Fog as-a-Power Economy Sharing Service
Rasool Bukhsh Nadeem Javaid Asma Rafique
AbstractSmart grid technologies ensures reliability, availability and efficiency of energy which contribute in economic and environmental benefits. On other hand, communities have smart homes with private energy backups however, unification of these backups can beneficial for the community. A community consists of certain number of smart homes (SH) which have their own battery based energy storage system. In this paper, 12 smart communities are connected with 12 fog computing environment for power economy sharing within the community. Each community has 10 smart homes with battery bases energy storage system. These communities are evaluated for load and cost profiles with three scenarios; SHs without storage system, SHs with storage system for individual SH requirements and SHs with unified energy storage system (unified-ESS). Unified-ESS is formed with the help of home and fog based agents. Simulations show that, unfied-ESS is efficient to have reduced cost for SHs within the community.