[Draft] Home Energy Management

This is a draft of some preliminary ideas and thoughts developed in the past few years. The concept is not yet complete nor solid, so for people who are interested, please feel free to leave comments.

[Intro]
The booming of green energy shows a new trend of energy production and consumption.  Currently there are two major types of usages for green energy: one is by traditional power plant in very large scale; the other is home or portable users using small modules turning solar, and, and kinetic energy to generate electricity.  However, these modules are mostly with low and unstable power output, and hence are difficult to integrate with appliance.

The proposed system is a solution for connecting such small energy generating modules and appliances.  It provides unified interfaces for energy input and output, so the users can extend the number of modules to a certain scale which fit their budget.  The control system is equipped with intelligent algorithms in order to monitor the power input/output, so that it can adjust the circuits between power sources and power sinks for optimized performance.

Further details will be written in a formal document.