Reducing Energy Consumption by Using Smart Metering Intelligent Systems

Abstract

Smart metering is aimed at efficient energy management. Its potential may be revealed using recent advances in machine type communications. This paper presents an approach to design web services for residential power control with prepaid functionality. The reduction in energy consumption is estimated for typical households applying heating control.

Keywords

• smart metering
• heating/cooling control
• payment management
• resource structure
• restful web services