Abstract
The deregulation of the European energy market, combined with emerging advanced capabilities of information technology, provides strategic opportunities for new knowledge-oriented services on the power grid. HOMEBOTS is the name we have coined for one of these innovative services: decentralized power load management at the customer side, automatically carried out by a 'society' of interactive household, industrial and utility equipment. They act as independent intelligent agents that communicate and negotiate in a computational market economy. The knowledge and competence aspects of this application are discussed, using an improved version of task analysis according to the COMMONKADS knowledge methodology. Illustrated by simulation results, we indicate how customer knowledge can be mobilized to achieve joint goals of cost and energy savings. General implications for knowledge creation and its management are discussed.
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Place of Publication | Enschede, the Netherlands |
| Publisher | Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
Publication series
| Name | CTIT Technical Report Series |
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| No. | 97-04 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1381-3625 |
Keywords
- IR-57058
Cite this
Akkermans, H., Ygge, F., & Gustavsson, R. (1997). HOMEBOTS: Intelligent Decentralized Services for Energy Management. (CTIT Technical Report Series; No. 97-04). Enschede, the Netherlands: Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT).