A Smart Home Services Demonstration: Monitoring, Control and Security Services Offered to the User

The Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) have entered into a Program Agreement for the execution of the research and development lines of General Interest for the national electricity system. In particular, as part of the “Development of an integrated model of the Urban Smart District” project, an experimental demonstration of a Smart Home network has been carried out in the Centocelle district of Rome, called “Centocelle Smart Home”. This project aims to develop a replicable model of Smart Home able to monitor energy consumption, the degree of comfort and safety in residential buildings, transmitting them to a higher level technological platform where data are analyzed and aggregated to provide a series of feedbacks to the user and to the community. The objective is to reduce the final consumption of energy (electric and thermal) of domestic consumers through a path of growth of energy awareness, also providing additional services on security. This paper presents the architecture proposed in the ENEA project for monitoring the energy consumption and increasing the degrees of comfort and safety of domestic users. The proposed security service is presented here together with the developed “Out of Home” App.