Butgereit, LSmith, Andrew C2012-06-292012-06-292012-05Butgereit, L and Smith, A. Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation. IST Africa 2012 Conference Proceedings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 9-11 May 2012http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5957IST Africa 2012 Conference Proceedings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 9-11 May 2012The Internet of Things is a new paradigm of more and more physical objects, or “things”, becoming connected to the Internet. As more and more physical objects are enhanced with digital intelligence, the Internet of Things grows. The communication with the objects could be uni-directional. In such cases, the object merely posts a status of itself or updates information about itself on a server. More interesting, however, is when there is bi-directional communication allowing the object to post information about itself and also allowing the object to be controlled by some process. This paper describes a research project in balancing the electrical load in the kitchens of an IT organisation. Ten kitchen appliances were enhanced with digital intelligence and could send back information about electrical consumption. In addition, however, the appliances could be switched on and off depending on certain conditions. This paper would be of interest to any readers who need to balance electrical load due to physical constraints or for financial constraints.enInternet of ThingsIoTLoad balancingElectricity load balancingConference PresentationButgereit, L., & Smith, A. C. (2012). Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5957Butgereit, L, and Andrew C Smith. "Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5957Butgereit L, Smith AC, Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5957 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Butgereit, L AU - Smith, Andrew C AB - The Internet of Things is a new paradigm of more and more physical objects, or “things”, becoming connected to the Internet. As more and more physical objects are enhanced with digital intelligence, the Internet of Things grows. The communication with the objects could be uni-directional. In such cases, the object merely posts a status of itself or updates information about itself on a server. More interesting, however, is when there is bi-directional communication allowing the object to post information about itself and also allowing the object to be controlled by some process. This paper describes a research project in balancing the electrical load in the kitchens of an IT organisation. Ten kitchen appliances were enhanced with digital intelligence and could send back information about electrical consumption. In addition, however, the appliances could be switched on and off depending on certain conditions. This paper would be of interest to any readers who need to balance electrical load due to physical constraints or for financial constraints. DA - 2012-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Internet of Things KW - IoT KW - Load balancing KW - Electricity load balancing LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2012 T1 - Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation TI - Using the internet of things to enable electrical load optimisation UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5957 ER -