Optimizing energy costs for offices connected to the smart grid

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2273-2285

  Georgievski, Ilche ^a   Degeler, Viktoriya ^a   Pagani, Giuliano Andrea ^a   Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^a   Lazovik, Alexander ^a   Aiello, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Demand response; energy monitoring; intelligent building; pervasive systems; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COST OF OPERATIONS; DEMAND-RESPONSE; DYNAMIC ENERGY PRICING; ECONOMIC SAVINGS; END USERS; ENERGY MONITORING; LIVING LAB; MONITOR AND CONTROL; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; OPTIMIZING ENERGY; PERVASIVE SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE GENERATION; SMART GRID;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84872054209     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2218666     Document Type: Article

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