Automated demand response for residential consumers

摘要

Demand response activities to mitigate peak and eliminate its drawback are carried out only at large industries or commercial complex. The residential sector is overlooked due to the unavailability of the required architecture and remains unexploited thus possessing great potential. The advent of smart grid technology has bolstered up the importance of residential sector in Demand response. Taking advantage of this fact our paper aims at providing an economical hardware solution to equip residential sector with the architecture required to capitalize on its untouched potential.