A Platform for Analysing Huge Amounts of Data from Households, Photovoltaics, and Electrical Vehicles: From Data to Information

Analytics is an essential procedure to acquire knowledge and support applications for determining electricity consumption in smart homes. Electricity variables measured by the smart meter (SM) produce a significant amount of data on consumers, making the data sets very sizable and the analytics complex. Data mining and emerging cloud computing technologies make collecting, processing, and analysing the so-called big data possible. The monitoring and visualization of information aid in personalizing applications that benefit both homeowners and researchers in analysing consumer profiles. This paper presents a smart meter for household (SMH) to obtain load profiles and a new platform that allows the innovative analysis of captured Internet of Things data from smart homes, photovoltaics, and electrical vehicles. We propose the use of cloud systems to enable data-based services and address the challenges of complexities and resource demands for online and offline data processing, storage, and classification analysis. The requirements and system design components are discussed.