An Energy Management System with Edge Computing for Industrial Facility

Abstract

With the development of industry, the consumption of industrial electricity is increasing, reducing the cost of electricity has become an urgent problem to be solved. Meanwhile, remote monitoring of connected devices and the intelligence pushed to the edges of the monitoring devices becomes critical in industrial IoT (IIoT). How to design the energy management mechanism that can respond to the change of electricity price in time is the main problem we are facing at present. This paper proposes an energy management architecture based on edge computing for industrial facility, which introduces edge computing into the factory energy management scenes. Under this architecture, an energy management mechanism based on edge computing is proposed. Finally, the proposed mechanism is tested, and the test shows that the mechanism can reduce the electricity cost of the factory.