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The scope of this paper is restricted to energy-consumption management of a building. Hence, the problem we are addressing is how to reduce energy consumption by using smart decisions based on well informed management. Our vision to the energy consumption is analogous to the leaky bucket problem. Before start filling the holes of the bucket, we need to learn the big picture of the leaky bucket including the number of holes, their respective sizes, their locations, etc. Accordingly, learning the energy-consumption system of a building is a mandatory phase before taking any decision to tune, upgrade or take any remedial action on the energy system. Concisely, our proposal aims at controlling and processing the operation of energy consumption of a building on real-time basis. The goal of such a control is to provide real-time information on electricity consumption at different levels. It is a monitoring operation that gives feedback and shows a visual big picture of what is going on in a building in term of energy consumption. To achieve our goal, we propose an architectural framework for energy consumption control and smart management.
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Bouktif, S., Ahmed, W.K. (2014). Monitoring Framework for Cost-Effective Energy Consumption in a Building. In: Hamdan, M., Hejase, H., Noura, H., Fardoun, A. (eds) ICREGA’14 - Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05708-8_18
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