Towards Cost-Effective Utility Business Models - Selecting a Communication Architecture for the Rollout of New Smart Energy Services

Toni Goeller, Marc Wenninger, Jochen Schmidt
2018 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems  
The IT architecture for meter reading and utility services is at the core of new business models and has a decisive role as an enabler for resource efficiency measures. The communication architecture used by those services has significant impact on cost, flexibility and speed of new service rollout. This article describes how the dominant system model for meter reading came about, what alternative models exist, and what trade-offs those models have for rollout of new services by different
more » ... olders. Control of a self learning home automation system by dynamic tariff information (Real-Time-Pricing) is given as an application example.
doi:10.5220/0006759202310237 dblp:conf/smartgreens/GoellerWS18 fatcat:qxyklorzn5atvgckhtcfnd3leu