required to deliver long term energy reduction benefits, for relatively small commercial buildings. This paper presents a low cost energy monitoring and reporting solution for SMEs, which includes a system architecture, a baseline data generation strategy that significantly reduces the retrofitting timeline and a sensor network strategy that incorporates existing ICT infrastructure and minimises the number of IoT sensors. The system reports the energy monitoring data to building users in real time in an easy to understand format allowing building users to quickly analyse the affect of changes in their energy behaviour, encouraging them to try different low cost energy reduction strategies, before choosing more expensive solutions.
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