Modeling for home electric energy management: A review A.M. Vega, F. Santamaria, E. Rivas Engineering Doctorate Program, Research Group GCEM, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Carrera 7N1 40B-53 Piso 5, Bogotá, Colombia article info Article history: Received 26 May 2014 Received in revised form 22 May 2015 Accepted 8 July 2015 Available online 25 August 2015 Keywords: Energy management Smart Grids Domotics Monitoring Protocols abstract In recent decades researchers and companies around the world have developed proposals related to Home Energy Management Systems. This paper presents a review of the most relevant literature published on that subject focused on infrastructure, communication media – protocols, variables managed by the system, software and the role of the end user. For this research, around seventy energy management models were studied, and their main advances and contributions were analyzed. In addition, based on this review and the empties observed on existing home energy management models, a preliminary model is proposed. In the proposal, the main elements of the studied models are grouped and the new model is combined with external variables, which influence the implementation of the management system, to give the end-user its proper role as an active part of the electricity value chain, as a strategy to contribute with home energy efficiency providing new demand patterns. & 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 948 2. Energy management systems .......................................................................................... 949 2.1. Smart Grids management ....................................................................................... 949 2.2. Microgrids management ........................................................................................ 949 3. Home management .................................................................................................. 950 3.1. Domotics .................................................................................................... 950 3.2. Protocols for home energy management ........................................................................... 950 3.3. Smart monitoring for home management .......................................................................... 950 4. Perspectives of home management system Models......................................................................... 951 4.1. Home management models proposed between 1970 and 2011 ......................................................... 951 4.2. Home management models proposed between 2012 and 2014 ......................................................... 953 5. Discussion ......................................................................................................... 955 6. Conclusions ........................................................................................................ 957 Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... 957 References ............................................................................................................. 957 1. Introduction Smart Grids have allowed a changing role of the end user, who goes from being a passive consumer to an active user in the value chain of electric energy. Technological, financial and social changes being developed for providing intelligence to the grid require devices with unified monitoring, measurement and control protocols, which results in making real-time assertive decisions regarding energy demand by the user [1]. To make these strategies work, the user must to participate actively in making decisions on energy consump- tion and own generation. However, this new approach of the electricity sector requires several elements, such as: hardware deployed for the residential and the distribution system level; communication protocols that allow interaction between all actors in the process, including the end-user; and software that allows the control of different variables, which influence the system, and also the implementation of the management strategy. Concepts related to Smart Grid systems, such as Microgrids and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) arise in a complementary Contents lists available at ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/rser Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.023 1364-0321/& 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. E-mail addresses: avegae@udistrital.edu.co (A.M. Vega), fsantamariap@udistrital.edu.co (F. Santamaria), erivas@udistrital.edu.co (E. Rivas). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 52 (2015) 948–959