Blockchain-based Fog-enabled Energy IoT Architecture
AUTHORS
You-jin Song,Dept. Information Management, Dongguk University at Gyeongju Campus, Korea
Jae-Kyu Lee,Dept. Techno-Management Cooperation Course, Dongguk University at Gyeongju Campus, S. Korea
ABSTRACT
Recently, the paradigm of the power industry has been digitizing around renewable energy. While this shift is accelerating towards energy-information and communications technologies (ICT) convergence, there will be many changes in energy policy in the future. In particular, in terms of energy demand management, locally centered decentralization will take place, and microgrid-type virtual power plants will be built on a regional basis according to the activation of distributed energy resources (DER) including renewable energy. To this end, business models such as electricity trading aggregation should also be considered. In this paper, we design an energy blockchain transaction architecture that combines blockchain and the energy Internet of Things (IoT) in a virtual power plant environment. The system presented in this paper can be integrated with a control system that requires DER and intermediary trading through an intermediary using web-based software. In addition, it is possible to promote the activation of energy brokerage transactions by preparing an environment for efficient trading by collecting a large amount of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) information in a fog server.
KEYWORDS
Energy IoT, Blockchain, Smart contract, Energy cloud, Fog computing
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