In the last decades, the evolution of technologies for the smart home enabled users to control the electrical usage of system and appliances. However, despite the widespread of IoT solutions, there is a poor integration between electrical utilities and products or services. This is mainly due to disaggregation of electrical data and the lack of interoperability between actors. These weaknesses bring to a non-supervised electrical “last mile” and poor awareness of detailed users’ electrical consumption.

This work aims to introduce the concept of Smart Home Grid showing a first model with four main goals: gather data and extract usage patterns; improve the user experience by supporting the users through an electrical usage information system; share the usage between actors; push Energy-as-a-Service models for sustainability.

Authors: Paolo Perego, Gregorio Stano