ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the employment of information and communication technology in the smart grid for pervasive energy management. It discusses a brief introduction to the objectives and challenges of the smart grid and draws on the pervasive energy management applications as one of the enabling technologies for low-carbon economies. The chapter also focuses on the power sector where pervasive communications will play a significant role. Pervasive communications enable the adoption of energy management applications in the daily routine of consumers, while making them personalized and available anywhere/anytime. Managing the use of local resources requires pervasive computing solutions for home owners where they can manage their energy profile from anywhere and at any time. Energy management is closely coupled with activity recognition, which is studied extensively in the context of pervasive computing. The Internet of things (IoT) is one of the enabling technologies of pervasive computing, and the IoT is possible with platform-independent mechanisms such as web services.
